Triton: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Triton may refer to:

• Triton, a Greek god; his name and image have come to be associated with a class of mythological beings called Tritons.
• Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune.
• Triton, a novel by Samuel R. Delany.
• The Ford Triton engine, a DOHC V8 engine made by the Ford Motor Company.
• The Korg Triton workstation synthesizer.
• A newt or salamander.
• A helium-3 nucleus, particularly one used as a bombarding particle or emitted in a nuclear reaction.
• Triton, a demo group.
• RV Triton or HMS Triton, ships in the British Royal Navy.
• USS Triton:
  • USCGC Triton, a 165-foot cutter which operated out of United States Coast Guard Base 15 at Biloxi, Mississippi during the Prohibition.
  • USS Triton (YT-10), a 212-ton tug built at Camden, New Jersey in 1889 and purchased in that year by the United States Navy.
  • USS Triton (SS-201), a submarine lost during World War II.
  • USCGC Triton (WPC/WMEC-116), a United States Coast Guard patrol boat that served almost simultaneously with the previous submarine.
  • USS Triton (SSRN/SSN-586), a nuclear-powered radar picket submarine, the first vessel to execute a submerged circumnavigation of the Earth.