omega
/ˈəʊmɪɡə
/noun
1The last letter of the Greek alphabet (Ω, ω), transliterated as ‘o’ or ‘ō’.Ah, yes, the round letters are quite small; yes, the omicrons and omegas seem to hover, there, in the middle of the line....
- Alpha, rho, tau, sigma, omega, Ash went over the letters he saw in his mind while Lari just stared, apparently in her own little world.
- After all, her father was a maths teacher who knew his alpha from his omega.
1.1 [usually as modifier] The last of a series: the omega point...
- There are dangers to thinking of time as headed inevitably to some omega point, of us being on some inevitable road to Armageddon.
- For a Pack werewolf, such a handicap would condemn me to omega status - the bottom of the heap.
- That's the beginning and the end, the alpha and the omega, and there's no exceptions.
1.2 (Omega) [followed by Latin genitive] Astronomy The twenty-fourth star in a constellation: Omega Scorpii...
- Finally there is Omega Scorpii, made up of two stars which. can be seen separately with the naked eye; the magnitudes are. 4.0 and 4.3.
- Omega Scorpii, a star, looks like a fifth moon, so don't be deceived.
- Omega Centauri has been known to be an unusual globular cluster for a long time.
symbol
1 (Ω) Ohm(s): a 100Ω resistor
2 (ω) Angular frequency.
Origin
From Greek ō mega 'the great O'.