Theta

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The eighth letter of the Greek alphabet. See Table at alphabet.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. the name for the eighth letter οf the Modern Greek alphabet, ninth in Old Greek.
  • n. The measure of an angle.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A letter of the Greek alphabet corresponding to th in English; -- sometimes called the unlucky letter, from being used by the judges on their ballots in passing condemnation on a prisoner, it being the first letter of the Greek qa`natos, death.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. As used in formulæ of mathematics and engineering, theta (θ) usually denotes:
  • n. the entropy, or thermodynamic function or factor by which the absolute temperature is to be multiplied to indicate an amount of heat energy.
  • n. The angle, in angular measure, or at the center, through which a radius vector has swept from a zero position, or through which a line has swept in a rotation.
  • n. A letter of the Greek alphabet corresponding to the English th in thin, etc.
  • n. A sort of complication of an exponential function, being expressed by a series from n =—∞ to n = + ∞ of terms the logarithm of each of which is na + 2 na. A theta function of several variables, x1, x2, … xn, is Σ exp. (φ + Σmxn xn), where φ is a quadratic function of the constants m1, m2, … mn.
  • n. A function which occurs in probabilities, and is expressed by the integral fe—tdt.
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  • n. the 8th letter of the Greek alphabet
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    theta wave   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Beta    Zeta    beta    data    peseta    zeta   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    rho    zeta    phi    gamma    Vega    omega    alpha    delta    mcafee    tetryon