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zeta

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ZETA , short for "Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly", was a major experiment in the early history of fusion power research. It was the ultimate device in a series of UK designs using the Z-pinch confinement technique, and the first large-scale fusion machine ...

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n. 1 The name of the sixth letter of the modern Greek alphabet ((term Ζ Greek), (term ζ Greek)) preceded by epsilon ((term Ε Greek), (term ε Greek)) and followed by eta, ((term Η Greek), (term η Greek)); or the seventh letter in the ancient Greek alphabet, ...

Usage examples of zeta.

Zeta bands, and thirty-two hours for a merchantship in the Delta bands.

She had been alone on the bridge for hours, during the undocking, pulling away from Shastri Station, and making a vector for Zeta Doradus.

Steergard felt that their position in perihelial orbit was the safest and maneuvered so that the ship would remain above Zeta, using the heat to power its own refrigeration.

More to the point: for what should the reconnoiterers prepare themselves, and how should they proceed once they were in the Zeta system?

In the distance, Zeta was orbited by three gas giants like Jupiter, ringed, with powerful, stormy atmospheres of superdense hydrogen.

Zeta, far from its larger planets, Steergard put the ship into an elliptical orbit so the astrophysicists could make their observations of Quinta.

Copperhead Unit Zeta Five was a legend even in the rarefied atmosphere that public opinion reserved for Copperheads in general.

Davin started to suggest they continue the search for the missing droids on their own instead of joining the rest of the detachment, when the rest of Zeta squad marched around the corner in lockstep, completing their circuit of the perimeter.

No nonterrestrial animals had ever been found, other than the primitive boneless fish of Zeta Psi.

In any case it seems certain that, by singling out the unfortunate Zetas, they made their task far easier than it would otherwise have been.

Do you remember when I spoke to you about Zetas having sold out to the Newcomers?

It did not appear to affect the true Zetas at the Centre, but when I expressed my intention of visiting Yugoslavia, Margaret insisted on accompanying me even though it meant breaking off a piece of research she was particularly involved in.

To confront some thirty adolescent Zetas when one is a quasi-Zeta oneself bears little resemblance to the normal classroom relationship.

In every bed imbecile Zetas lay gibbering at me, reaching out for me with hands like thin white ribbons.

Zeta through the vicinity of the collapsar probable in as little as fifty centuries.