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What does Eris mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (Greek) The goddess of discord, confusion, and strife, keeper of the golden Apple of Discord which she threw into the wedding of Peleus and Thetis starting the Trojan War; daughter of Nyx, sister and constant companion of Ares, mother of Lethe.
  2. (astronomy) The largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System (initially dubbed the "tenth planet"), officially known as 136199 Eris, with one natural satellite, Dysnomia.
  3. An unincorporated community in Champaign County, Ohio, United States.
Name
  1. A female given name of Greek origin.
    1. (meaning, history) The goddess of discord.
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Eris is the goddess of discord, and she had not been invited, as she always causes people to quarrel and so is loved by no one.
A paper in the journal Science has further relegated poor Pluto's status by proving that twin dwarf planet Eris is 27 per cent larger.
At the wedding of Thetis, a water nymph, all the gods and goddesses except Eris were seated at the banquet.
I think the timocratic structure of divinity in early Greek myth might be quite a good thing to apply to the tale of Eris, the apple and the Trojan War.
However the final blow came when a Kuiper Belt Object, Eris, was discovered to be bigger than poor Pluto.
The first time we tried them out was, appropriately enough, in a ritual invocation of Eris, and they seemed to work very well.

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