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Hyperion

Syllabification: (Hy·pe·ri·on)
Pronunciation: /hīˈpi(ə)rēən/

Astronomy
Definition of Hyperion
  • a satellite of Saturn, the sixteenth closest to the planet, discovered in 1848. It has an irregular shape, with a diameter of 159 miles (255 km).

Origin:

named after a Titan of Greek mythology

Hyperion in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of Hyperion in the British & World English dictionary
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