Epic

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Acronym of explicitly parallel instruction computing.
2. isim Acronym of epitaxial integrated circuit.
3. özel isim Acronym of Estates and Protected Individuals Code.
4. özel isim Acronym of East Plano Islamic Center.

   “The Texas Rangers investigation is one of at least five announced investigations targeting EPIC or EPIC City. Those include investigations led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Texas Workforce Commission, the Texas State Board of Securities and the Texas Funeral Service Commission.”

5. isim An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.

   “The Icelandic epic took all night to recite.”

6. isim A series of events considered appropriate to an epic; any work of literature, film, etc. having heroic deeds and adventures as its subject matter.

   “The book was an epic in four volumes.”

7. isim A large or extended user story.

   “Epics are shown in a separate list from user stories. This is because it is the user stories that are developed, not epics. Epics are decomposed into child user stories.”

8. sıfat Of or relating to an epic.

   “Beowulf is an epic poem.”

9. sıfat Momentously heroic; grand in scale or character.

   “The epic defense was rewarded with the highest military decorations”

10. sıfat Extending beyond the usual or ordinary.

    “The after-prom party was truly epic.”

11. sıfat That is an epimorphism.
12. sıfat Alternative letter-case form of epic (“relating to epic poems”).

    “Egil’s Saga, I think, one cannot at present obtain at all, and the Saga of the Laxdale men I only possess in Latin. These and the rest are truly Epic narratives, the Odysseys of a ruder race than the Achæans.”

13. sıfat Pertaining to a dialect characteristic of epic poems, especially Epic Greek.

    “Every δῆμος [dêmos] had one or more towns (πόλεις [poleis]), and accordingly for the complete description of the land, usual in the Epic phraseology, both expressions are commonly united […]”

14. isim Alternative letter-case form of epic (“extended narrative poem”); especially a poem within a particular tradition of epics.

    “He calls for a special kind of instrument, bearing a name which smacks of the Norse Epics—a “Nibling.””