Triton

  1. Proper noun.  (Greek mythology) A god of the sea, son of Poseidon.
  2. Proper noun.  (astronomy) The seventh moon of Neptune.
  3. Noun.  (physics) the atomic nucleus of a tritium atom, consisting of a proton and two neutrons.
  4. Noun.  any of several marine gastropods of the family ''Cymatiidae'' having a pointed spiral shell.

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