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iota
the ninth letter in the Greek alphabet (Ι, ι), a vowel or semivowel, transliterated as i or j
(language, specification)Iota - A specification language.

["The Iota Programming System", R. Nakajima er al, Springer 1983].
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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
She was growing a little stout, but it did not seem to detract an iota from the grace of every step, pose, gesture.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate View in context
There is not an iota of truth in it--certainly not.
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