“Coffee, the favorite drink of the civilized world.” – Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States
EPSILON
epsilon
(noun) the 5th letter of the Greek alphabet
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
epsilon (countable and uncountable, plural epsilons or epsila)
The name for the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, ε or Ε, preceded by delta (Δ, δ) and followed by zeta (Ζ, ζ).
(phonetics) In IPA, the phonetic symbol É› that represents the open-mid front unrounded vowel.
(mathematics) An arbitrarily small quantity.
(computing, colloquial) A negligible effect.
(finance) The percentage change in an option value with respect to the underlying dividend yield.
Hypernyms
• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)
Anagrams
• pile ons, pile-ons, piles on, pilones, pinoles, sinople
Source: Wiktionary
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INTUITIVELY
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