Meaning of OMEGA
Pronunciation: | | owm'egu
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- [n] the last (24th) letter of the Greek alphabet
- [n] the ending of a series or sequence; "the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end"--Revelation
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| Synonyms: | | Z |
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| See Also: | | alphabetic character, conclusion, ending, finish, Greek alphabet, letter, letter of the alphabet | |
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| Definition: | | Omega Description not available. more details ... |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \O*me"ga\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, i.e., the great or long o.
Cf. {Mickle}.]
1. The last letter of the Greek alphabet. See {Alpha}.
2. The last; the end; hence, death.
``Omega! thou art Lord,'' they said. --Tennyson.
{Alpha and Omega}, the beginning and the ending; hence, the
chief, the whole. --Rev. i. 8.
The alpha and omega of science. --Sir J.
Herschel.
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Computing Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | 1. 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. A successor to TeX extended to handle the Unicode character set. . |
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Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | (Rev. 1:8), the last letter in the Greek alphabet. (See A.) |
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| Definition: | | the last letter of the Greek alphabet; long O |
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| Related Terms: | | apodosis, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, coda, conclusion, consummation, crack of doom, culmination, curtain, curtains, death, decease, denouement, destination, destiny, doom, effect, end, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, expiration, fate, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, goal, izzard, last, last breath, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, payoff, period, peroration, quietus, resolution, resting place, stoppage, stopping place, swan song, term, terminal, termination, terminus, windup, Z |
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