Crossword clues for upsilon
upsilon
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Upsilon \Up"si*lon\, n. [Gr. 'y^ psilo`n bare, mere, simple y.] The 20th letter ([Upsilon], [upsilon]) of the Greek alphabet, a vowel having originally the sound of [=oo] as in room, becoming before the 4th century b. c. that French u or Ger. ["u]. Its equivalent in English is u or y.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
20th letter of the Greek alphabet, 1640s, from Greek u psilon, literally "a mere (or bare) 'u;' " so called in later Greek in reference to its sound. The exact reason is variously explained, but it seems to have had something to do with distinguishing it from diphthongs.
Wiktionary
n. The twentieth letter of Classical Greek and Modern Greek; the twenty-second letter of Old Greek and Ancient Greek.
WordNet
n. the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet
Wikipedia
Upsilon (uppercase Υ, lowercase υ; , ýpsilon, ; ; or ) is the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, has a value of 400. It is derived from the Phoenician waw .
Upsilon or Ypsilon is a Greek letter.
May refer to:
- Lancia Ypsilon
- Latin upsilon , also a symbol for near-close near-back rounded vowel
- Ypsilon (Scheme implementation)
- Upsilon Acrux
- Upsilon Andromedae, a solar system
- Upsilon Aquarii
- Upsilon Aquilae
- Upsilon Aurigae
- Upsilon Boötis
- Upsilon Cancri
- Upsilon Capricorni
- Upsilon Carinae
- Upsilon Cassiopeiae
- Upsilon Centauri
- Upsilon Ceti
- Lake Upsilon
- Upsilon Librae
- Upsilon Orionis
- Upsilon Piscium
- Upsilon Sagittarii
- Upsilon Scorpii
- Upsilon Serpentis
- Upsilon Tauri
- Upsilon Ursae Majoris
- Upsilon Virginis
- Upsilon particle
Usage examples of "upsilon".
Just forty-two years, three months, and three days had elapsed since leaving Sol when the survey vessel finished deceleration and arrived in orbit around Upsilon Aquarius, a greenish star over seventy-two light-years from Earth.
It probably wouldn’t be that way forever—or even for long, if the terraformers got their way—but for now, the only remotely habitable planet around Upsilon Aquarius was proving to be a pain in the ass.
She knew he was glad that she had assumed command of the survey mission once it had arrived at Upsilon Aquarius.
Most of the minor stars between Sol and Upsilon Aquarius had been hers to fly by, slowing fractionally enough to take pictures but never stopping.
That was what had obsessed his thoughts upon arriving at Upsilon Aquarius.
This was the true center of the enigma that had been presented to humanity in Upsilon Aquarius, the place where the absent Spinners had the greatest influence.
A lot of the systems around here are listed like that, including Upsilon Aquarius.
He had to be sure before he pulled the plug on the one person in Upsilon Aquarius who had been his friend.
In fact, he hadn’t used his ripcord since his breakdown upon arriving in Upsilon Aquarius, almost ten years earlier.
No matter what had happened on Earth, no matter why communications had ceased so abruptly, the people back home deserved to know what the survey team in Upsilon Aquarius had found.
The trip from Upsilon Aquarius had taken twice as long as the one day that had apparently elapsed in the real universe, but it had been entirely uneventful—dangerously so, given his constant battle to remain focused.
On first hearing her name, in fact, he had fleetingly considered the possibility that he had somehow ended up back at Upsilon Aquarius by mistake and had gone nowhere at all.
The first few transmissions must’ve been the test we performed, when we tried to contact Earth from Upsilon Aquarius.
Once contact is established between Sol and Upsilon Aquarius, where do you go from there?
Approximately two days’ ship time would see them back in Upsilon Aquarius, a day after they’d left Earth.