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Webster 1913 Edition
omega
o-me′ga
(ō-mē′gȧ or ō-mā′gȧ or ō′mē̍-gȧ; 277)
, Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr.
ὦ μέγα
, i.e., the great or long o. Cf. Mickle
.] 1.
The last letter of the Greek alphabet. See
Alpha
. 2.
The last; the end; hence, death.
“
Omega
! thou art Lord,” they said. Tennyson.
Alpha and Omega
, the beginning and the ending; hence, the chief, the whole.
Rev. i. 8.
The alpha and
omega
of science. Sir J. Herschel.
Webster 1828 Edition
Omega
OME'GA
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Omega
Omega
German
Noun
Omega n (genitive Omega or Omegas, plural Omegas)
- omega (last letter of the Greek alphabet)
Declension
omega
omega
English
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Noun
omega (plural omegas or omegala)
- The twenty-fourth letter of the Classical and the Modern Greek alphabet, and the twenty-eighth letter of the Old and the Ancient Greek alphabet, i.e. the last letter of every Greek alphabet. Uppercase version: Ω; lowercase: ω.
- 2013, Albert Schachter & Fabienne Marchand, "Fresh Light on the Institutions and Religious Life of Thespiai: Sixe New Inscriptions from the Thespiai Survey", page 284 in Paraskevi Martzavou & Nikolaos Papazarkadas (editors), Epigraphical Approaches to the Post-Classical Polis
- The fact that the letter was incised above the line indicates that it is probably an omega.
- 2013, Albert Schachter & Fabienne Marchand, "Fresh Light on the Institutions and Religious Life of Thespiai: Sixe New Inscriptions from the Thespiai Survey", page 284 in Paraskevi Martzavou & Nikolaos Papazarkadas (editors), Epigraphical Approaches to the Post-Classical Polis
- (idiomatic, often capitalized) The end; the final, last or ultimate in a sequence.
- I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. — Revelation 22:13, New International Version.
- 2012, FX Moore, Confed: 2721: Xenocide War, page 383
- And there is always the Omega Option. At any time you can go to Manhome, go down to the vaults, lift the black cover on your clone's stasis chamber, and push the black button.
- (physics) Angular velocity; symbol: ω.
- 2013, Issues in General Physics Research: 2013 Edition, page 1084
- The ratio between the rho and omega cross section is obtained.
- 2013, Issues in General Physics Research: 2013 Edition, page 1084
- An omega male.
Derived terms
- antiomega
- omega-3 fatty acid
Translations
letter of the Greek alphabet
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the end; final or last in a sequence
angular velocity — see angular velocity