Definitions for "LEVIATHAN"
An enormous aquatic animal mentioned by Job. Some suppose it to have been the whale, but that distinguished ichthyologer, Dr. Jordan, of Stanford University, maintains with considerable heat that it was a species of gigantic Tadpole (_Thaddeus Polandensis_) or Polliwig -- _Maria pseudo-hirsuta_. For an exhaustive description and history of the Tadpole consult the famous monograph of Jane Potter, _Thaddeus of Warsaw_.
An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture.
The whale, or a great whale.
a very large ship.
The U.S. military's warfighting capacity and the high- performance combat troops, weapon systems, aircraft, armor, and ships associated with all-out war against traditionally defined opponents (i.e., other militaries). This is the force America created to defend the West against the Soviet threat, now transformed from its industrial-era roots to its information-age capacity for high-speed, high-lethality, and high-precision major combat operations. The Leviathan force is without peer in the world today, and--as such--frequently finds itself fighting shorter and easier wars. This "overmatch" means, however, that current and future enemies in the global war on terrorism will largely seek to avoid triggering the Leviathan's employment, preferring to wage asymmetrical war against the United States, focusing on its economic interests and citizenry. The Leviathan rules the "first half" of war, but is often ill-suited, by design and temperament, to the "second half" of peace, to include postconflict stabilization and reconstruction operations. It is thus counterposed to the System Administrators force.
The Leviathan is an Interdictor-class warship formerly in the service of the Republic, then became the flagship of the Sith Lord Darth Malak. The Leviathan was featured in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. It was commanded by Admiral Saul Karath both in Republic and Sith service.
Leviathan is a concept album by metal band Mastodon, released in 2004. The album is based on the Herman Melville novel Moby-Dick. Its songs "Iron Tusk", "Blood and Thunder" and "Seabeast" were released as singles.
Leviathan is a black metal band from San Francisco, California, USA.
Leviathan were a Heavy Metal and Punk Rock band that were formed in New York City, New York in 2002 and played until 2005. During their brief time, they played with Glenn Danzig, The Exploited, Nuclear Assault, Body Count, Jello Biafra, Clutch, Michale Graves, The Misfits, Hirax, Six Feet Under, and Testament, to name a few. Before their demise, Caustic Truths Magazine named the band alongside Sum 41 and The Hellacopters as one of the fifty "hardest touring bands in the USA" in 2004.
The Leviathan comic strip by Peter Blegvad appeared in the review section of the British newspaper The Independent on Sunday during the 1990s. The title character, whose name is shortened in the strip to Levi, is drawn as a faceless baby who constantly carries a stuffed toy rabbit called Rabbit. A pet cat called Cat is often around to give advice.
Leviathan is a steampunk horror comic series created by Ian Edginton and D'Israeli and appearing in 2000 AD.
LEVIATHAN is a stream cipher submitted to NESSIE by Scott Fluhrer and David Mc Grew. It is a seekable stream cipher, which means that the user may efficiently skip forward to any part of the keystream, much like CTR mode or Salsa20, but unlike those ciphers generating contiguous blocks of the keystream is made especially efficient by LEVIATHAN's unique tree structure based stream generation. LEVIATHAN achieves around 11 cycles/byte on a Pentium II processor.
the largest or most massive thing of its kind; "it was a leviathan among redwoods"; "they were assigned the leviathan of textbooks"