omicron

 
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omicron

  (ŏm'ĭ-krŏn', ō'mĭ-) pronunciation
n.

The 15th letter of the Greek alphabet.

[Middle English, from Greek o mīkron, small o (because of its being a short vowel in Greek) : o, the letter o + mīkron, neuter of mīkros, small.]


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(ŏm'ĭ-krŏn', ō'mĭ-)
n.

(Symbol ο) The 15th letter of the Greek alphabet.

 
Games:

Omicron

  • Platform: Commodore 64/128
  • Release Date: 198X
 
WordNet: omicron
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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet


 
Wikipedia: Omicron
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Greek alphabet
Αα Alpha Νν Nu
Ββ Beta Ξξ Xi
Γγ Gamma Οο Omicron
Δδ Delta Ππ Pi
Εε Epsilon Ρρ Rho
Ζζ Zeta Σσς Sigma
Ηη Eta Ττ Tau
Θθ Theta Υυ Upsilon
Ιι Iota Φφ Phi
Κκ Kappa Χχ Chi
Λλ Lambda Ψψ Psi
Μμ Mu Ωω Omega
Obsolete letters
Digamma Qoppa
San Sampi
Other characters
Stigma Sho
Heta

Greek diacritics

Omicron or Omikron (uppercase Ο, lowercase ο, literally "small o" : Όμικρον, o mikron, micron meaning 'small' in contrast to omega) is the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 70. It is rarely used in mathematics because it is indistinguishable from the Latin letter O and easily confused with the digit 0. This letter is equal to the Phoenician letter Ayin. In modern Greek, Omicron represents the sound IPA[ɔː]. Letters that arose from omicron include Roman O and Cyrillic O.

In Unicode the capital letter is codepoint U+039F and the lowercase is U+03BF.

The upper-case letter of omicron (O) was originally used as a symbol for Big O notation, representing the asymptotic rate of growth of a function in mathematics.


 
 

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