IO


Meaning of IO in English

/uy"oh, ee"oh/ , n.

1. Class. Myth. a woman who, being loved by Zeus, was transformed into a white heifer and was, at the wish of Hera, first guarded by Argus and later pursued through the world by a gadfly until she reached Egypt, where she resumed her true shape: identified by the Egyptians with Isis.

2. Astron. a large volcanically active moon of the planet Jupiter.

/uy"oh, ee"oh/ , n. , pl. Ios .

See Io moth .

Symbol, Chem.

ionium.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .