n. | 1. | A shield or protective armor; - applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection. |
Noun | 1. | aegis - kindly endorsement and guidance; "the tournament was held under the auspices of the city council" Synonyms: auspices, protection |
2. | ![]() Synonyms: breastplate, egis |
1. | (operating system) | AEGIS - A Unix variant that was used on Apollo workstations before Apollo was bought by Hewlett Packard. AEGIS has some advantages over standard BSD or System V Unix. It includes faster file access and a richer command set; there are commands to find out which process is running on a particular node, which process is locking a particular file, etc. | |
2. | (programming, tool) | Aegis - A CASE tool for project change management, from the GNU project. |