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n. A fictional winged stag.
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The peryton is a magical beast from the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.
In radio astronomy perytons are short radio signals having a duration of a few milliseconds, detected only by the 64-meter Parkes radio telescope in Australia since 1998. They are named after the Peryton, a mythical creature by novelist Jorge Luis Borges.
Perytons were found to be the result of premature opening of microwave oven doors at the Parkes Observatory.
The peryton is a mythical creature with features of a stag and a bird.
Peryton may also refer to:
- Peryton (Dungeons & Dragons), a creature in Dungeons & Dragons
- Peryton (astronomy), a type of Fast Radio Burst that was found to originate in microwave ovens
Usage examples of "peryton".
Bhaal learned of the defeat of his flock as the surviving perytons came circling back to the well, and his rage caused deep cracks and gaping fissures to explode throughout the land, tearing still further at the wasteland of the vale.
He heard the hissed reports of his perytons as they flew to and from the well.
The perytons, gliding in eerie silence, flew from throughout the vale to gather at the Darkwell.
The perytons, too, shifted and flapped in agitation but remained around the well.
To be sure, the bath had been drawn from Flowers and fruits, but a mutated variety from Peryton that had to pass for the real thing, for absent, too, were the Pollinators, those shaggy little beasts critical to the Flowers' reproductive cycle.
If we're going to read from the Book we may need something to buy us time, to hold off the things that'll come with it, the perytons and the cabs.