ELECTRA Definition & Meaning

Electra

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Also Elektra. Classical Mythology. the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra who incited her brother Orestes to kill Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.
Astronomy. one of the six visible stars in the Pleiades.

Electra

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Greek myth the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. She persuaded her brother Orestes to avenge their father by killing his murderess Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus

Electra

In classical mythology , a daughter of Agamemnon . To avenge his death, she helped her brother, Orestes , kill their mother and her lover.

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The “Electra complex” in psychology involves a girl's or woman's unconscious sexual feelings for her father.

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In fact, you made your Broadway debut in “Gypsy,” as a stripper, Electra, and there was a lot to that name, wasn’t there?

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It’s something she’s touched on in her music before, in 2012’s Electra Heart, on track Teen Idle, she alludes to being bulimic, with mentions of purging.

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Some startups funded by ARPA-E, like Electra, which received nearly $2.9 million, are pursuing a more fundamental shift: using electricity to power the whole process.

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Millions of dollars have been spent combing the depths for her Electra, to no avail.

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“The proportions aren’t quite right,” says Jourdan, pointing to the way the wings are swept back rather than straight across, as the Electra’s were.

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