A fork of Rural Dictionary
1. A healthcare oursourcing company based in Arkansas 2. A new perflorelastomer plastic used in high temperature O-rings 3. An airport bomb detector based upon NOx chemiluminesence technology.
1. Aegis screws their employees because they hire 40% temp wokers. 2. Those Aegis O-rings cost $137 each? 3. That bomb detector is made by Aegis, but it only detects NOx in explosives, not anthrax canisters.
Ægis, Greek mythology. The goatskin breastplate or shield of Zeus(King of the gods) or Athena (goddess of wisdom). The shield, Ægis, when carried by Athena has the head of Medusa, retaining its powers of petrification, attached to the center. The shield offered protection and security - to be under the ægis of someone, or something, is to be under its protection.
In WWII, foreign ministers entered warring territories under the ægis of diplomacy.
A prototype transformable commander use mobile suit from the series "mobile suit gundam seed". As it's model number gat-x303 indicates, it's built around the federation's gat frame. It's one of the four gundams that were stolen by zaft at heliopolis. It was given to and exclusively piloted by athrun zala until it self detonated in it's battle against the gat-x105 strike gundam.
Damn the aegis gundam is so cool, it's red and it Transformers!
A class of cruiser used by the United States Navy. It is equipped with a powerful SPY radar system and considerable anit-aircraft capabilities.
The USS Port Royal, an AEGIS-class cruiser, was assigned to the John Stennis' carrier battle group.