Omega - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Omega :  (noun)
1: the ending of a series or sequence; "the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end"--Revelation [syn: Z]
2: the last (24th) letter of the Greek alphabet

Based on WordNet 2.0

Omega : \O*me"ga\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, i.e., the great or long o. Cf. Mickle.] 1. The last letter of the Greek alphabet. See Alpha.

2. The last; the end; hence, death.

``Omega! thou art Lord,'' they said. --Tennyson.

Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending; hence, the chief, the whole. --Rev. i. 8.

The alpha and omega of science. --Sir J. Herschel.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Omega : 

1. 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. A successor to TeX extended to handle the Unicode character set.

http://www.ens.fr/omega/)">(http://www.ens.fr/omega/).

(1997-11-20)



Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:

Omega, GA (city, FIPS 58184) Location: 31.33833 N, 83.59560 W Population (1990): 912 (384 housing units) Area: 4.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 31775 Omega, OK Zip code(s): 73764

Based on U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [Census_Database]:

Omega :  (Rev. 1:8), the last letter in the Greek alphabet. (See A.)



Based on Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [Bible_Dictionary]:

Omega, the last letter of the Greek alphabet; long O



Based on Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [Bible_Dictionary]:
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