1.
[syn: omega, Z]
2. the last (24th) letter of the Greek alphabet;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
omega \o*me"ga\ ([=o]*m[=e]"g[.a] or [=o]*m[=a]"g[.a] or
[=o]"m[-e]*g[.a]; 277), n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'w^ me`ga, i.e., the
great or long o. Cf. Mickle.]
1. The last letter of the Greek alphabet. See Alpha.
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2. The last; the end; hence, death.
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"Omega! thou art Lord," they said. --Tennyson.
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Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending; hence, the
chief, the whole. --Rev. i. 8.
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The alpha and omega of science. --Sir J.
Herschel.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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: omega, Z]
2: the last (24th) letter of the Greek alphabet
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
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://ens.fr/omega/).
(1997-11-20)