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CALLISTO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Callisto mean?
• CALLISTO (noun)
The noun CALLISTO has 1 sense:
1. the second largest of Jupiter's satellites
Familiarity information: CALLISTO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The second largest of Jupiter's satellites
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
Galilean; Galilean satellite (one of the four satellites of Jupiter that were discovered by Galileo)
Context examples
The other moons are Jupiter's Europa and Callisto and Saturn's Titan and Enceladus.
(Ganymede may harbor 'club sandwich' of oceans and ice, NASA)
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