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English Dictionary: Theta by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
theta
n
  1. the 8th letter of the Greek alphabet
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Theta \The"ta\, n. [L., fr. Gr. qh^ta, the Greek letter [theta],
      [THETA].]
      A letter of the Greek alphabet corresponding to th in
      English; -- sometimes called the unlucky letter, from being
      used by the judges on their ballots in passing condemnation
      on a prisoner, it being the first letter of the Greek
      qa`natos, death.
  
      {Theta function} (Math.), one of a group of functions used in
            developing the properties of elliptic functions.
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