omega

From Middle English, from Ancient Greek ὦ μέγα (ô méga), meaning “great ω” (omega is a long vowel in Ancient Greek).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊmɪɡə/, /ˈəʊmiːɡə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌoʊˈmeɪɡə/, /oʊˈmɛɡə/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɡə, -eɪɡə

omega (plural omegas or omegala)

1. 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.
   • 2013, Albert Schachter, Fabienne Marchand, “Fresh Light on the Institutions and Religious Life of Thespiai: Sixe New Inscriptions from the Thespiai Survey”, in Paraskevi Martzavou, Nikolaos Papazarkadas, editors, Epigraphical Approaches to the Post-Classical, Polis, page 284:

     The fact that the letter was incised above the line indicates that it is probably an omega.

2. (often capitalized) The end; the final, last or ultimate in a sequence.

   alpha and omega

   • 1978, New International Version, Revelation 22:13:

     I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

   • 2012, FX Moore, Confed: 2721: Xenocide War, page 383:

     And there is always the Omega Option. At any time you can go to Manhome, go down to the vaults, lift the black cover on your clone's stasis chamber, and push the black button.

3. (physics) Angular velocity; symbol: ω.
   • 2013, Issues in General Physics Research, page 1084:

     The ratio between the rho and omega cross section is obtained.

4. (set theory) A transfinite ordinal number referring to the next position after ordering a countably infinite set.
5. (slang) An omega male.
6. (finance) The percentage change in an option value divided by the percentage change in the underlying asset's price.
7. (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a person of a submissive secondary sex driven by biology, magic, or other means to bond with an alpha, with males of this type often being able to get pregnant.
   • 2013, Kristina Busse, “Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse”, in Anne Jamison, editor, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World‎^[1], page 317:

     Often omegas go into heat and release pheromones that drive alphas wild.

   • 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 5:

     By writing a male character as an omega, experiences of being treated as other in female-coded ways are imagined to be experienced by a character who represents the male norm.

   • 2018, Laura Campillo Arnaiz, “When the Omega Empath Met the Alpha Doctor: An Analysis of Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics in the Hannibal Fandom”, in Ashton Spacey, editor, The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction, page 126:

     Sweet as Peaches on the Tongue can be defined as the typical dark A/B/O story, wherein a rich alpha gentleman (Dr. Hannibal Lecter) comes across a very young, virginal omega (Will Graham) by accident.

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): elasticity, lambda

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)

• (Greek-script letter names) alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega

omega (not comparable)

1. (slang, largely prepositive) Ultimate; of the highest degree. Massive, ineffable.

   Omega props, dude.

omega (not comparable)

1. (slang, largely prepositive) Ultimately, most, supremely.

   Whatever your plan is, I just think this idea's omega stupid. Ain't you got something better?

• Ogema

• IPA^(key): (Central) [uˈmɛ.ɣə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [oˈme.ɣə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [oˈme.ɣa]

omega f (plural omegues)

1. Omega; the Greek letter Ω (lowercase ω)

• bloqueig en omega

• ómega

• IPA^(key): [ˈomɛɡa]

omega n or f

1. omega (Greek letter)

when feminine:

Indeclinable when neuter.

• “omega”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “omega”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “omega”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Ancient Greek ὦ μέγα (ô méga).

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omega f or m (plural omegas, diminutive omegaatje n)

1. omega (Greek letter)

• omega on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

• IPA^(key): /ˈomeɡɑ/, [ˈo̞me̞ɡɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -omeɡɑ
• Syllabification^(key): o‧me‧ga
• Hyphenation^(key): ome‧ga

omega

1. alternative spelling of oomega

• “omega”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /oˈmɛ.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -ɛɡa
• Hyphenation: o‧mè‧ga

omega m or f (invariable)

1. omega (letter; scientific symbol)

omega

1. Rōmaji transcription of オメガ

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὦ μέγα (ô méga).

• IPA^(key): /ɔˈmɛ.ɡa/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɡa
• Syllabification: o‧me‧ga

omega f

1. omega (Greek letter Ω, ω)

• omega in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• omega in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Greek ωμέγα (oméga).

omega m (uncountable)

1. omega

• IPA^(key): /oˈmeɡa/ [oˈme.ɣ̞a]
• Rhymes: -eɡa
• Syllabification: o‧me‧ga

omega f (plural omegas)

1. omega; the Greek letter Ω, ω

• “omega”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024