Definition of titania Titania
/tʌtɑˈnjʌ/ - [tutanyu] - ti•ta•ni•a
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What does titania mean?
WordNet
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| titania - (Middle Ages) the queen of the fairies in medieval folklore | ||
| fay, sprite, faerie, faery, fairy a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers | ||
| folklore the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture | ||
| titania - a white powder used as a pigment for its high covering power and durability | ||
| titanium dioxide, titanium oxide, titanic oxide | ||
| pigment dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.) | ||
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Wiktionary 
- titania (Noun)
titanium dioxide .
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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titania
tī-tā′ni-a, n. the queen of Fairyland, wife of Oberon. [L., applied to Diana.]
Wikipedia 
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moon
Titania is the biggest moon of Uranus and the eighth biggest moon in the Solar System.
Discovery.
Titania was found on January 11, 1787 by William Herschel. He reported it and Oberon the same year. He later reported four more moons, which turned out to be spurious.
Name and pronunciation.
The names of Titania and the other four moons of Uranus then known were suggested by Herschel's son John Herschel in 1852 at the request of William Lassell, who had found Ariel and Umbriel the year before. Lassell had earlier supported Herschel's 1847 naming scheme for the seven then-known moons of Saturn and had named his newly-found eighth moon Hyperion in accordance with Herschel's naming scheme in 1848.
All of the moons of Uranus are named for characters from Shakespeare or Alexander Pope. Titania was named after Titania, the Queen of the Faeries in "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
Shakespeare's character's name is pronounced, but the moon is often pronounced, by analogy with the familiar chemical element titanium.
It is also designated Uranus III.
Physical characteristics.
So far the only close-up images of Titania are from the "Voyager 2" probe, which photographed the moon during its Uranus flyby in January, 1986. At the time of the flyby the southern hemisphere of the moon was pointed towards the Sun so only it was studied.
Although what its interior is made up of is uncertain, one model suggests that Titania is made of about 50% water ice, 30% silicate rock, and 20% methane-related organ
Part of speech
🔤- titania, noun, singular of titanias.
