Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The 24th letter of the Greek alphabet. See Table at alphabet.
- n. The end.
- n. See omega baryon.
- n. See omega meson.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The last letter of the Greek alphabet (
Ω ,ω ); hence, figuratively, the last of anything.
Wiktionary
- n. 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.
- n. The end; the final, last or ultimate in a series.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The last letter of the Greek alphabet. See alpha.
- n. The last; the end; hence, death.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the last (24th) letter of the Greek alphabet
- n. the ending of a series or sequence
Etymologies
- From Middle English, from Ancient Greek ὦ μέγα (mega, "large") (omega is a long vowel in Ancient Greek). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Greek ō mega, large o (from its being a long vowel in Greek) : ō, the letter o + mega, neuter of megas, large, great; see meg- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Fish that are rich in omega-3s and are low-risk include salmon, shrimp, canned light tuna (limit white tuna to 6 ounces a week), sardines, pollock, catfish and tilapia.”
“Fish (and fish oil) lovers weighing these questions on a personal level can help by choosing sources that are fished or farmed responsibly, that are high in omega-3s and low in environmental contaminants.”
Environmental Defense Fund: Is Eating Seafood Regularly Really Such a Good Thing?
“Foods high in omega-3 fatty acids prevent men from sudden death of a heart attack, according to the American Dietetic Association.”
The Huffington Post: LIVESTRONG.COM: Diet Essentials for Men
“The Glasers are now conducting studies testing whether regular supplements of fish oil, rich in omega-3 fatty acids, can mitigate some of the physical symptoms of stress on the immune system.”
“Mike, I believe that omega is also a term used for “one who cannot spell.” —”
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“Here the advantages of sardines, which are high in omega-3s, come to the fore.”
“Research has also shown that you can greatly cut your risk of silent inflammation by supplementing your meals with ultra-refined fish oil, particularly by increasing the amount of long-chain omega-3 essential fatty acid such as EPA and DHA concentrate found in oily cold water fish and fish oil.”
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“Dr. Sears and Zone Labs even offer OmegaRx, a line of ultra-refined long-chain omega-3 fatty acid supplements.”
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“This is a great mid week meal - very quick and healthy, especially for kids as the trout is high in omega 3 ....”
“It was much more respectable than the general consensus of opinion that if a school teacher can devise a question a child cannot answer, or overhear it calling omega omeega, he or she may beat the child viciously.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘omega’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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Brand Theft Auto
A marque list for cars--models or companies who've used common words as their name.
explorer, navigator, frontier, mustang, quest, cougar, sidekick, legend, legacy, ranger, voyager, civic and 266 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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The weird, the wonderful and the plai...
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
acidulous, aprosdoketon, higgledy-piggledy, lexicographical, ninja, audacious, somnabulist, shivaree, amorphous, quidnunc, glib, melancholy and 353 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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religion
who is this god person, anyway? (--Douglas Adams)
sachristy, vestry, diocese, papal, cardinal, pope, polygamy, seven, father, chaplain, vestments, blessing and 227 more...
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Ultimates
ultimate, penultimate, The Ultimates, Ultimate Frisbee, Ultimate, Ultimate!, preantepenultimate, antepenultimate, Ultimate Fighting..., ultimate cause, somersaultimate, resultimate and 25 more...
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Behind the Sofa
The monsters of Doctor Who.
dalek, cyberman, sycorax, pig slave, macra, carrionite, judoon, plasmavore, racnoss, slitheen, silurian, ood and 47 more...
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Last Words
Endings, results, and pinnacles. The ideal here is to somehow imply the paradoxical concept of "after-endings".
consequence, aftermath, finality, outcome, postmundane, endgame, redound, cloture, bourne, meridian, memento mori, psychopomp and 72 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Letters
See also The Phonetic alphabet by oroboros.
aye, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, eff, gee, aitch, eye, jay, kay and 452 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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parody's Words
defenestrate, behemoth, floss, macchiato, glom, emu, alpaca, crocheted, ampersand, charade, conflate, salacious and 193 more...
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samuraizack's Words
floccinaucinihili..., pneumonoultramicr..., bombastic, existentialistic, velocipede, aglet, anatomical snuffbox, wonk, tang, funambulist, quakebuttock, flews and 390 more...
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enjoidooks's Words
rastafari, facetious, desultory, dubiously, ineluctable, incarnadine, diapason, alembic, empathy, feckless, transcendence, thus and 190 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for omega.
garyth123 Ω Chaitin's constant Jan 2, 2009