zeta

ze·ta (z

, z

The sixth letter of the Greek alphabet. See Table at alphabet.

[Greek zta, of Phoenician origin; see zyn in Semitic roots.]

zeta [ˈziːtə]

(Linguistics / Letters of the Alphabet (Foreign)) the sixth letter in the Greek alphabet (Ζ, ζ), a consonant, transliterated as z

[from Greek, of Semitic origin; compare Hebrew sādhē]

Zeta [ˈziːtə]

(Astronomy) (foll by the genitive case of a specified constellation) the sixth brightest star in a constellation Zeta Tauri

ZETA [ˈziːtə]

(Physics / Nuclear Physics) a torus-shaped apparatus used for research in the 1950s and early 1960s on controlled thermonuclear reactions and plasma physics

[from z(ero-)e(nergy) t(hermonuclear) a(pparatus)]

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zeta - the 6th letter of the Greek alphabet

Greek alphabet - the alphabet used by ancient Greeks

alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet, letter - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters"

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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

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