OMEGA

omega

(noun) the last (24th) letter of the Greek alphabet

omega

(noun) the ending of a series or sequence; “the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end”--Revelation

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

omega (plural omegas or omegala)

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.

(often capitalized) The end; the final, last or ultimate in a sequence.

(physics) Angular velocity; symbol: ω.

(slang) An omega male.

(finance) The percentage change in an option value divided by the percentage change in the underlying asset's price.

(fandom) In omegaverse fiction, a person of a sexually-submissive (and sometimes secondary) gender/sex that is driven by biology, magic, or other means to bond with an alpha, with males of this type often being able to get pregnant.

Synonyms

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

Hypernyms

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

Anagrams

• Ogema

Source: Wiktionary

O*me"ga, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. Mickle.]

1. The last letter of the Greek alphabet. See Alpha.

2. The last; the end; hence, death. "Omega! thou art Lord," 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition