In Greek mythology, Proteus ( Πρωτεύς ) is an early sea-god, one of several deities whom Homer calls the " Old Man of the Sea ".

Proteus ' name suggests the " first " ( from Greek " πρῶτος "-protos, " first "), as protogonos ( πρωτόγονος ) is the " primordial " or the " firstborn ".

Proteus of Egypt is mentioned in an alternate version of the story of Helen of Troy in the tragedy Helen of Euripides ( produced in 412 BC ).

The play's king ( never seen ) is only marginally related to the " Old Man of the Sea " and should not be confused with the sea god Proteus.

Proteus is the name of the submarine in the original story by Otto Klement and Jay Lewis Bixby, which became the basis for the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage and Issac Asimov's novelization.

John Barth's novelette " Menelaiad " in Lost in the Funhouse is built around a battle between Proteus and Menelaus.

Because of the great diversity of forms found in this group, the Proteobacteria are named after Proteus, a Greek god of the sea, capable of assuming many different shapes, and it is therefore not named after the genus Proteus.

* Krista Reese, The Name of This Book is Talking Heads ( London: Proteus Books, 1982 ).

Silver-footed Thetis ( Ancient Greek: ), disposer or " placer " ( the one who places ), is encountered in Greek mythology mostly as a sea nymph or known as the goddess of water, one of the fifty Nereids, daughters of the ancient one of the seas with shape-shifting abilities who survives in the historical vestiges of most later Greek myths as Proteus ( whose name suggests the " first ", the " primordial " or the " firstborn ").

Proteus is the largest irregularly shaped moon.

It is likely, however, that Merrick suffered from the very rare Proteus syndrome.

The father of Phrygian Dymas is given as one Eioneus, son of Proteus, by some ancient mythographers ( scholiasts on Euripides ).

Mr. Boyer works for Proteus and is a member of Kiwanis.

Image: Proteus ( Voyager 2 ). jpg | Proteus also 400km is non-spherical

Haydon-Baillie is the owner of the super yacht Brave Challenger and uses the same Rolls-Royce Proteus Marine engines as the SRN4s.

Unlike neurofibromatosis, Proteus syndrome affects tissue other than nerves, and it is a sporadic disorder rather than a genetically transmitted disease.

Proteus (; Greek: Πρωτεύς ), also known as Neptune VIII, is the second largest Neptunian moon, and Neptune's largest inner satellite.

Discovered by Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989, it is named after Proteus, the shape-changing sea god of Greek mythology.

Proteus is probably not an original body that formed with Neptune ; it may have accreted later from the debris created when the largest Neptunian satellite Triton was captured.

Proteus is the second largest moon of Neptune.

The surface of Proteus is dark — its geometrical albedo is about 10 %.

The largest of them is Proteus.

Naiad, the closest regular moon, is also the smallest among the inner moons, while Proteus is the largest regular moon.

Throughout the 1990s, the team of Dark Horse and Studio Proteus was one of the two largest manga publishers in the U. S., competing with Viz.

After swearing never to kill again, his subsequent hesitation to do so, further compounded by an illusion in which Blink claims to no longer love him, allows the villain Proteus to possess him when the Exiles visit the House of M version of the regular Marvel Universe.

In order of distance from Neptune, the regular moons are Naiad ( moon ), Thalassa ( moon ), Despina, Galatea, Larissa and Proteus.

However, by the end of 2002, Smith was convinced that his belief that readers would have difficulty adapting to read manga " backwards " ( also known as " unflopped ", reading right to left as in the original Japanese publication ) was incorrect, citing the fact that an entire generation of new manga readers have grown up since he had started Studio Proteus and they did not have the mindset of early manga readers, most of whom came to manga from regular comics.

Proteus, like the other inner satellites of Neptune, is unlikely to be an original body that formed with it, more probably having accreted from the wreak rubble that remained after Triton's capture.

Proteus circles Neptune in a nearly equatorial orbit at the distance of about 4. 75 equatorial radii of the planet.

Proteus was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 space probe two months before its Neptune flyby in August 1989.

Proteus orbits Neptune at the distance approximately equal to 4. 75 equatorial radii of the planet.

Proteus is slightly elongated in the direction of Neptune, although its overall the shape is closer to an irregular polyhedron than to a triaxial ellipsoid.

File: Simulated view of Proteus. jpg | A simulated view of Proteus orbiting Neptune

* Proteus, A Moon Of Neptune on Views of the Solar System

* Proteus ( moon ), a natural satellite of Neptune

Other moons of Neptune are also named for Greek and Roman water gods, in keeping with Neptune's position as god of the sea: either from Greek mythology, usually children of Poseidon, the Greek Neptune ( Triton, Proteus, Despina, Thalassa ); classes of minor Greek water deity ( Naiad, Nereid ); or specific Nereids ( Halimede, Galatea, Neso, Sao, Laomedeia, Psamathe ).

Proteus ( moon ) | Proteus, a moon of Neptune, is irregular, despite being larger than the spheroidal Mimas ( moon ) | Mimas.

There are fifteen species of obligate neotenic salamanders including Necturus, Proteus and Amphiuma, and many examples of facultative ones that adopt this strategy under appropriate environmental circumstances.

Ampicillin ( originally branded as ' Penbritin ') also demonstrated activity against Gram-negative organisms such as H. influenzae, coliforms and Proteus spp.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz ( April 9, 1865 – October 26, 1923 ) was a German-American mathematician and electrical engineer.

* Charles Proteus Steinmetz: A Biography, John Winthrop Hammond, New York Century Co., 1924.

* Loki: The Life of Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Jonathan Norton Leonard, Doubleday, 1929.

* Recollections of Steinmetz-A Visit to the Workshops of Dr. Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Emil J. Remscheid, General Electric Hall of History Foundation, 1977.

The CN7 was completed by the spring of 1960, and was powered by a Bristol-Siddeley Proteus free-turbine engine of.

Popular names in the EDA software world are NI Multisim, Cadence ( ORCAD ), Eagle PCB and Schematic, Mentor ( PADS PCB and LOGIC Schematic ), Altium ( Protel ), LabCentre Electronics ( Proteus ), gEDA, KiCad and many others.

These are Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Proteus mirabilis.

* Proteus, e. g. Proteus vulgaris

The first English-language adaptation of the original manga The Ghost in the Shell was released in December 1995 in the United States, published by Dark Horse Comics and translated by Studio Proteus.

The name of the plant family Proteaceae as well as the genus Protea, both to which P. cynaroides belongs to, derive from the name of the Greek god Proteus, a deity that was able to change between many forms.

Auffenberg described the Komodo dragon as having septic pathogens in its saliva ( he described the saliva as " reddish and copious "), specifically the bacteria: E. coli, Staphylococcus sp., Providencia sp., Proteus morgani and P. mirabilis.

These were expensive, but often used the sounds from respected MIDI instruments such as the E-mu Proteus.

He was never more manifestly the Old Man of the Sea than when he was described, like Proteus, as a shapeshifter with the power of prophecy, who would aid heroes such as Heracles who managed to catch him even as he changed shapes.

Nereus and Proteus ( the " first ") seem to be two manifestations of the god of the sea who was supplanted by Poseidon when Zeus overthrew Cronus.