English Dictionary: omega | by the DICT Development Group |
6 results for omega | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Omega \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. [bd]Omega! thou art Lord,[b8] 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. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Omega, GA (city, FIPS 58184) Location: 31.33833 N, 83.59560 W Population (1990): 912 (384 housing units) Area: 4.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 31775 Omega, OK Zip code(s): 73764 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Omega 1. language from Austria. ["Type-Safe Object-Oriented Programming with Prototypes - The Concept of Omega", G. Blaschek, Structured Programming 12:217-225, 1991]. 2. {Unicode} character set. {(http://www.ens.fr/omega/)}. (1997-11-20) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Omega (Rev. 1:8), the last letter in the Greek alphabet. (See {A}.) | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Omega, the last letter of the Greek alphabet; long O |