Noun
A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes.
Any man or beast of gigantic size.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA Colossus reconstruction was switched on in 1996; it was upgraded to Mk2 configuration in 2004; it found the key for a wartime German ciphertext in 2007. Source: Internet
And yet, when it seemed to matter most, her father, the legal colossus, did not come up with some recondite forensic doctrine to put an end to all that nonsense. Source: Internet
As a result, when the time came to make his solo directorial debut with The Colossus of Rhodes (Il Colosso di Rodi, 1961), Leone was well equipped to produce low-budget films which looked like larger-budget Hollywood movies. Source: Internet
Another nine Colossus Mk2s were built, and all ten machines were surprisingly reliable. Source: Internet
As part of an attack on Tunny, Max Newman and his colleagues helped specify the Colossus. Source: Internet
Allen Coombs took over leadership of the Colossus Mark 2 project when Tommy Flowers moved on to other projects. citation Colossus was able to process 5,000 characters per second with the paper tape moving at convert. Source: Internet