Crossword clues for tyche
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
goddess of fortune, Latinized form of Greek Tykhe, literally "fortune."
Wikipedia
Tyche (; from , meaning "luck"; Roman equivalent: Fortuna) was the presiding tutelary deity that governed the fortune and prosperity of a city, its destiny. She is the daughter of Aphrodite and Zeus or Hermes.
In literature, she might be given various genealogies, as a daughter of Hermes and Aphrodite, or considered as one of the Oceanids, daughters of Oceanus and Tethys, or of Zeus. She was connected with Nemesis and Agathos Daimon ("good spirit").
The Greek historian Polybius believed that when no cause can be discovered to events such as floods, droughts, frosts or even in politics, then the cause of these events may be fairly attributed to Tyche.
Tyche may refer to:
- Tyche, an ancient Greek goddess
- 258 Tyche, an asteroid
- Tyche (hypothetical planet), a gas giant planet in our outer Solar System, now disproven.
- Tyche, a suburb of the city of Syracuse, Sicily
thumb|upright=1.3|An artist's rendering of the Oort cloud and the Kuiper belt (inset)
Tyche is a hypothetical gas giant located in the Solar System's Oort cloud, first proposed in 1999 by astrophysicists John Matese, Patrick Whitman and Daniel Whitmire of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. They argued that evidence of Tyche's existence could be seen in a supposed bias in the points of origin for long-period comets. More recently, Matese and Whitmire re-evaluated the comet data and noted that Tyche, if it existed, would be detectable in the archive of data that was collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope. In 2014, NASA announced that the WISE survey had ruled out any object with Tyche's characteristics, indicating that Tyche as hypothesized by Matese, Whitman, and Whitmire does not exist.
Usage examples of "tyche".
Natanel Tyche, SFPI, looked across the dining table at the two people Galcen had sent him to collect.
CC1 Ennys Pardu, on the other hand, was looking directly at Tyche with a challenging expression.
Infantry captain, possibly the way his appearance managed to combine wholesome square-jawed blandness with an impression of knife-edged efficiency, suggested to Bandur that there was more to Tyche than met the eye.
He kept on walking toward the vacuum-tight door, not looking back to see if Tyche followed.
A quick glance downward before he started working the opening mechanism showed the warrant officer that Tyche had come on after him, along with both members of the security alert team.
Bandur pushed the hatch cover up until it locked, then scrambled through with Tyche and the two crewmen close behind him.
The Street of the Faithful Protector sported a statue of Tyche where it branched from a roundabout.
Republic, on Kiin-Aloq in the Ontimi sector, Captain Natanel Tyche, SFPI, was also in receipt of a new set of orders.
Unlike some of the orders Tyche had gotten in the course of his career, these proved upon inspection to be quite simple.
The commander was doing paperwork in his office when Tyche knocked on the open door and strolled in.
Captain Natanel Tyche for an undetermined period were entirely genuine.
Nicomedia he might encounter some person who would recognize him, a priest of the far-flung confraternity of Ma or Tyche, or some Sinopean visitor.
Alustriel breathed a prayer to Tyche as she bumped her shins into her little side table, stumbled, and caught herself on it with both hands.
During this time of turmoil, the goddess of luck, Tyche, split into two lesser fragments-Tymora and Beshaba-with the two lesser goddesses representing good and bad luck, respectively.
It was definitely known that they had come to bear away the great image of Tyche and bring eternal honour to Musides, so their reception by the proxenoi was of great warmth.