Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The sixth letter of the Greek alphabet. See Table at alphabet.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The sixth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding to the English Z.
- n. Zu + Zv − Z (u + v) = ksn u. sn verb sn (u + v).
- n. A little closet or chamber: applied by some writers to the room over the porch of a Christian church where the porter or sexton lived and kept the church documents.
Wiktionary
- n. The name of the sixth letter of the modern Greek alphabet (Ζ, ζ) preceded by epsilon (Ε, ε) and followed by eta, (Η, η); or the seventh letter in the ancient Greek alphabet, in which it is preceded by digamma (Ϝ, ϝ)
- n. mathematics A mathematical function formally known as the Riemann zeta function.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A Greek letter [ζ] corresponding to our z.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the 6th letter of the Greek alphabet
Etymologies
- From the Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zēta). (Wiktionary)
- Greek zēta, of Phoenician origin; see zyn in Semitic roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Riemann had found one very special imaginary landscape, generated by something called the zeta function, which he discovered held the secret to prime numbers.”
“For the prefix challenged, a zeta is a thousand exas.”
“He realized that he could use something called the zeta function to build a landscape where the peaks and troughs in a three-dimensional graph correspond to the outputs of the function.”
“In analytic number theory, a multiplicative version of the Fourier-Laplace transform is often used, namely the zeta function, can be expressed neatly in terms of Mellin transforms. of complex numbers to a formal Laurent series then this becomes a (formal) Fourier series expansion on the unit circle.”
“Well, that may be true of some of the more general zeta functions (like Ihara), but this article is about Riemann's zeta, which is.”
“I then looked up and said, "I guess I'll call you 'zeta' now.”
“Better would be to link them to infinite series, in case, say, they just heard about some famous problem called the "Riemann Hypothesis" involving something called "zeta", but they haven't encountered infinite series before they reach the page.”
“Rcd3 (CG8231) is homologous to the human T-complex protein 1 subunit zeta, which is needed for proper tubulin folding [”
“zeta", but they haven't encountered infinite series before they reach the page.”
“It's designed to make the 14 year old zeta male in you go, Coooooool!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘zeta’.
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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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extra room
An add-on to Trivet's list elbow room and Lampbane's list 2BDRM W/VU that tries not to duplicate Trivet's and Lampbane's existing rooms. Virtual, allegorical and proverbial rooms accepted.
scullery, suite, porch, screened porch, breakfast room, atheneum, attic, hall, dressing room, passageway, corridor, fusuma and 126 more...
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phrontistery-z
from phrontistery.info
zabaglione, zabernism, zabra, zabuton, zaffre, zaftig, zaitech, zakuska, zalambdodont, zamacueca, zamarra, zambomba and 208 more...
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TECH - web application frameworks
object-oriented p..., ALGOL, validation, Erlang, markup language, Python, hibernate, framework, Apache, template, mapper, Java and 310 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Extrude
tchotchke, lugubrious, inspissated, fissiparous, vituperation, quondam, absolutisation, artisanal, funicular, sacerdotal, abstruse, circumspect and 38 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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Discovered Scrabble Words
Oh, that little smiling teacher tile in my Scrabble app. He teaches me so much.
lovage, khaf, tititi, leet, ketol, fon, ono, dunelike, braw, bocci, lutz, fano and 132 more...
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Greek
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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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Microcars
Mostly model names, a few brand names and even the occasional colour shade or technical detail thrown in. Excellent resource here.
messerschmitt, tourenfahrzeug-ge..., goggomobil, bavarian blue, buckboard, zeta, frisky sprint, atlas babycar, coccinelle, rubber-in-torsion, avolette, tourisme and 113 more...
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zetadiction
words that embody life
hydrae, kleptocracy, curmudgeon, wordie, risotto, qi, pulchritudinous, micropolitan, schadenfreude, neolithic, experimentalist, zeta and 477 more...
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Ancient Borders
This is really a Vanished Lands II (the owner of the original having vanished himself). I am stealing also, however, from Transtemporal AAA, Places - real and imagined, and States of mind.
...manchuria, nubia, abyssinia, persia, caucasus, albion, byzantium, gaul, jurchen, uruk, ئۇيغۇر, tunguz and 107 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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Greek Alphabet
The letters in the Greek alphabet, with a bit of history on each one.
omega, psi, chi, phi, upsilon, tau, sigma, rho, pi, omicron, xi, nu and 12 more...
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abc's
alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu and 12 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for zeta.
ruzuzu "3. Zu + Zv − Z (u + v) = ksn u. sn verb sn (u + v)."
--Cent. Dict. Sep 6, 2011
madmouth also an old nation in (roughly) present-day Montenegro. May 4, 2009