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Meaning of "Nessus" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF NESSUS

Nessus  [ˈnɛsəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NESSUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Nessus is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NESSUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of Nessus in the English dictionary

The definition of Nessus in the dictionary is a centaur that killed Hercules. A garment dipped in its blood fatally poisoned Hercules, who had been given it by Deianira who thought it was a love charm.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NESSUS


abraxas
əˈbræksəs
Caucasus
ˈkɔːkəsəs
census
ˈsɛnsəs
colossus
kəˈlɒsəs
consensus
kənˈsɛnsəs
cupressus
kjʊˈprɛsəs
cursus
ˈkɜːsəs
Issus
ˈɪsəs
lapsus
ˈlæpsəs
Lemessus
ləˈmɛsəs
Manassas
məˈnæsəs
narcissus
nɑːˈsɪsəs
nexus
ˈnɛksəs
Oxus
ˈɒksəs
Pegasus
ˈpɛɡəsəs
plexus
ˈplɛksəs
risus
ˈraɪsəs
tarsus
ˈtɑːsəs
Texas
ˈtɛksəs
versus
ˈvɜːsəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NESSUS

Nesbit
nescience
nescient
nesh
neshness
ness
nesselrode
Nessie
nest
nest box
nest egg
NESTA

WORDS THAT END LIKE NESSUS

byssus
cissus
Cnossus
Crassus
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
grass-of-Parnassus
Halicarnassus
Lassus
missus
molossus
Mount Parnassus
Parnassus
passus
polyanthus narcissus
rhoicissus
the missus

Synonyms and antonyms of Nessus in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Nessus» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NESSUS

Find out the translation of Nessus to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Nessus from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Nessus» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

Nessus的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Nessus
570 millions of speakers

English

Nessus
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Nessus
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Nessus
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Nessus
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Nessus
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Nessus
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Nessus
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Nessus
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Nessus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ネッソス
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

네 서스 (Nessus)
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nessus
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Nessus
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Nessus
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Nessus
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Nessus
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Nessus
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Nessus
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Nessus
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Nessus
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Nessus
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Nessus
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Nessus
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Nessus
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Nessus

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NESSUS»

The term «Nessus» is regularly used and occupies the 94.014 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NESSUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Nessus» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Nessus» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Nessus

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NESSUS»

Discover the use of Nessus in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Nessus and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Nessus Network Auditing: Jay Beale Open Source Security Series
This book focuses on installing, configuring and optimizing Nessus, which is a remote security scanner for Linux, BSD, Solaris, and other Unices.
Jay Beale, Haroon Meer, Charl van der Walt, 2004
2
Nessus Network Auditing
The Updated Version of the Bestselling Nessus Book. This is the ONLY Book to Read if You Run Nessus Across the Enterprise Ever since its beginnings in early 1998, the Nessus Project has attracted security researchers from all walks of life.
Russ Rogers, 2011
3
Nessus, Snort, & Ethereal Power Tools: Customizing Open ...
This book will cover customizing Snort to perform intrusion detection and prevention; Nessus to analyze the network layer for vulnerabilities; and Ethereal to “sniff their network for malicious or unusual traffic.
Brian Caswell, Jay Beale, Gilbert Ramirez, 2005
4
Network Security Assessment: Know Your Network
adverse affect on the reliability and accuracy of scans from a Nessus server, so the deployment location of a Nessus server should be considered. Additionally, when deploying Nessus on Windows, Tenable recommends installing the Nessus ...
Chris McNab, 2007
5
Secure Your Network for Free
This is the only book to clearly demonstrate how to get big dollar security for your network using freely available tools. This is a must have book for any company or person with a limited budget.
Eric Seagren, 2011
6
AUUGN
The software is released under GPL and many people contribute to the project, especially for plugins... while some other people benefit from nessus work without even mentioning the name (more on this at the end of the article). Nessus works ...
7
Learning Nessus for Penetration Testing
prerequisites / Prerequisites on Windows 7 / Installing Nessus on Windows 7 on Linux /InstallingNessus onLinux Nessus report content about / Nessus report content Nessus report generation about / Nessus report generation report filtering  ...
Himanshu Kumar, 2014
8
Penetration Tester's Open Source Toolkit
This indicates that the user has wide-open permissions when performing Nessus scans. $NESSUSDBIN $NESSUSDOPT -a 127.0.0.1 -D This line runs the Nessus daemon, or server, in the background (-D) with any defined options set by the ...
Jeremy Faircloth, Jay Beale, Roelof Temmingh, 2006
9
The Robe of Nessus: An Historical Romance
An Historical Romance Duffield Osborne. As Lacratidas entered the square of the Leocorion and ran by the statues of the three virgins who had died to save their city, he cast a glance over his shoulder. What he saw made him turn again ...
Duffield Osborne, 1890
10
Linux Server Security
OpenSSL (again, Nessus will compile without this, but without OpenSSL all communications between the Nessus daemon and its clients will be cleartext rather than encrypted. Note that you also need your distro's openssl-devel package, ...
Michael Bauer, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NESSUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Nessus is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Tenable Network Security Appoints Ron Kaiser to Board of Directors …
... which provides the most comprehensive and integrated view of network health, and Nessus®, the global standard in detecting and assessing ... «Satellite PR News, Jul 15»
2
Is your firewall smarter than a 5th-grader?
... various commercial self-service tools, such as Metasploit, which has free (not for the faint of heart) and paid versions available, and Nessus. «Computerworld, Jul 15»
3
8 penetration testing tools that will do the job
The pen test tools for this discussion are Metasploit, the Nessus Vulnerability Scanner, Nmap, Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, SQLmap, Kali Linux, ... «CSO Online, Jul 15»
4
Forgotten Books: Sophocles' Women of Trachis
When Heracles had first rescued Deianeira from the centaur Nessus, the dying beast told her in secret that his blood could prevent Heracles ... «Edmonton Journal, Jul 15»
5
Athens Agonistes: Troika Extremists Write New Greek Tragedy
... impassively, as the Greeks twist and turn in the poisonous shirt of Nessus that the cult has forced upon them. Already brought low by years of ... «OpEdNews, Jun 15»
6
Tenable Network Security Awarded $1.1 Million to Support …
... which provides the most comprehensive and integrated view of network health, and Nessus®, the global standard in detecting and assessing ... «SYS-CON Media, Jun 15»
7
How IKEA Patched Shellshock
... knuckles and impromptu invented curse words. by dawn, either the prod environement passed a nessus scan or theyd built a bed...or both. «Military Technologies, Jun 15»
8
Global Technology Executive Michael Capellas Appointed to …
... which provides the most comprehensive and integrated view of network health, and Nessus®, the global standard in detecting and assessing ... «Business Wire, Jun 15»
9
Harnessing data: The key to better decisions
Development began on the Nessus Enterprise Web Tool in January 2014 and, after initial successful pilots, it was rolled out across the agency ... «Federal Times, Jun 15»
10
Security Watch: Tenable Network Security Extends Monitoring …
Tenable Network Security has extended OS support for their Nessus Agents to Mac OS X and Red Hat/CentOS Linux. They say this will reduce ... «CSO Australia, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Nessus [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/nessus>. Apr 2024 ».
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