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Omega

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omega
the 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet (Ω, ), a long vowel, transliterated as o or o
Omega [ō′meg·ə]
(navigation)
A worldwide radio navigation system providing navigational parameters by phase comparison of very-low-frequency (10 to 14 kilohertz), continuous-wave radio signals; terminated on September 30, 1997.
angular frequency (ω)
The frequency of a periodic quantity multiplied by 2p; expressed in radians.
1.(programming)Omega - A prototype-based object-oriented language from Austria.

["Type-Safe Object-Oriented Programming with Prototypes - The Concept of Omega", G. Blaschek, Structured Programming 12:217-225, 1991].
2.(text, tool)Omega - A successor to TeX extended to handle the Unicode character set.

http://ens.fr/omega/.
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The outlying villages, they say, are by them called {kappa omega mu alpha iota}, by the Athenians {delta eta mu iota}: and they assume that Comedians were so named not from {kappa omega mu 'alpha zeta epsilon iota nu}, 'to revel,' but because they wandered from village to village (kappa alpha tau alpha / kappa omega mu alpha sigma), being excluded contemptuously from the city.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
And if it be my Alpha and Omega that everything heavy shall become light, every body a dancer, and every spirit a bird: and verily, that is my Alpha and Omega
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
Two abysmal beasts sprang at each other's throats that day beneath the shadow of earth's oldest cliffs--the man of now and the man-thing of the earliest, forgotten then, imbued by the same deathless passion that has come down unchanged through all the epochs, periods and eras of time from the beginning, and which shall continue to the incalculable end--woman, the imperishable Alpha and Omega of life.
The Land That Time Forgot by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
 
 
 
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