Epsilon : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Epsilon	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Epsilon
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
epsilon n the 5th letter of the Greek alphabet
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
epsilon [see {delta}] 1. n. A small quantity of anything. "The cost is epsilon." 2. adj. Very small, negligible; less than {marginal}. "We can get this feature for epsilon cost." 3. `within epsilon of': close enough to be indistinguishable for all practical purposes, even closer than being `within delta of'. "That's not what I asked for, but it's within epsilon of what I wanted." Alternatively, it may mean not close enough, but very little is required to get it there: "My program is within epsilon of working."
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
EPSILON A {macro} language with high level features including strings and lists, developed by A.P. Ershov at Novosibirsk in 1967. EPSILON was used to implement {ALGOL 68} on the {M-220}. ["Application of the Machine-Oriented Language Epsilon to Software Development", I.V. Pottosin et al, in Machine Oriented Higher Level Languages, W. van der Poel, N-H 1974, pp. 417-434]. [{Jargon File}] (1995-05-10)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
epsilon 1. The fifth letter of the Greek alphabet. 2. (From the Hungarian mathematician {Paul Erdos}) A very small, insignificant, or negligible quantity of something. The use of epsilon is from the {epsilon-delta method} of {proof} in {differential calculus}. (2001-07-06)