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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a tiny or scarcely detectable amount;
[syn: shred, scintilla, whit, iota, tittle, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, smidge]

2. the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Iota \I*o"ta\, n. [L., fr. Gr. 'iw^ta. See Jot.] [1913 Webster] 1. The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet ([iota]) corresponding with the English i. [1913 Webster] 2. [from iota being the smallest letter in the Greek alphabet.] A very small quantity or degree; a jot; a particle. [1913 Webster +PJC] They never depart an iota from the authentic formulas of tyranny and usurpation. --Burke. [1913 Webster] Iota subscript (Gr. Gram.), iota written beneath a preceding vowel, as a,, h,, w,, -- done when iota is silent. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

iota n 1: a tiny or scarcely detectable amount [syn: shred, scintilla, whit, iota, tittle, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, smidge] 2: the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

Iota A specification language. ["The Iota Programming System", R. Nakajima er al, Springer 1983]. (1994-12-08)