Aries

(âr'ēz, âr'ē-ēz')

1. A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere near Taurus and Pisces.
2. 1. The first sign of the zodiac in astrology.
   2. pl., Aries. One who is born under this sign.

[Middle English, zodiacal sign Aries, from Latin ariēs, ram, zodiacal sign Aries.]

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The Ram, in astronomy, a zodiacal and autumnal constellation (see illustration). Among the 12 zodiacal constellations, Aries was considered as the first, because about 2000 years ago when the zodiacal constellations were organized, the Sun was in Aries where it crossed the equator at vernal equinox. Today, because of the precession of the equinoxes, this reference point has moved into the constellation Pisces. However, Aries remains the first sign of the zodiac. See also Constellation.

Line pattern of constellation Aries. Grid lines represent the coordinates of the sky. Apparent brightness, or magnitudes, of stars are shown by sizes of the dots, which are graded by appropriate numbers as indicated.

Translation software from HP that runs on Itanium computers. It allows PA-RISC applications originally written for HP 9000 computers to run natively on Itanium computers running HP's Unix (HP-UX) operating system. Aries provides a way to run legacy applications "as is" before they can be recompiled into native Itanium programs.

Aries interprets PA-RISC instructions one at a time until it finds a code block that is executed a certain number of times. It then converts that code block into native IA-64 instructions and executes the native block the next time it is required. When the program is closed, the IA-64 code is discarded. See Itanium.

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• Signs of the Zodiac - Aries: the Ram, a constellation between Pisces and Taurus and first sign of the zodiac; the cardinal fire sign and birth sign of persons born between March 21st and April 19th

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Aries may refer to:

• Aries (astrology)
• The first point of Aries (astronomy)
• Aries (constellation)
• Aries (rocket)
• Dodge Aries, an automobile
• EP-3E Aries / Aries II, an reconnaissance aircraft
• Aries Motorsport, a British kit car manufacturer
• Aries (album), a studio album made by Luis Miguel.
• Aries (comics)
• Algorithms for Recovery and Isolation Exploiting Semantics, algorithm designed to work with a no-force, steal database approach
• the species name for domestic sheep, Ovis aries
• Aries (mobile suit), a mecha from the Gundam Wing anime
• Aries Spears, comedian
• Ariès, French automobile
• Philippe Ariès (1914-1984), French historian and medievalist
• Apache Aries, a Blueprint Container implementations and extensions of application-focused specifications defined by OSGi Enterprise Expert Group
• Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, a research institute in India
• Aries, the journal of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism

See also

• Arieş (disambiguation)
• Aeris (disambiguation)
• AIRES, Colombian airline
• Ares, Greek god of war
• Arius, founder of Arianism
• Eros, Greek god of lust

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - Vædderen, Vædderens tegn

Nederlands (Dutch)
Ram in dierenriem, ram

Français (French)
n. - (Astron) Bélier

Deutsch (German)
n. - Widder

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (αστρον., αστρολ.) Κριός

Italiano (Italian)
Ariete

Português (Portuguese)
n. - Áries (f) (Astr.) (Astrol.)

Русский (Russian)
Овен

Español (Spanish)
n. - Aries, Carnero

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - Väduren

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
白羊座, 白羊宫

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 白羊座, 白羊宮

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 양자리, 백양궁

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 牡羊座, 牡羊座生まれの人

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) برج الحمل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מזל טלה‬

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