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Ajax
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AJAX Ájax ajax
English
+, Ontario
Pronunciation
en /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒæks/ /ˈɑːjæks/ soccer
en en-us-ajax.ogg US
Etymology 1
From en la Aiāx, from en grc Αἴᾱς.
Proper noun
en Greek mythology Either of two heroes of the Trojan War.
en 1995 David Sacks; Oswyn Murray A Dictionary of the Ancient Greek World Oxford University Press, USA 9780195112061 11 In the legend of the Trojan War, Ajax was king of Salamis and son of Telamon. After Achilles, he was the bravest Greek warrior at Troy. In Homer's epic poem the Iliad, Ajax engages in many combats for...
en rare en male.
en town p/Ontario c/Canada.
en 1994 Mike Filey Toronto Sketches 3: The Way We Were Dundurn 9781550022278 135 In relative terms, the history of Ajax, Ontario, a town twenty-three miles east of Toronto, is short, spanning a little more than half a century. (Interestingly, to me at least, is the fact that the town is the same age as I am.).
Derived terms
en Ajantian ajaxification
Translations
either of two heroes of the Trojan War
Albanian: sq Ajanti
Azerbaijani: az Ayaks
Breton: br Aias
Bulgarian: bg Аякс
Catalan: ca Àiax m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 埃阿斯 Āi'āsī
Czech: cs Àiàs
Danish: da Ajax
Dutch: nl Ajax m
Esperanto: eo Ajakso
Estonian: et Aias
Finnish: fi Aias
French: fr Ajax m
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Ajaks
Galician: gl Àiax
German: de Aias m, de Ajax m
Greek: el Αίαντας m
Ancient Greek: grc Αἴας m
Greenlandic: kl Ajaxi
Hindi: hi एयास m
Hungarian: hu Aiasz
Icelandic: is Ajas
Indonesian: id Aias
Inuktitut: iu ᐊᔭᒃᔅ
Italian: it Aiace m
Japanese: ja アイアース Aiāsu
Javanese: jv Aias
Korean: ko ^아이아스
Latin: la Aiāx n
Lithuanian: lt Ajaksas
Macedonian: mk Ајант
Marathi: mr एजॅक्स, mr आइआस
Polish: pl Ajas
Portuguese: pt Ájax m
Romanian: ro Aiax
Russian: ru Ая́кс
Serbo-Croatian: sh Ajant, sh А̀јант
Slovak: sk Aias
Slovene: sl Ajant
Spanish: es Áyax m
Turkish: tr Aias, tr Ajax
Ukrainian: uk Аякс
Welsh: cy Aias
Etymology 2
Short for en asynchronous Asynchronous en JavaScript and en XML.
Alternative forms
en AJAX
Proper noun
en computing A group of techniques for creating interactive Web applications, in which applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page.
en 2005 Jesse James Garrett Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications An Ajax application eliminates the start-stop-start-stop nature of interaction on the Web by…
Derived terms
en Ajaxify Ajaxifying
Etymology 3
Proper noun
en ghost town s/Utah.
en 1910 Forth 829 Seldom was the missionary more agreeably surprised than when the mail stage which had picked him up from the train at Ajax, Utah, drew up at an old ranch.
en unincorporated community s/South Dakota.
en 2000 Construction Into the Powder River Basin, Powder River Basin Expansion Project: Environmental Impact Statement 20 Once across Spring Creek the branch line turns southeast and then southwest and proceeds toward Ajax, South Dakota.
en unincorporated community par/Natchitoches Parish s/Louisiana.
en 2016 Suzi Parron Following the Barn Quilt Trail Ohio University Press 9780804040693 THE road north took us to Ajax, Louisiana, more of a crossroads than an actual town. The RV park sat just a minute or so from the interstate and miles from much else; a saw mill near the highway and a diner across the road were the only...
en unincorporated community s/West Virginia.
en soccer The Amsterdam football club AFC Ajax en
en Aspen Mountain Nickname of Aspen Mountain, en mountain co/Pitkin County s/Colorado a.
Translations
Amsterdam football club
Bulgarian: bg Аякс m
Finnish: fi Ajax
German: de Ajax n; usually de Ajax Amsterdam
Japanese: ja アヤックス Ayakkusu
Korean: ko ^아약스
Anagrams
en aajx JAXA
en Computer languages JavaScript Nicknames Poker Trojan War
Dutch
Proper noun
m
nl soccer AFC Ajax
German
Etymology
From de la Aiāx, from de grc Αἴᾱς.
Pronunciation
de /ˈaːjaks/
de De-Ajax.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
m,':ens:-[with an article],e
de Greek mythology en Ajax
Proper noun
n,':-[with an article]
de Ajax Amsterdam football club
Latin
Etymology
la Ajāx :der grc:Αἴᾱς + 1
Pronunciation
Ajāx
Proper noun
Ajāx<3.both> m
la Aiāx Aiāx
Declension
Ajāx<3.both>
References
Portuguese
Proper noun
m
pt Ájax
pt terms with varying stress