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Triton may be:

Triton (mythology), a Greek god, the messenger of the deep, son of Poseidon, god of the sea
Triton (mollusk), a marine snail of the family Ranellidae
Triton (moon), the largest moon of the planet Neptune
Triton (novel), a novel by Samuel R. Delany
Triton (The Little Mermaid), Princess Ariel's father in the Disney animated film The Little Mermaid
Triton (band), a Japanese progressive rock band
Triton (demogroup), an IBM-PC demoscene demogroup (1992-1996).
Tritón, a Mexican magazine
Triton College, a two-year college located in River Grove, Illinois (USA)
Triton Motorcycle, a hybrid Cafe racer style of motorbike built from a Triumph engine and a Norton chassis
Triton X-100, a nonionic detergent often used in extraction buffers
Korg Triton a workstation musical synthesizer [1] [2]
Pearson Triton, one of the first production fiberglass sailboats manufactured in the United States
Ford Triton engine, a series of engines made by the Ford Motor Company

Ships: Triton is a Greek god, the messenger of the deep. ... Triton is the name given to various large sea snails of the genus Charonia, named after the Greek god Triton, son of Poseidon, god of the Sea. ... Triton (trye-tÉ™n, IPA , Greek Î¤ÏÎ¯Ï„Ï‰Î½), or Neptune I, is the planet Neptunes largest moon. ... Triton (1976) is a science fiction/fantasy novel by Samuel Delany. ... King Triton is a character who first appeared in the Disney animated movie The Little Mermaid. ... Triton (TRN) was a demo group active in the PC demoscene from 1992 to about 1996. ... Cover of TritÃ³n TritÃ³n is a Mexican magazine dedicated to news, books and information on swimming, diving and waterpolo. ... Triton College is a two-year community college located in River Grove, Illinois, a suburb 14 miles (23 km) northwest of downtown Chicago. ... TRITON : The 1960s Dream Machine: What is a TRITON? This is how it started; The Triumph motor was probably the best performance and tuning capability in the 1960s. ... Triton X-100 is a nonionic detergent which has a hydrophilic polyethylene oxide group (on average it has 9. ... The Korg Triton is a music workstation synthesizer featuring digital sampling and sequencing created by Korg. ... The Pearson Triton, also known as Triton, was one of the first production fiberglass sailboats manufactured in the United States. ... The Triton engine is Fords line of modern truck engines. ...

HMS Triton or HMS Tryton, eight vessels of the Royal Navy
RV Triton, an experimental trimaran that underwent trials with the Royal Navy from 2001 to 2005
USS Triton, three vessels of the United States Navy
USCGC Triton, two ships of the United States Coast Guard

Triton may also be: Eight vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Triton or HMS Tryton, after Triton, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, and the personification of the roaring waters: Tryton, originally French ship Triton, was a 42-gun fifth-rate captured in 1702 at the battle of Vigo Bay, and... The RV Triton and a Lynx naval helicopter The RV Triton, is a trimaran vessel owned by the Gardline maritime survey company and a former prototype British warship demonstrator for the QinetiQ defence research company. ... Three ships and submarines of the U.S. Navy have been named USS Triton, after Triton, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, and the personification of the roaring waters: The first Triton (YT-10), a 212-ton tug, was built at Camden, New Jersey, in 1889 and purchased in that... Two ships of the U.S. Coast Guard have been named USCGC Triton, after Triton, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, and the personification of the roaring waters: The first Triton was a 165-foot cutter which operated out of Coast Guard Base 15 at Biloxi, Mississippi during what was...

A newt or salamander
A tritium nucleus, particularly one used as a bombarding particle or emitted in a nuclear reaction
The Allied code name for a communication network using the Enigma machine used by German War Navy during the Second World War
AIM Triton, a version of the AOL Instant Messenger software
The Tritons, the athletic mascot for the University of California, San Diego

This article is about the animal called newt. ... Suborders Cryptobranchoidea Salamandroidea Sirenoidea Salamander is the common name applied to approximately 500 amphibian vertebrates with slender bodies, short legs, and long tails (order Caudata or Urodela). ... Tritium (symbol T or 3H) is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. ... A three-rotor German military Enigma machine showing, from bottom to top, the plugboard, the keyboard, the lamps and the finger-wheels of the rotors emerging from the inner lid (version with labels). ... The AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) is an ad-supported instant messaging and presence computer program, published by AOL in October of 1997, which uses the OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol. ... The University of California, San Diego (popularly known as UCSD) is a public, coeducational university located in La Jolla, California. ...

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How was the tritone used? (0 words)
	However, at least by the epoch of Perotin and his successors, while the tritone was typically classified in the 13th century as a "perfect discord" (along with m2 and M7), it nevertheless occurs, as do these intervals, quite frequently and prominently in practice.
	Indeed, there are many 13th-century cadences where the tritone serves basically as a "counterfeit fourth or fifth," and Boen suggests that similar progressions may sometimes have occurred in the 14th century as well.
	In a medieval context, where fifths and fourths are the most complex stable intervals, the tritone is unique among the usual intervals in neither being itself stable, nor in being to resolve to any stable interval by conjunct contrary motion: compare 2-4, 3-1 or 3-5, 6-8 or 6-4, and 7-5.

Neptune's Moon Triton (1455 words)
	Triton is the only large satellite in the solar system to circle a planet in a retrograde direction -- in a direction opposite to the rotation of the planet.
	Triton appears to be roughly 10% darker than in images taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
	With Triton's long seasons, the southern summer has been progressing, and the south pole has received increasing sunlight; thus, it is probable that much of the frost covering the region in 1989 has evaporated, some of which may have condensed at the equator (hence the bright region there).

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