Ajax

Either of two heroes of the Trojan War.

In the legend of the Trojan War, Ajax was king of Salamis and son of Telamon. After Achilles, he was the bravest Greek warrior at Troy. In Homer's epic poem the Iliad, Ajax engages in many combats for...

rareA male given name.

A town in Ontario, Canada.

In relative terms, the history of Ajax, Ontario, a town twenty-three miles east of Toronto, is short, spanning a little more than half a century. (Interestingly, to me at least, is the fact that the town is the same age as I am.).

A group of techniques for creating interactive Web applications, in which applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page.

An Ajax application eliminates the start-stop-start-stop nature of interaction on the Web by…

A ghost town in Utah.

Seldom was the missionary more agreeably surprised than when the mail stage which had picked him up from the train at Ajax, Utah, drew up at an old ranch.

An unincorporated community in South Dakota.

Once across Spring Creek the branch line turns southeast and then southwest and proceeds toward Ajax, South Dakota.

An unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.

THE road north took us to Ajax, Louisiana, more of a crossroads than an actual town. The RV park sat just a minute or so from the interstate and miles from much else; a saw mill near the highway and a diner across the road were the only...

An unincorporated community in West Virginia.

The Amsterdam football club AFC Ajax

Nickname of Aspen Mountain, a mountain in Pitkin County, Colorado.