Vulcan

  1. Proper noun.  (Roman god) The god of volcanoes and fire, especially the forge, also the patron of all craftsmen, principally blacksmiths.
  2. Proper noun.  (astronomy, historical) A hypothetical planet proposed to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun in a 19th-century hypothesis.
  3. Proper noun.  (slang, pejorative) A person who seems to lack emotion or is overly analytical and boring.
  4. Proper noun.  A town in southern Alberta, Canada.
  5. Proper noun.  A fictional inhabited planet.

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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.