omega
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Etymology
From Middle English, from Ancient Greek ὦ μέγα (ô méga), meaning “great ω” (omega is a long vowel in Ancient Greek).
Pronunciation
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”, in Paraskevi Martzavou, Nikolaos Papazarkadas, editors, Epigraphical Approaches to the Post-Classical, Polis, page 284:
- The fact that the letter was incised above the line indicates that it is probably an omega.
- (often capitalized) The end; the final, last or ultimate in a sequence.
- 1978, New International Version, Revelation 22:13:
- I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
- 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, page 1084:
- The ratio between the rho and omega cross section is obtained.
- (set theory) A transfinite ordinal number referring to the next position after ordering a countably infinite set.
- (slang) An omega male.
- (finance) The percentage change in an option value divided by the percentage change in the underlying asset's price.
- (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a person of a submissive secondary sex driven by biology, magic, or other means to bond with an alpha, with males of this type often being able to get pregnant.
- 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 5:
- By writing a male character as an omega, experiences of being treated as other in female-coded ways are imagined to be experienced by a character who represents the male norm.
- 2018, Laura Campillo Arnaiz, “When the Omega Empath Met the Alpha Doctor: An Analysis of Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics in the Hannibal Fandom”, in Ashton Spacey, editor, The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction, page 126:
- Sweet as Peaches on the Tongue can be defined as the typical dark A/B/O story, wherein a rich alpha gentleman (Dr. Hannibal Lecter) comes across a very young, virginal omega (Will Graham) by accident.
Synonyms
- (measure of derivative price sensitivity): elasticity, lambda
Hypernyms
- (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)
Derived terms
Translations
letter of the Greek alphabet
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the end; final or last in a sequence
angular velocity — see angular velocity
Adjective
omega (not comparable)
Adverb
omega (not comparable)
- (slang, largely prepositive) Ultimately, most, supremely.
- Whatever your plan is, I just think this idea's omega stupid. Ain't you got something better?
Anagrams
Pronunciation
Noun
omega f (plural omegues)
Derived terms
Alternative forms
Noun
omega n or f
- omega (Greek letter)
Declension
when feminine:
Declension of omega (hard feminine)
Indeclinable when neuter.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὦ μέγα (ô méga).
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
omega f or m (plural omegas, diminutive omegaatje n)
- omega (Greek letter)
Further reading
omega on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
Pronunciation
Noun
omega
- Alternative spelling of oomega.
Declension
| Inflection of omega (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | omega | omegat | |
| genitive | omegan | omegoiden omegoitten omegojen | |
| partitive | omegaa | omegoita omegoja | |
| illative | omegaan | omegoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | omega | omegat | |
| accusative | nom. | omega | omegat |
| gen. | omegan | ||
| genitive | omegan | omegoiden omegoitten omegojen omegain rare | |
| partitive | omegaa | omegoita omegoja | |
| inessive | omegassa | omegoissa | |
| elative | omegasta | omegoista | |
| illative | omegaan | omegoihin | |
| adessive | omegalla | omegoilla | |
| ablative | omegalta | omegoilta | |
| allative | omegalle | omegoille | |
| essive | omegana | omegoina | |
| translative | omegaksi | omegoiksi | |
| abessive | omegatta | omegoitta | |
| instructive | — | omegoin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
compounds
Further reading
- “omega”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Pronunciation
Noun
omega m or f (invariable)
- omega (letter; scientific symbol)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὦ μέγα (ô méga).
Pronunciation
Noun
omega f
- omega (Greek letter Ω, ω)
Declension
Declension of omega
Derived terms
noun
Further reading
Etymology
Noun
omega m (uncountable)
Declension
declension of omega (singular only)
Pronunciation
Noun
omega f (plural omegas)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “omega”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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