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omega
/oʊˈmeɪ.ɡə/
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What does omega mean?
noun
- 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.
- The end; the final, last or ultimate in a sequence.
- Angular velocity; symbol: ω.
More meanings (7)
noun
- A transfinite ordinal number referring to the next position after ordering a countably infinite set.
- (slang) An omega male.
- The percentage change in an option value divided by the percentage change in the underlying asset's price.
- (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.
- Alternative letter-case form of omega.
adjective
- (slang) Ultimate; of the highest degree. Massive, ineffable.
adverb
- (slang) Ultimately, most, supremely.
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This is the alpha and the omega of every thing observable in the examination of simple people.
The Greek letters "Alpha" and "Omega" had reached England almost as soon as Christianity had, and the old-time doctor triumphantly used them in his pow-wows.
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He was versed in patent lore from Alpha to Omega; and as the trial proceeded, he became convinced that the Bell patent was valid.
Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.
Is He not the "Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last"?