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n. (context astronomy English) A moon of Uranus
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Cressida ( , ) is an inner satellite of Uranus. It was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on 9 January 1986, and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 3. It was named after Cressida, the Trojan daughter of Calchas, a tragic heroine who appears in William Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida (as well as in tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and others). It is also designated Uranus IX.
Cressida belongs to the Portia Group of satellites, which includes Bianca, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Cupid, Belinda and Perdita. These satellites have similar orbits and photometric properties. Other than its orbit, radius of 41 km and geometric albedo of 0.08, virtually nothing is known about it.
In the Voyager 2 images Cressida appears as an elongated object, its major axis pointing towards Uranus. The ratio of axes of Cressida's prolate spheroid is 0.8 ± 0.3. Its surface is grey in color.
Cressida may collide with Desdemona within the next 100 million years.
Cressida (; also Criseida, Cresseid or Criseyde) is a character who appears in many Medieval and Renaissance retellings of the story of the Trojan War. She is a Trojan woman, the daughter of Calchas, a Greek seer. She falls in love with Troilus, the youngest son of King Priam, and pledges everlasting love, but when she is sent to the Greeks as part of a hostage exchange, she forms a liaison with the Greek warrior Diomedes. In later culture she becomes an archetype of a faithless lover.
Cressida ( , ) is a character in Medieval and Renaissance literature. Cressida may also refer to:
- Cressida (moon), a moon of Uranus
- Cressida (band), an English progressive rock band
- Cressida, a monotypic genus of butterfly in the family Papilionidae
- Toyota Cressida, a model of car
- Kathryn Cressida, American voice actress
As a given name:
- Cressida Bell (born 1959), English artist and designer
- Cressida Bonas
- Cressida Campbell (born 1960), Australian artist
- Cressida Cowell (born 1966), English children's author
- Cressida Dick (born 1960), English police officer
- Cressida Granger, British entrepreneur
- Cressida Heyes (born 1970), Canadian philosopher
Cressida was a British progressive rock band, best known for its mellow, symphonic sound. Originally known as Charge, the band was active from 1968 to 1970, and recorded two albums for Vertigo.
Usage examples of "cressida".
He has a daughter, Cressida, almost sixteen and ripe for the marriage bed.
She wore a slightly outmoded gown in heavy cranberry velvet and, like Cressida, she had put off her veiled hennin in favour of a more embroidered linen cap, from which her still fair hair curled at the front and sides.
It seems he has heard of your coming sixteenth birthday, Cressida, and wishes you to be presented to his Queen, on the understanding that you might enter her household as a lady-in-waiting--until your marriage, that is.
Despite her earlier forebodings, Cressida was excited by the new sights and experiences, though Alice grumbled almost every step of the way.
The roads were hard-rutted and the weather chilly without excessive frost, the sun watery on most days and low in the sky, but, despite the barrenness of the brown earth fields, and the stark, skeletal branches of trees arching over their heads, Cressida rejoiced in the sights of the rolling English country they passed through.
Sir John Paynton, and it was here that Cressida celebrated her sixteenth birthday on the twenty-eighth of November.
It was a joyous occasion and she was made much of by her burly uncle, who had longed for a daughter, his wife having given him four sturdy sons, two of whom were older than Cressida and the two remaining still too young to be sent into the households of neighbouring gentry to e trained as pages.
Reluctantly Cressida left her post of vantage where, at least, she could watch the novel sights below, and came to remove her travelling gown and lie down, as her mother had recommended.
Alice had already settled to rest and Cressida did not want to bother her with the back lacing of her gown, but she experienced some difficulty in trying to manage it unaided.
The broad courtyard was bordered on two sides by long, low outbuildings which Cressida judged to be stables and mews.
The des triers pawed the ground impatiently and Cressida saw that the men needed all their skill to control the powerful beasts.
The second man prepared to follow, but Cressida must have made some sound or movement for he turned sharply in her direction.
Head held down and panting, Cressida could do nothing but try to regain her breath.
Alice was awake and already panicking when Cressida reached her bedchamber.
She stood, arms akimbo, facing Cressida, who was struggling with the refractory laces of her travelling gown.