different between omicron vs omega

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ? ?????? (ò mikrón).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??m.?.?k??n/, /??m??k??n/, /?o?.m?.?k??n/, /??m.?.k??n/, /??m?k??n/, /?o?.m?.k??n/

Noun

omicron (plural omicrons or omicra)

1. The 15th letter of Classical and Modern Greek, and the 16th in Ancient and Old Greek.

Translations

Anagrams

• moronic, oncomir

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.mi.k???/, /?.mi.k??n/

Noun

omicron m (plural omicron or omicrons)

1. omicron (Greek letter)

Usage notes

The plural form omicrons is a product of the 1990 spelling reforms.

Further reading

• “omicron” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

omicron m (invariable)

1. omicron (Greek letter)

Anagrams

• cromino

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Ancient Greek ? ???? (ô méga), meaning “big ?” (omega is a long vowel in Ancient Greek).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???m???/, /???mi???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /o??m???/, /?o??me???/

Noun

omega (plural omegas or omegala)

1. 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: ?; lowercase: ?.
   • 2013, Albert Schachter & Fabienne Marchand, "Fresh Light on the Institutions and Religious Life of Thespiai: Sixe New Inscriptions from the Thespiai Survey", page 284 in Paraskevi Martzavou & Nikolaos Papazarkadas (editors), Epigraphical Approaches to the Post-Classical Polis

     The fact that the letter was incised above the line indicates that it is probably an omega.

2. (often capitalized) The end; the final, last or ultimate in a sequence.
   • 1978, New International Version, Revelation 22:13

     I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

   • 2012, FX Moore, Confed: 2721: Xenocide War, page 383

     And there is always the Omega Option. At any time you can go to Manhome, go down to the vaults, lift the black cover on your clone's stasis chamber, and push the black button.

3. (physics) Angular velocity; symbol: ?.
   • 2013, Issues in General Physics Research: 2013 Edition, page 1084

     The ratio between the rho and omega cross section is obtained.

4. (slang) An omega male.
5. (finance) The percentage change in an option value divided by the percentage change in the underlying asset's price.
6. (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a person of a sexually-submissive (and sometimes secondary) gender/sex that is driven by biology, magic, or other means to bond with an alpha, with males of this type often being able to get pregnant.
   • 2013, Kristina Busse, "Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse", in Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World (ed. Anne Jamison), page 317:

     Often omegas go into heat and release pheromones that drive alphas wild.

   • 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 5:

     By writing a male character as an omega, experiences of being treated as other in female-coded ways are imagined to be experienced by a character who represents the male norm.

   • 2018, Laura Campillo Arnaiz, "When the Omega Empath Met the Alpha Doctor: An Analysis of Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics in the Hannibal Fandom", in The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction (ed. Ashton Spacey), page 126:

     Sweet as Peaches on the Tongue can be defined as the typical dark A/B/O story, wherein a rich alpha gentleman (Dr. Hannibal Lecter) comes across a very young, virginal omega (Will Graham) by accident.

Synonyms

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): elasticity, lambda

Hypernyms

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)

Derived terms

• antiomega
• omega-3 fatty acid

Translations

Anagrams

• Ogema

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /o?m?.??/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /u?m?.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o?me.?a/

Noun

omega f (plural omegues)

1. Omega; the Greek letter ? (lowercase ?).

Czech

Alternative forms

• ómega

Noun

omega f

1. omega (Greek letter)

Finnish

Noun

omega

1. Alternative spelling of oomega.

Declension

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?m?.?a/
• Rhymes: -??a

Noun

omega m or f (invariable)

1. omega (letter; scientific symbol)

Romanian

Etymology

From Greek ????? (oméga)

Noun

omega m (uncountable)

1. omega

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?me?a/, [o?me.??a]

Noun

omega f (plural omegas)

1. omega; the Greek letter ?, ?