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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tethys \Te"thys\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? an oyster, or ? a kind of ascidian.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of a large naked mollusks having a very large, broad, fringed cephalic disk, and branched dorsal gills. Some of the species become a foot long and are brilliantly colored.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
name for the sea that anciently lay between Eurasia and Africa-Arabia, coined 1893 by German geologist Eduard Suess (1831-1914), from Tethys, name of a Greek sea goddess, sister and consort of Oceanus.
Wikipedia
Tethys can refer to:
- Tethys (mythology), a Titaness in Greek mythology
- Tethys (moon), a natural satellite of Saturn
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Tethys Ocean, a Mesozoic-era ocean between the continents of Gondwana and Laurasia
- Proto-Tethys Ocean (c. 550–330 Ma)
- Paleo-Tethys Ocean (c. 445–75 Ma)
- Neotethys Ocean (c. 300–100 Ma)
- Alpine Tethys Sea (c. 175–30 Ma) or Paratethys Sea (isolated after 34 Ma); today's Black Sea, Caspian Sea, and Aral Sea are remnants of the Paratethys Sea
- Tethys (gastropod), genus of gastropods in the family Tethydidae
- Tethys Research Institute, a non-governmental scientific organisation based in Italy
- Tethys, Japanese name for "Thetis", a boss character in Mega Man ZX Advent
- Tethys (database), an online knowledge management system about the environmental effects of offshore renewable energy
In Greek mythology, Tethys (; ), was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, and the wife of her brother Titan Oceanus, and the mother by him of the river gods and the Oceanids. Tethys had no active role in Greek mythology, and no established cults.
Tethys (or Saturn III) is a mid-sized moon of Saturn about across. It was discovered by G. D. Cassini in 1684 and is named after the titan Tethys of Greek mythology.
Tethys has a low density of 0.98 g/cm, the lowest of all the major moons in the Solar System, indicating that it is made of water ice with just a small fraction of rock. This is confirmed by the spectroscopy of its surface, which identified water ice as the dominant surface material. A small amount of an unidentified dark material is present as well. The surface of Tethys is very bright, being the second-brightest of the moons of Saturn after Enceladus, and neutral in color.
Tethys is heavily cratered and cut by a number of large faults/ graben. The largest impact crater, Odysseus, is about 400 km in diameter, whereas the largest graben, Ithaca Chasma, is about 100 km wide and more than 2000 km long. These two largest surface features may be related. A small part of the surface is covered by smooth plains that may be cryovolcanic in origin. Like all other regular moons of Saturn, Tethys formed from the Saturnian sub-nebula—a disk of gas and dust that surrounded Saturn soon after its formation.
Tethys has been approached by several space probes including Pioneer 11 (1979), Voyager 1 (1980), Voyager 2 (1981), and multiple times by Cassini since 2004.
Tethys (http://tethys.pnnl.gov) is an online knowledge management system that provides the marine renewable energy (MRE) and offshore wind (OSW) energy communities with access to information and scientific literature on the environmental effects of devices. Named after the Greek titaness of the sea, the goal of the Tethys database is to promote environmental stewardship and the advancement of the wind and marine renewable energy communities. The website has been developed by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in support of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Wind and Water Power Technologies Office. Tethys hosts information and activities associated with two international collaborations known as Annex IV and WREN, formed to examine the environmental effects of marine renewable energy projects and wind energy projects, respectively.
Usage examples of "tethys".
Now a great belt of semiarid scrub spread around the old track of the Tethys, across North America, southern Eurasia, and northern Africa.
New oceans would be born in a great cross shape: Eventually the Atlantic would separate the Americas from Africa and Eurasia, while the mighty equatorial Tethys would separate Europe and Asia from Africa, India, Australasia.
They were facing the mighty Tethys Sea, which had forced its way westward between the separating continental blocks.
India and Africa were both migrating north, but for now the Tethys Sea still girdled the equator, a mighty current that spread warmth around the belly of the planet.
But as the continents closed, the Edenic flow of the Tethys was doomed, though fragments of the shrinking ocean would survive as the Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas, and in the west as the Mediterranean.
In fact, he was not very far from the place where a clever dinosaur called Listener, long ago, had stood at the shore of Pangaea and gazed out on the mighty Tethys Sea.
But if Listener had seen the birth of the Tethys, Capo was witnessing something like its death.
As the ocean levels dropped, this last fragment of the Tethys had become dammed at Gibraltar.
River Tethys and to know why I now knew that the old man was far gone into senility.
The River Tethys had been a less-traveled route, but still important for bulk commerce and the countless pleasure boats that had floated effortlessly from world to world on the single highway of water.
The River Tethys had changeable connections, and any data about the next world on the line has evidently been lost to us.
They had levitation barges then, but not everyone going down the Tethys would have been in one.
The portals are the same as the ones along the remnants of the Tethys today, but who is to say that the TechnoCore did not have other portals .
As an ex-bargeman, I cursed my stupidity for letting us be out here in the middle of such a wide river -- the Tethys had opened up to the better part of a klick wide again -- without lightning rod or rubber mats.
The Mare Infinitus segment of the Tethys will be omitted from the tour if inclement weather or dangerous sea-life conditions prevail.