ICARUS

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• ICARUS (noun)
  The noun ICARUS has 1 sense:

1. (Greek mythology) son of Daedalus; while escaping from Crete with his father (using the wings Daedalus had made) he flew too close to the sun and the wax melted and he fell into the Aegean and drowned

  Familiarity information: ICARUS used as a noun is very rare.

• ICARUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Greek mythology) son of Daedalus; while escaping from Crete with his father (using the wings Daedalus had made) he flew too close to the sun and the wax melted and he fell into the Aegean and drowned

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

mythical being (an imaginary being of myth or fable)

Domain category:

Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)

 Context examples 

By combining the strength of this gravitational lens with Hubble’s exquisite resolution and sensitivity, astronomers can see and study Icarus.

(Hubble Uncovers the Farthest Star Ever Seen, NASA)

In the case of Icarus, a natural “magnifying glass” is created by a galaxy cluster called MACS J1149+2223.

(Hubble Uncovers the Farthest Star Ever Seen, NASA)

They also used Icarus to test one theory of dark matter, and to probe the make-up of a foreground galaxy cluster.

(Hubble Uncovers the Farthest Star Ever Seen, NASA)

More than halfway across the universe, an enormous blue star nicknamed Icarus is the farthest individual star ever seen.

(Hubble Uncovers the Farthest Star Ever Seen, NASA)