theta

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Transcriber's note: The phrase "theos apo mechanes" was transliterated from the Greek as follows: "theos"--theta, epsilon, omicron, sigma; "apo"--alpha, pi, omicron; "mechanes"--mu, eta, chi, alpha, nu, eta, sigma QUADRIVIAD, ll.

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  1. noun The eighth letter of the Greek alphabet. See Table at alphabet.

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  • Therefore all things without exception honor theta, and exalt its out flowing operation. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The agrBD (Cp) knockout mutant did not express the theta-toxin gene and transcription of the alpha - and kappa-toxin genes was also significantly decreased in the mutant strain. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • It belongs to helicase superfamily 2, and shares homology with the human DNA polymerase theta (Pol theta), —  BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • Our present structures allowed reasonable homology model building of the helicase region of human Pol theta, indicating the strong conformational conservation between archaea and eukarya. —  BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • Theory showing where this is no longer the case is defined by the Taylor Series Expansion of Sin (theta). —  RealClimate
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  1. Greek thēta, of Phoenician origin; akin to Hebrew ṭêt, teth.

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  1. from Latin theta, from Greek θη̄=τα, the letter Θ, θ, ϑ, originally an aspirated t; in modern Greek and in the English pron. of ancient Greek, pronounced as English th.
 

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