What is "raptor"

Raptor \Rap"tor\ (r[a^]p"t[~e]r), n. [L. raptor, from rapere to ravish. See Rapid.] A ravisher; a plunderer. [Obs.]

c.1600, "ravisher, abductor," from Latin raptor "a robber, plunderer, abductor, ravisher," agent noun from past participle stem of rapere "to seize" (see rapid). Ornithological use is from 1873 (1823 in Latin plural Raptores).

Etymology 1 n. 1 A bird of prey. 2 (context obsolete English) One who ravishes or plunders. Etymology 2

n. (lb en informal paleontology) One of the dromaeosaurs, a family of carnivorous dinosaurs having tearing claws on the hind legs.

n. any of numerous carnivorous birds that hunt and kill other animals [syn: bird of prey, raptorial bird]

RAPTOR (Reconnaissance Airborne Pod Tornado) is a reconnaissance pod used by the Royal Air Force on its fleet of Tornado GR.4A and GR.4 aircraft. RAPTOR is manufactured by the Goodrich Corporation, now part of UTC Aerospace Systems.

The RAPTOR contains a DB-110 reconnaissance sensor, an imagery data recording system and an air-to-ground data link system. The sensor is electro-optical and infrared, allowing day or night missions. The data link allows imagery to be exploited almost instantly.

Raptor is a steel inverted roller coaster designed by Bolliger & Mabillard at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. When built in 1994, it broke many records and held many firsts when it opened. Instead of having a short layout designed to fit into a compact area like Batman: The Ride, Raptor was designed with a larger, 3,790-foot (1,160 m) layout, making it the tallest, fastest and longest inverted roller coaster in the world when it opened. It features six inversions, including a cobra roll, a first for inverted roller coasters. At its opening, it was the largest investment in Cedar Point history. The ride is themed as a bird of prey.

Raptor, in comics, may refer to:

• Raptor (Marvel Comics), three different characters
• Raptor (G.I. Joe), a falconer for Cobra
• Raptor, a very aggressive member of XTNCT

Raptor is a 1993 historical novel written by Gary Jennings.

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Raptor is the name of three fictional characters in the Marvel Comics' universe. The first Raptor appeared Avengers West Coast as a minor villain, and is a mutant. The second Raptor appeared in the Spider-Girl series in the alternative future MC2 universe. She is the daughter of the criminal Blackie Drago (the second person to use the identity of Vulture). The third Raptor (chronologically speaking, the second) appears in the The Amazing Spider-Man. He is a former college professor named Damon Ryder, who joined dinosaur genes with his own DNA, transforming him into a human/lizard hybrid.

Raptor (also known as Carnosaur 4: Raptor) is a 2001 direct-to-video horror film directed by Jim Wynorski. It often reuses stock footage from the three Carnosaur films and follows the same basic premise of cloned dinosaurs running amok. It is the unofficial sequel to Carnosaur 3: Primal Species.

RAPTOR is protein threading software used for protein structure prediction. It has been replaced by RaptorX, which is much more accurate than RAPTOR.

Raptor is the first member of a family of cryogenic methane-fueled rocket engines under development by SpaceX. It is specifically intended to power high-performance lower and upper stages for SpaceX super-heavy launch vehicles. The engine will be powered by liquid methane and liquid oxygen (LOX), rather than the RP-1 kerosene and LOX used in all previous Falcon 9 rockets, which use Merlin 1C & D engines. Earlier concepts for Raptor would have used liquid hydrogen (LH) fuel rather than methane.

The Raptor engine will have several times the thrust of the Merlin 1D vacuum engine that powers the second stage of the current Falcon 9, the Falcon 9 Full Thrust. The broader Raptor concept "is a highly reusable methane staged-combustion engine that will power the next generation of SpaceX launch vehicles designed for the exploration and colonization of Mars". According to Elon Musk, this design will be able to achieve full reusability (all rocket stages) and, as a result, "a two order of magnitude reduction in the cost of spaceflight".

The engine development from 2009 to 2015 was funded exclusively by private investment by SpaceX, and not as a result of any funding from the US government. In January 2016, SpaceX did agree with the US Air Force to take in defense department funding in order to develop a prototype of a new upper-stage variant of the Raptor engine — designed for potential use as an upper stage on Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy—with SpaceX agreeing to fund at least on the same upper-stage development project, on a minimum 2:1 private-to-government funding basis.

As of August 2016, the first full-scale Raptor engine has been shipped to Texas where it will undergo development testing.

Raptor is a bipedal robot which was designed and conceived in 2014 by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ( KAIST). It has a top speed of 28.58 miles per hour, making it the second fastest robot after the Cheeath, and the fastest bipedal robot worldwide. Designers at the KAIST took their inspiration from the Velociraptor, a bipedal dinosaur which balances itself with its tail. The robot moves itself with a pair of carbon / epoxy composite blade legs.

Raptor is a graphical authoring tool created by Martin C. Carlisle, Terry Wilson, Jeff Humphries and Jason Moore. The software is hosted and maintained by US Air Force Academy professor Martin Carlisle.

The software allows students to write and execute programs using flowcharts. It is typically used in academics to teach introductory programming concepts.