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theta
/ˈθeɪtə/
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What does theta mean?
noun
- The eighth letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, ninth in Old Greek: Θ, θ.
- The measure of an angle.
- Pitch angle; the angle between an aircraft's longitudinal axis and the horizontal plane.
More meanings (4)
noun
- The sensitivity of the value of a derivative with respect to time; the "time decay".
- Designating a level of brain activity as measured by electroencephalography having a frequency of between four and seven cycles per second (associated with drowsiness in adults).
- The voiceless dental fricative represented by θ.
- A member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
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/ˈθeɪtə/
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He was also invited to join the “Lambs”—Redmondese for Lamba Theta—a compliment rarely paid to a Freshman.
As at Spiennes, the shafts were connected by galleries from three to five feet high, and one of theta was twenty-seven feet long.
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They were probably scattered around in space, disjecta membra, floating hither and thither, in one place a stream of stones, in another a volume of gas; while the two heads had fled away, like the fugitive presidents of a couple of broken banks, to the Canadian refuge of "Theta Centauri"--shorn of their splendors and reduced to first principles.
The Greeks added to the ancient alphabet the upsilon, shaped like our V or Y, the two forms being used at first indifferently: they added the X sign; they converted the t of the Phoenicians into th, or theta; z and s into signs for double consonants; they turned the Phoenician y (yod) into i (iota).