China's epic traffic jam vanished, AFP news story, Wednesday August 25, 2010.
An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity or demigod (heroic epic) or other legendary or traditional hero
a film which portrays a spectacle which often has historic or biblical significance The film Titanic is a modern day epic whereas Ben Hur is a epic film from an earlier era
Diving company started in 1972 by L J "Pie" Rivet EPIC stands for: Excavation, Pipeline, Inspection, and Construction
adj Surpassing the usual or ordinary, particularly in scope or size An adventure where everything seems to go wrong and the adventurers are constatnly put at risk
A wonderful experience And since the best experiences are on a bike this term is used to describe a fine ride "The trip down the mountain was epic "
An extended narrative poem, usually simple in construction, but grand in scope, exalted in style, and heroic in theme, often giving expression to the ideals of a nation or race Sidelight: Homer, the author of The Iliad and The Odyssey, is sometimes referred to as the "Father of Epic Poetry " Based on the conventions he established, classical epics began with an argument and an invocation to a guiding spirit, then started the narrative in medias res In modern use, the term, "epic," is generally applied to all lengthy works on matters of great importance (See also Chanson de Geste, Cycle, Epopee, Epos, Heroic Quatrain) (Compare Ballad, Narrative, Tragedy) (Contrast Mock-Epic)
constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic; "epic tradition"
Explicitly-Parallel Instruction set Computing, an instruction set architecture where every dependency for an instruction is encoded into the instruction itself This has the potential to be faster as the compiler can encode the data dependencies in the instructions
Acronym for Eastern Pacific Investigation of Climate processes in the coupled ocean-atmosphere system, a process-oriented study of the VAMOS element of CLIVAR EPIC focuses on the eastern Pacific Ocean, specifically the cold tongue ITCZ region and the stratus dreck region The goal is to understand coupled ocean-atmosphere processes in these regions with the intent of building toward better models and prediction [ http: //www cdc noaa gov/~ajr/epicwksh html] [ http: //www physics nmt edu/raymond/epic2001/overview/]
Having to do with large-scale battles An epic-scale scenario or set of rules is one dealing with big battles, in which each figure represents dozens or hundreds of actual combatants The opposite of epic-level is skirmish-level
Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or fictitious events, usually the achievements of some hero, are narrated in an elevated style