What is "stentor"

Stentor \Sten"tor\, n. [L. Stentor, Gr. ?.]

1. A herald, in the Iliad, who had a very loud voice; hence, any person having a powerful voice.

2. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to the genus Stentor and allied genera, common in fresh water. The stentors have a bell-shaped, or cornucopia-like, body with a circle of cilia around the spiral terminal disk. See Illust. under Heterotricha.

3. (Zo["o]l.) A howling monkey, or howler.

n. 1 A person with a powerful or stentorian voice. 2 Any protozoan of the genus ''Stentor''. 3 A part of the amplification system of a carillon. 4 A howler monkey.

1. n. a speaker with an unusually laoud voice

2. the mythical Greek warrior with an unusually loud voice who died after losing a shouting contest with Hermes

3. any of several trumpet-shaped ciliate protozoans that are members of the genus Stentor

In Greek mythology, Stentor ( Greek: Στέντωρ; gen.: Στέντορος) was a herald of the Greek forces during the Trojan War. He is mentioned briefly in Homer's Iliad, in which Hera tells Stentor to encourage the Greeks to fight; Homer says his "voice was as powerful as fifty voices of other men".

Elsewhere, Stentor is said to have died after losing a shouting contest with Hermes.

Stentor's story is the origin of the term " stentorian", meaning loud-voiced, for which he was famous. Aristotle uses the concept in his Politics Book 7, Chapter IV saying, "For who can be the general of such a vast multitude, or who the herald, unless he have the voice of a Stentor?"

Stentor is a figure from Greek mythology.

Stentor can also refer to:

• 2146 Stentor, asteroid
• Stentor Alliance, alliance of telecommunications companies in Canada
• Stentor (genus), genus of protozoa
• Armstrong Siddeley Stentor, liquid-fuelled rocket engine used in the Blue Steel missile
• The Stentor, student-run newspaper at Lake Forest College
• Stentor, a PACS in the US Health industry.
• Stentor has also been used in organs for a type of very loud flue stop, and for a department of such stops as in the "Stentor Division" in the Wanamaker Organ.

Stentor, sometimes called trumpet animalcules, are a genus of filter-feeding, heterotrophic ciliate protists, representative of the heterotrichs. They are usually horn-shaped, and reach lengths of two millimeters; as such, they are among the biggest known extant unicellular organisms. They reproduce asexually through binary fission.