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omega

 

  6  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Omega  \O*me"ga\,  n.  [NL.,  fr  Gr  ?,  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  omega 
  n  1:  the  ending  of  a  series  or  sequence;  "the  Alpha  and  the 
  Omega,  the  first  and  the  last  the  beginning  and  the 
  end"--Revelation  [syn:  {Z}] 
  2:  the  last  (24th)  letter  of  the  Greek  alphabet 
 
  From  U.S.  Gazetteer  (1990)  [gazetteer]: 
 
  Omega,  GA  (city,  FIPS  58184) 
  Location:  31.33833  N,  83.59560  W 
  Population  (1990):  912  (384  housing  units) 
  Area:  4.6  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water) 
  Zip  code(s):  31775 
  Omega,  OK 
  Zip  code(s):  73764 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  Omega 
 
  1.    A  {prototype}-based  {object-oriented} 
  language  from  Austria. 
 
  ["Type-Safe  Object-Oriented  Programming  with  Prototypes  -  The 
  Concept  of  Omega",  G.  Blaschek  Structured  Programming 
  12:217-225,  1991]. 
 
  2.    A  successor  to  {TeX}  extended  to  handle  the 
  {Unicode}  character  set 
 
  {(http://www.ens.fr/omega/)}. 
 
  (1997-11-20) 
 
 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Omega 
  (Rev.  1:8),  the  last  letter  in  the  Greek  alphabet.  (See  {A}.) 
 
 
  From  Hitchcock's  Bible  Names  Dictionary  (late  1800's)  [hitchcock]: 
 
  Omega,  the  last  letter  of  the  Greek  alphabet;  long  O




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