What is a TITAN?

Answer 1

1. Classical Mythology. a. any of the sons of Uranus and Gaea, including Coeus, Crius, Cronus, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Oceanus.
b. Also, Ti·tan·ess. any of the sisters of these, including Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Rhea, Tethys, Themis, and Thia.
c. any of the offspring of the children of Uranus and Gaea.

2. the Titan, Helios.
3. Astronomy. one of the moons of Saturn.
4. (usually lowercase) a person or thing of enormous size, strength, power, influence, etc.: a titan of industry.
5. Military. a two-stage, liquid-fueled U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile in service since the late 1950s and designed for launch from underground silos.


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Answer 2

Fookin gave a great and full answer.

All I can add is that in the mythology the TITANs were considered to be even more powerful then the gods.

Answer 3

A titan was believed to be an gigantic protector of the gods from mount Olympus protector of the gods!!!

Answer 4

Also a very large travelling crane with specialised lifting gear for the accurate positioning of large blocks in the construction of harbours, breakwaters and the like. Usually called "blocksetting crane". Nice photograph below.

Answer 5

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(astronomy) [tiytn] Saturn's largest satellite, discovered in 1655 by Huygens; distance from the planet 1 222 000 km/759 000 mi; diameter 5150 km/3200 mi; orbital period 15·945 days. It is the second-largest moon in the Solar System, and the only satellite with a substantial atmosphere, principally composed of nitrogen and methane with a surface pressure greater than Earth's atmosphere. It was approached closely by Voyager 1, but global haze cover prevented observation of the surface.




Titan, in Greek religion and mythology, one of 12 primeval deities. The female Titan is also called Titaness. The Titans—six sons and six daughters—were the children of Uranus and Gaea. They were Kronos, Iapetus, Hyperion, Oceanus, Coeus, Creus, Theia, Rhea, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys, and Themis. The name Titan was sometimes applied also to their descendants, such as Prometheus, Atlas, Hecate, Selene, and Helios. The Titans, led by Kronos, deposed their father and ruled the universe. They were in turn overthrown by the Olympians, led by Zeus, in the battle called the Titanomachy. Zeus freed from Tartarus the Cyclopes and the hundred-handed giants, the Hecatoncheires, to aid him in the war. The Cyclopes forged Hades' helmet of darkness, Poseidon's trident, and Zeus' thunderbolts. With these weapons Zeus and his brothers were able to defeat the Titans. After the struggle Zeus sent Kronos to rule the Isle of the Blessed and condemned Atlas to bear the sky on his shoulders. Prometheus (and, in some myths, Oceanus and Themis), because he sided with Zeus, was allowed to remain on Olympus, but all the other Titans were condemned to Tartarus.




Titan, in astronomy, the largest of the named moons, or natural satellites, of Saturn. Also known as Saturn VI (or S6), Titan is 3,200 mi (5,150 km) in diameter, orbits Saturn at a mean distance of 759,209 mi (1,221,830 km), and has equal orbital and rotational periods of 15.9454 earth days. Titan was discovered by the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens in 1655. Titan was thought to be the largest satellite in the solar system until recently, when it was recognized that estimates of its size had included its thick atmosphere. Titan's solid surface is slightly smaller than that of Ganymede, the largest of Jupiter's satellites. Titan is composed of about half water ice and half rocky materials. It probably consists of several layers, with a 2,100 mi (3,400 km) rocky center surrounded by several layers of different forms of crystal ice. The solid surface is surrounded by an atmosphere consisting mostly of molecular nitrogen with small amounts of methane, ethane, and other hydrocarbons. This thick, opaque atmosphere prevents the surface from being seen in visible light, although some surface detail has been observed via the Hubble Space Telescope using infrared light; one prominent feature seen in this way is c.2,500 mi (4,000 km) across, about the size of the Australian continent. Titan is the only natural satellite in the solar system with a significant atmosphere, although a much thinner one has been detected around Triton, a satellite of Neptune. Titan's atmosphere was first detected spectroscopically by the Dutch-American astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper in 1944. Titan forms a satellite pair with Hyperion; that is, the two moons interact gravitationally. In 2004 the space probe Huygens, which had been carried to Saturn by Cassini, landed on Titan and returned photographs of its surface.


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Answer 6

A mythological creature born of the Greek gods and a human much like myself

Answer 7

A Nissan full-size truck.

Answer 8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan

Answer 9

I may be close to genius but I'm bright enough to realise that the gil above has got it all. I prostrate myself to her infinite knowledge