Crossword clues for omicron
omicron
- Going to pen very small letter
- A very short distance to track one's initial letter
- Moronic sort of letter
- Order press to cover key letter from Plato
- Fifteenth Greek letter
- I snubbed friend after returning second letter
- Greek vowel
- Frat letter
- Xi-pi go-between
- Letter after xi
- It comes before pi
- Plato's O
- O or O
- Moronic (anag) — Greek letter
- Greek for "little O"
- Foreign letter — I'm no roc (anag)
- 15th letter of the Greek alphabet
- Pi preceder
- A fraternity chapter
- Certain fraternity chapter
- Original opening to Homer's "Odyssey"?
- Head of Olympus?
- Opposite of vert.
- The 15th letter of the Greek alphabet
- Xi follower
- Fraternity letter
- Between xi and pi
- Greek letter
- Circular Greek letter
- First letter given to Odysseus
- Greek letter O
- Greek character, very small, getting leg over
- Greek character featured by comic, Ronnie
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Omicron \O*mi"cron\, n. [Written also omikron.] [NL., fr. Gr. Lit., the little, or short, O, o; the fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
15th letter of the Greek alphabet, literally "small 'o,' " from Greek (s)mikros "small," from PIE *smik-. Because the vowel was "short" in ancient Greek. Compare Omega.
Wiktionary
n. the name for the 15th letter of Classical Greek and Modern Greek. The 16th in Ancient Greek and Old Greek.
WordNet
n. the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet
Wikipedia
Omicron (uppercase Ο, lowercase ο, literally "small o": Όμικρον, o mikron, micron meaning 'small' in contrast to omega) is the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 70. This letter is derived from the Phoenician letter ayin . In classical Greek, omicron represented the sound in contrast to omega and ου . In modern Greek, omicron represents the mid back rounded vowel . Letters that arose from omicron include Roman O and Cyrillic O.
The upper-case letter of omicron (O) was originally used in mathematics as a symbol for Big O notation (representing a function's asymptotic growth rate), but has fallen out of favor because omicron is indistinguishable from the Latin letter O and easily confused with the digit zero (0).
Omicron is used to designate the fifteenth star in a constellation group, its ordinal placement a function of both magnitude and position. Such stars include Omicron Andromedae, Omicron Ceti, and Omicron Persei.
Omicron is a quite diverse neotropical genus of small potter wasps.
Omicron is a 1963 Italian science fiction- comedy film directed by Ugo Gregoretti. The film entered the competition at the 24th Venice International Film Festival.
Omicron is a letter in the Greek alphabet.
Omicron may also refer to:
- Omicron (film), an Italian film from 1963
- Omicron (wasp), a genus of wasps
- Omicron Hill, a summit in Alaska
Usage examples of "omicron".
The people who had settled Omicron in the late 2300s were decent, hardworking folk from a variety of social and religious backgroundshardly the fanatical types needed to create a public relations image.
Nonnuclear bombs began failing on the major cities and settlements of Omicron simultaneously all over the planet.
As the enemy fleet surrounded Omicron and pounded it with bombs and radiation, the remaining defenders swooped in from behind and made pesky little raids at their rear.
One by one, the gallant defenders of Omicron were blown out of the sky until only two ships remained.
There was no one to take the official message back to the Empire that Omicron had been lost to a mysterious invading force.
People living on the frontier of civilization develop a tough, stubborn natureand the citizens of Omicron, confused and frightened as they were, were not about to surrender their world without a struggle.
There was no organized resistance force on Omicron worthy of the title.
Sometime in the last fifty hours, all communications with Omicron ceased.
One of my operatives was working on Omicron when the invasion occurred.
Head filled them in on the background of the Omicron problem and the need to combine forces with the conspiracy to get to the bottom of the mystery as quickly as possible.
Despite all reservations and misgivings, the mission to learn the secret of the Omicron invasion had begun.
Nereid and brought them out barely a million kilometers from Omicron itselfan achievement of accuracy that made a hole-in-one at golf seem trivial by comparison.
As they zoomed back toward Omicron, though, Fortier announced several more small ships coming up to intercept them.
The tranquility of the scene, even through the driving rain, seemed to belie the dire circumstances in which Omicron now found itself.
The top of the egg sprang back, and the people inside got their first whiffs of the clean, cold air of the Omicron rainstorm.