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i·o·ta

(ī-ō′tə)

1. The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet. See Table at alphabet.

2. A very small amount; a bit: not an iota of truth to that tale.

[Latin iōta, from Greek, of Phoenician origin; see yd in Semitic roots.]

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iota

(aɪˈəʊtə)

1. (Letters of the Alphabet (Foreign)) the ninth letter in the Greek alphabet (Ι, ι), a vowel or semivowel, transliterated as i or j

2. (usually used with a negative) a very small amount; jot (esp in the phrase not one or an iota)

[C16: via Latin from Greek, of Semitic origin; see jot]

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i•o•ta

(aɪˈoʊ tə)

n., pl. -tas.

1. a very small quantity; jot; whit.

2. the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet (Ι, ι).

[1600–10; < Latin iōta < Greek iôta < Semitic; compare Hebrew yōdh yod]

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Noun	1.	iota - a tiny or scarcely detectable amount scintilla, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity - an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude
	2.	iota - the 9th 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"

iota

noun bit, particle, atom, trace, hint, scrap, grain, mite, jot, speck, whit, tittle, scintilla (rare) Our credit standards have not changed one iota.

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iota

noun

1. A tiny amount:

bit, crumb, dab, dash, dot, dram, drop, fragment, grain, jot, minim, mite, modicum, molecule, ort, ounce, particle, scrap, scruple, shred, smidgen, speck, tittle, trifle, whit.

Chiefly British: spot.

2. The least bit:

hoot, jot, ounce, shred, whit.

Informal: damn, rap.

Slang: diddly.

Translations

iota

hitunenhiveniota

jota

iota

[aɪˈəʊtə] N (= letter) → iota f (fig) → pizca f, ápice m
there's not one iota of truth in it → eso no tiene ni pizca de verdad
if he had an iota of sense → si tuviera un pizca de inteligencia

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

iota

[aɪˈəʊtə] n → once f
not one iota → pas une once
not one iota of sth → pas une once de qch
I don't feel one iota of guilt → Je ne ressens pas une once de culpabilité.

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

iota

n → Jota nt; not an or one iota → nicht ein Jota; not an iota of truth → kein Funke m → or Körnchen nt → Wahrheit; it won’t make an iota of difference → es wird nicht den geringsten Unterschied machen

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iota

[aɪˈəʊtə] n (letter) → iota; (of truth, commonsense) → briciolo

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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.

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She was growing a little stout, but it did not seem to detract an iota from the grace of every step, pose, gesture.

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The exact facts, the exact words, -- and they are burnt in upon my brain, -- shall be set down without alteration of an iota; and let my Readers judge between me and Destiny.

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The old man sat and talked with me for hours, and the strangest part of our intercourse was that I could read his every thought while he could not fathom an iota from my mind unless I spoke.

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I did not slacken my speed an iota as I dashed among them, and as they fell before my blade I could not but recall the happy memory of those other battles when Tars Tarkas, Jeddak of Thark, mightiest of Martian green men, had stood shoulder to shoulder with me through long, hot Martian days, as together we hewed down our enemies until the pile of corpses about us rose higher than a tall man's head.

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There is not an iota of truth in it--certainly not.

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But I shall not therefore drop one iota of my convictions, or cease to identify myself with that truth which an evil generation hates.

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"The Ring of Bells" and "The Peri and the Pearl" are not changed one iota. They were just as artistic, just as worth while, then as now.

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This hand the king eagerly accepts -- (he had intended to take it at all events, and had put off the matter from day to day, only through fear of the vizier), -- but, in accepting it now, he gives all parties very distinctly to understand, that, grand vizier or no grand vizier, he has not the slightest design of giving up one iota of his vow or of his privileges.

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"The Kabbala, as you properly term them, sir, were generally discovered to be precisely on a par with the facts recorded in the un-re-written histories themselves; -- that is to say, not one individual iota of either was ever known, under any circumstances, to be not totally and radically wrong."

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He remembered everything with the most accurate and extraordinary distinctness, and declared that he would never forget a single iota of the experience.

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Several slight gestures on the part of the invalid showed that these arguments were no more lost upon him, than the smallest iota of his demeanour was upon Ralph.