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What (who) is Colossus - definition
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Colossus (statue); Colossi; Colossus (rollercoaster); Colossus (Roller Coaster); Colossos; Colossus (roller coaster); Colosus; Collossus; Colossī; Collosus; Colossus (disambiguation); Colossus (album)
colossus
n.
Gigantic statue.
colossus
(colossi)
1.
If you describe someone or something as a colossus, you think that they are extremely important and great in ability or size. (JOURNALISM)
...saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins...
He became a colossus of the labour movement.
= giant
N-COUNT: usu sing, oft N of n [emphasis]
2.
A colossus is an extremely large statue.
N-COUNT
Colossus
(A huge and ancient statue on the Greek island of Rhodes).
1. <computer> The Colossus and Colossus Mark II computers used
by Alan Turing at Bletchley Park, UK during the Second
World War to crack the "Tunny" cipher produced by the Lorenz
SZ 40 and SZ 42 machines. Colossus was a semi-fixed-program
vacuum tube calculator (unlike its near-contemporary, the
freely programmable Z3).
["Breaking the enemy's code", Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum,
September 1987, pp. 47-51. ]
2. The computer in the 1970 film, "Colossus: The Forbin
Project". Forbin is the designer of a computer that will run
all of America's nuclear defences. Shortly after being turned
on, it detects the existence of Goliath, the Soviet
counterpart, previously unknown to US Planners. Both
computers insist that they be linked, whereupon the two become
a new super computer and threaten the world with the immediate
launch of nuclear weapons if they are detached. Colossus
begins to give its plans for the management of the world under
its guidance. Forbin and the other scientists form a
technological resistance to Colossus which must operate
underground.
{The Internet Movie Database
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177) }.
(2007-01-04)
Wikipedia
Colossus
Colossus, Colossos, or the plural Colossi or Colossuses, may refer to:
Examples of use of Colossus
1. Ariel Sharon had become a colossus of the country‘s politics.
2. Presidents aren‘t powerful enough to steer this colossus.
3. "On the side, one can also do something of permanent value." Colossus There is also a three–page letter from another colossus of 20th century physics, Erwin Schrödinger, dated spring 1'46.
4. Those papers were used, in conjunction with a set of 1'45 photographs, to rebuild Colossus.
5. Maybe it was Colson Whitehead, author of the literary hymn, The Colossus of New York.