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omega

UK/ˈəʊ.mɪ.ɡə//oʊˈmeɪ.ɡə/

omega noun: 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.

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Noun (1)

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.
    • The fact that the letter was incised above the line indicates that it is probably an omega.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...
  2. (capitalized, often) The end; the final, last or ultimate in a sequence.
    • alpha and omega
    • I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.1978, New International Version, Revelation 22:13
  3. Angular velocity; symbol: ω.
    • The ratio between the rho and omega cross section is obtained.2013, Issues in General Physics Research, page 1084
    Synonyms:
    elasticity, lambda
  4. A transfinite ordinal number referring to the next position after ordering a countably infinite set.
  5. (slang) An omega male.
  6. The percentage change in an option value divided by the percentage change in the underlying asset's price.
  7. (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.
    • Often omegas go into heat and release pheromones that drive alphas wild.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, page 317
    • 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.2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 5

Adjective

omega (not comparable)

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

Adverb

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?

Noun (2) capitalized: Omega

Omega (plural Omegas)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of omega.

omega meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

omega in Hindi

ओमेगा, ओमैगा, ऑमेगा

omega in Tamil

ஒமேகா, ஒமெகா

omega in Marathi

ओमेगा, ऑमेगा, ओमीगा

omega in Urdu

اومیگا
More languagesFewer languages
omega in Bengali
ওমেগা, ঒মেগা
omega in Telugu
ఒమేగా, ఒమెగా, ఓమెగా
omega in Malayalam
ഒമേഗ, ഒമേഗാ, ഒമെഗ
omega in Kannada
ಒಮೆಗಾ, ಒಮೇಗಾ
omega in Punjabi
ਓਮੇਗਾ, ਓਮੈਗਾ, ਒ਮੇਗਾ
omega in Gujarati
ઓમેગા
omega in Odia
ଓମେଗା, ଒ମେଗା
omega in Nepali
ओमेगा, ऒमेगा
omega in Tagalog
omega, wakas
omega in Arabic
أُومِيغَا ʔumīḡā, أُومِيجَا ʔumīgā
omega in Malay
omega
omega in Persian
امگا omegâ
omega in Thai
โอเมกา oo-mee-gâa

Examples of omega in a sentence

  • All the properties you have insisted that omega must have, on pain of being found inconsistent.
  • Chemukh had once been in danger of becoming the omega female.
  • Omega employs a minimal cost flow analysis on an overlap graph to generate unitigs.

All 27 example sentences with omega

Synonyms of omega

Forms of omega

pluralomegas
pluralomegala
pluralOmegas

Plural of omega: omegas or omegala

Origin of omega

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

Words formed from omega

Phrases with omega

Words that rhyme with omega

Questions about omega

What does omega mean?
Omega means 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.
What is omega in Hindi?
Omega in Hindi is ओमेगा, ओमैगा, ऑमेगा. See Omega meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is omega?
Omega can be a noun, an adjective or an adverb.
How do you pronounce omega?
Omega is pronounced /ˈəʊ.mɪ.ɡə/ (UK).
What is the plural of omega?
The plural of omega is omegas.

Words near omega in the dictionary

  1. ome
  2. omedhaun
  3. omedhauns
  4. omee
  5. omees
  6. omega
  7. omega female
  8. omega females
  9. omega male
  10. omega males
  11. omega point

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Adapted from Wiktionary: omega (page history and authors); Omega (page history and authors); omega (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); omega (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); omega (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); omega (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); omega (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); omega (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); omega (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); omega (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); omega (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); omega (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); omega (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); omega (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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