Venus

n. second planet from the sun; goddess of love (Roman Mythology)

n. female first name; family name; town in Texas (USA)

VENUS is an acronym for the Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea. The VENUS project is operated out of the University of Victoria and is an advanced cabled sea floor observatory, consisting of fibre optic cables connecting oceanographic instruments on the sea floor of the Pacific Ocean off the coast British Columbia to a dedicated shore-station. The first array of sub-sea instruments is in Saanich Inlet. A second array will be installed in the Strait of Georgia in the fall of 2007. Data from the sub-sea instruments are retrieved in real time and stored at the University of Victoria where the data (including images and audio) are processed and made available to researchers and the public through the VENUS website. Visit us on-line any-time, full-time.
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Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. It is the brightest natural object in the night sky, except for the Moon, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6. Because Venus is an inferior planet, from Earth it never appears to venture far from the Sun: its elongation reaches a maximum of 47.8°. Venus reaches its maximum brightness shortly before sunrise or shortly after sunset, for which reason it is often called the Morning Star or the Evening Star.
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Noun
1. the second nearest planet to the sun; visible as an early `morning star' or an `evening star'; rotates slowly clockwise (in the opposite direction from the normal rotation of the planets); "before it was known that they were the same object the evening star was called Venus and the morning star was called Lucifer"
(hypernym) inferior planet
(member-holonym) solar system
2. goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite
(synonym) Urania
(hypernym) Roman deity
3. type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells
(synonym) genus Venus
(hypernym) mollusk genus
(member-holonym) Veneridae, family Veneridae
(member-meronym) quahog, quahaug, hard-shell clam, round clam, Venus mercenaria, Mercenaria mercenaria

n. venus, second planet from the sun; goddess of beauty and love (Roman mythology)

n. Venus, second planet from the sun; goddess of love (Roman Mythology)

v. come; reach, arrive; attain, achieve