daemon.
A minor deity or divinity.
Meaning & usage
A minor deity or divinity.
A muse, a personified source of inspiration, especially one that also causes anguish.
An idea depicted as an entity.
Archaic spelling of demon.
Where this word comes from
A borrowing of Latin daemōn (“tutelary deity”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, tutelary deity”).
A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal.
Where this word comes from
A reference to Maxwell's demon. The putative derivation from "disk and execution monitor" is generally considered a backronym.
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