Meaning of Epic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Acronym of explicitly parallel instruction computing.
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2. Acronym of Estates and Protected Individuals Code.
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3. An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.
4. Alternative letter-case form of epic (“extended narrative poem”); especially a poem within a particular tradition of epics.
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5. Acronym of epitaxial integrated circuit.
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6. Acronym of East Plano Islamic Center.
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7. A series of events considered appropriate to an epic; any work of literature, film, etc. having heroic deeds and adventures as its subject matter.
8. A large or extended user story.

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Examples

“The Texas Rangers investigation is one of at least five announced investigations targeting EPIC or EPIC City. Those include investigations led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Texas Workforce Commission, the Texas State Board of Securities and the Texas Funeral Service Commission.”

“The Icelandic epic took all night to recite.”

“The book was an epic in four volumes.”

“These epics nearly always had runaway trains, nincompoops floundering with the controls and a collapsed bridge just ahead!”

“Epics are shown in a separate list from user stories. This is because it is the user stories that are developed, not epics. Epics are decomposed into child user stories.”

“He calls for a special kind of instrument, bearing a name which smacks of the Norse Epics—a “Nibling.””

“Compare Milton’s Epics with the other great Epics of the world.”

“The “Idylls of the King,” more of a complete Epic than any of the great Epics, showed how high is that aim which every commonwealth of men is bound to propose to itself; […]”

“The Epic has a continuous history from the Mycenaean era to the making of the Iliad.”

“This conciliatory approach to the Gītā is a clear enough indication of its being influenced by the world of the Epics to which it belongs.”

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