Definition of metis Metis
/mɛˈtɪs/ - [metis] - Me•tis
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What does metis mean?
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| metis - a person in western Canada who is of Caucasian and American Indian ancestry | ||
| mixed-blood a person whose ancestors belonged to two or more races | ||
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Wiktionary 
- metis (Noun)
A person of mixed European and Aboriginal descent. Often uncapitalized. - metis (Noun)
Practical intelligence; street smarts .
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- metis (n. f.)
Alt. of Metisse
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Metis is the goddess of wisdom in Greek mythology. She is one of the Titans and is the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. She was the mother of Athena.
There is also a moon named after Metis.
Athena's Birth.
There are many stories about Athena's birth. In Hesiod's "Theogony", Zeus had sex with Metis, but was then scared of her having a child becase a prophecy had said that Metis would have children who were more powerful then Zeus. To try and stop Metis having a child, Zeus changed her into a fly and then swollowed her. However, Zeus was too late and Metis was already pregnant.
When she was inside Zeus, Metis made a helmet and a robe for her baby. The hammering noise caused Zeus to have a headache. To try and help Zeus with the pain, Prometheus, Hephaestus, Hermes, or Palaemon (depending on the myth) cut his head open with a Minoan axe. Athena then came out of Zeus's head. She was fully grown and had her armour on. -
moon
Metis or, is Jupiter's closest moon.
Metis was found in 1979 by Stephen P. Synnott in images taken by the Voyager 1 probe. Its designation was. In 1983 it was named after the mythological Metis, a Titaness who was the first wife of Zeus (the Greek equivalent of Jupiter).
Metis not a sphere and measures 60×40×34 km across. The composition and mass of Metis are not known, but assuming that its mean density is like that of Amalthea (~0.86 g/cm³), its mass can be estimated as ~7×1016 kg. Amalthea's density implies that that moon is composed of water ice with a porosity of 10-15%, and Adrastea may be similar.
The surface of Metis is very cratered. It is dark and appears to be reddish in color.
Orbit.
Metis is the closest moon to Jupiter. It orbits Jupiter at a distance of ~128,000 km. Its orbit has very small eccentricity (~0.0002) and inclination (~ 0.06°) relative to the equator of Jupiter.
Exploration.
The images taken by "Voyager 1" showed Metis only as a dot, and very little was know about Metis until the arrival of the "Galileo" spacecraft. "Galileo" took pictures of almost all of the surface of Metis and put constraints on its composition. -
reggae artist
Metis (born March 28, 1984) is a Japanese reggae singer. She is from Hiroshima. She has released one album, "ONE LOVE". Her most famous song is "Umehasaitaka Sakurahamadakaina".
Part of speech
🔤- metis, noun, singular of metisses.
