omega

Noun

Synonyms: Z

WordNet 3.0

the ending of a series or sequence“the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end — Revelation”Synonyms: Z
the last (24th) letter of the Greek alphabet

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. [1913 Webster]

2.The last; the end; hence, death. [1913 Webster]

"Omega! thou art Lord," they said.— Tennyson.[1913 Webster]

Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending; hence, the chief, the whole. --Rev. i. 8. [1913 Webster]

The alpha and omega of science.— Sir J. Herschel.[1913 Webster]

Omega

1.<programming> 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.<text, tool> A successor to TeX extended to handle the Unicode character set.

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