What is "titania"

n. (context chemistry English) titanium dioxide

1. n. a white powder used as a pigment for its high covering power and durability [syn: titanium dioxide, titanium oxide, titanic oxide]

2. (Middle Ages) the queen of the fairies

Titania is the largest of the moons of Uranus and the eighth largest moon in the Solar System at a diameter of . Discovered by William Herschel in 1787, Titania is named after the queen of the fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Its orbit lies inside Uranus's magnetosphere.

Titania consists of approximately equal amounts of ice and rock, and is probably differentiated into a rocky core and an icy mantle. A layer of liquid water may be present at the core–mantle boundary. The surface of Titania, which is relatively dark and slightly red in color, appears to have been shaped by both impacts and endogenic processes. It is covered with numerous impact craters reaching up to in diameter, but is less heavily cratered than the surface of Uranus's outermost moon, Oberon. Titania probably underwent an early endogenic resurfacing event which obliterated its older, heavily cratered surface. Titania's surface is cut by a system of enormous canyons and scarps, the result of the expansion of its interior during the later stages of its evolution. Like all major moons of Uranus, Titania probably formed from an accretion disk which surrounded the planet just after its formation.

Infrared spectroscopy conducted from 2001 to 2005 revealed the presence of water ice as well as frozen carbon dioxide on the surface of Titania, which in turn suggested that the moon may have a tenuous carbon dioxide atmosphere with a surface pressure of about 10 nanopascals (10 bar). Measurements during Titania's occultation of a star put an upper limit on the surface pressure of any possible atmosphere at 1–2 mPa (10–20 nbar).

The Uranian system has been studied up close only once, by the spacecraft Voyager 2 in January 1986. It took several images of Titania, which allowed mapping of about 40% of its surface.

Titania is a fictional character, a comic book faerie published by DC Comics. She first appeared in The Sandman #19 (September 1990), and was created by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess. She is inspired by and implied to be the same as Titania as the faerie queen in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, .

Titania is a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. In the play, she is the queen of the fairies. Due to Shakespeare's influence, later fiction has often used the name "Titania" for fairy queen characters.

In traditional folklore, the fairy queen has no name. Shakespeare took the name "Titania" from Ovid's Metamorphoses, where it is an appellation given to the daughters of Titans.

Shakespeare's Titania is a very proud creature and as much of a force to contend with as her husband Oberon. She and Oberon are engaged in a marital quarrel over which of them should have the keeping of an Indian changeling boy. This quarrel is the engine that drives the mix ups and confusion of the other characters in the play. Due to an enchantment cast by Oberon's servant Puck, Titania magically falls in love with a "rude mechanical" (a labourer), Nick Bottom the weaver, has been given the head of a donkey by Puck, who feels it is better suited to his character. It has been argued that this incident is an inversion of the Circe story. In this case the tables are turned on the character, and rather than the sorceress turning her lovers into animals, she is made to love a donkey after Bottom has been transformed.

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Titania is a ballet in one act, choreographed by Marius Petipa to music by Cesare Pugni, first presented by the Imperial Ballet on November 18/30 ( Julian/ Gregorian calendar dates), 1866 for the Imperial court at the theatre of the Mikhailovsky Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Titania Hotel is a 4 star historic hotel in the center of Athens, Greece. It is located on Panepistimiou Street, in the heart of the historical and commercial centre of the Greek capital, between the two major squares, Syntagma and Omonoia. Titania has been renovated in 2004 and 2007, is decorated with Pentelic marble, and exquisite inlaid mosaics with themes from Greek history. Titania has two of the largest conference centers in central Athens, the "Europa" and "Ouranos", hosting numerous congresses and conventions every year. It includes the restaurants Vergina, La Brasserie and Olive Garden.

Titania (Mary MacPherran), is a supervillainess appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is notable for being one of Marvel's strongest human female characters, and the wife of the Absorbing Man. She was created by then-Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter and was introduced in the 1984 crossover limited series Secret Wars. Titania became a rival of the She-Hulk. She has also been a member of several incarnations of the Masters of Evil and the Frightful Four.

MacPherran is the second Marvel supervillainess to use the name. The first Titania (Davida DaVito) was a female wrestler and member of The Grapplers who was murdered by the Scourge of the Underworld. Upon DaVito's resurrection, her powers were expanded and she took the name Lascivious, as MacPherran had become much more strongly identified with the name Titania.

Titania is the Queen of the Fairies in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Titania may also refer to:

In science:

• Titania (moon), the largest moon of the planet Uranus
• 593 Titania, an asteroid
• The common name of the chemical compound titanium dioxide

Places:

• Titania (Hotel), in Athens, Greece
• A titanium mine in Sokndal, Norway
• Titania Peak, a rock peak on Alexander Island, Antarctica

Ships of the oceans:

• USS Titania (AKA-13), a U.S. Navy Arcturus-class attack cargo ship, commissioned in 1942

• , a number of ships with this name

• Fairey Titania, a class of sailing yacht built by Fairey Marine Ltd.

In fiction:

• Titania (DC Comics), a DC Comics character
• Titania (Grapplers), a Marvel Comics supervillain, now known as Lascivious
• Titania (She-Hulk), a Marvel Comics supervillain, the alter ego of Mary MacPherran
• Titania (Fire Emblem), a Paladin in the game Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
• Titania (Dungeons & Dragons), a fey deity in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
• Titania (Gargoyles), Oberon's wife in the Disney TV series Gargoyles
• The main computer of the titular spaceship in the PC adventure game Starship Titanic
• The character 'Asuna' in Alfheim Online; from the anime "Sword Art Online".
• A demon from the game Shin Megami Tensei and its sequels
• A kingdom in the game Odin Sphere
• The alias of Erza Scarlet in the manga Fairy Tail
• A planet in the Lylat System in the Star Fox Series
• A poem by the Swedish poet Gustaf Fröding
• A song by the Swedish band Mando Diao