omega

English Online Dictionary. What means omega‎? What does omega mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Ancient Greek ὦ μέγα (ô méga), meaning “great ω” (omega is a long vowel in Ancient Greek).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊmɪɡə/, /ˈəʊmiːɡə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌoʊˈmeɪɡə/, /oʊˈmɛɡə/
• Rhymes: -ɛɡə, -eɪɡə

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: Ω; lowercase: ω.
2. (often capitalized) The end; the final, last or ultimate in a sequence.

   alpha and omega
3. (physics) Angular velocity; symbol: ω.
4. (set theory) A transfinite ordinal number referring to the next position after ordering a countably infinite set.
5. (slang) An omega male.
6. (finance) The percentage change in an option value divided by the percentage change in the underlying asset's price.
7. (fandom 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.
   • 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.

Synonyms

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

Hypernyms

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

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• (Greek-script letter names) alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega

Adjective

omega (not comparable)

1. (slang, largely prepositive) Ultimate; of the highest degree. Massive, ineffable.

   Omega props, dude.

Adverb

omega (not comparable)

1. (slang, largely prepositive) Ultimately, most, supremely.

Anagrams

• Ogema

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [uˈmɛ.ɣə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [oˈme.ɣə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [oˈme.ɣa]

Noun

omega f (plural omegues)

1. Omega; the Greek letter Ω (lowercase ω)

Derived terms

• bloqueig en omega

Czech

Alternative forms

• ómega

Noun

omega n or f

1. omega (Greek letter)

Declension

when feminine:

Indeclinable when neuter.

Dutch

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὦ μέγα (ô méga).

Pronunciation

Noun

omega f or m (plural omegas, diminutive omegaatje n)

1. omega (Greek letter)

Further reading

• omega on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈomeɡɑ/, [ˈo̞me̞ɡɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -omeɡɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): ome‧ga

Noun

omega

1. Alternative spelling of oomega.

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “omega”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈmɛ.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -ɛɡa
• Hyphenation: o‧mè‧ga

Noun

omega m or f (invariable)

1. omega (letter; scientific symbol)

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὦ μέγα (ô méga).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔˈmɛ.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -ɛɡa
• Syllabification: o‧me‧ga

Noun

omega f

1. omega (Greek letter Ω, ω)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• omega in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• omega in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek ωμέγα (oméga).

Noun

omega m (uncountable)

1. omega

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈmeɡa/ [oˈme.ɣ̞a]
• Rhymes: -eɡa
• Syllabification: o‧me‧ga

Noun

omega f (plural omegas)

1. omega; the Greek letter Ω, ω

Derived terms

Further reading

• “omega”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10