noun

• 1The last letter of the Greek alphabet (Ω, ω), transliterated as ‘o’ or ‘ō’.

  ‘Ah, yes, the round letters are quite small; yes, the omicrons and omegas seem to hover, there, in the middle of the line.’

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  • ‘Alpha, rho, tau, sigma, omega, Ash went over the letters he saw in his mind while Lari just stared, apparently in her own little world.’
  • ‘After all, her father was a maths teacher who knew his alpha from his omega.’
  • ‘Centered on the crest is the white carnation, with the Chi to the left and the Omega to the right of the flower.’
  • ‘What letter is before omega in the Greek alphabet?’

  1. 1.1usually as modifier The last of a series.
     ‘the omega point’
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     • ‘There are dangers to thinking of time as headed inevitably to some omega point, of us being on some inevitable road to Armageddon.’
     • ‘For a Pack werewolf, such a handicap would condemn me to omega status - the bottom of the heap.’
     • ‘That's the beginning and the end, the alpha and the omega, and there's no exceptions.’
     • ‘The alpha and the omega for this man who's worked to become the most despised, the most frightening artist in music.’
     • ‘We are the alpha and the omega in seashore dining and freshly prepared gourmet seafood.’
     • ‘He is the alpha to my omega, the end to my beginning.’
     • ‘And grip variations seem to span the alpha to the omega of possibilities.’
     • ‘He is the alpha and the omega, the principle and the end, the foundation stone and the keystone, the plenitude and the plenifier.’
     • ‘Are we willing to be the alpha and the omega rather than stand in the middle all the time?’
     • ‘An alpha leads a pack, and the omega is the lowest standing.’
     • ‘I think those guys who talk about animals on the telly, like that old Brit guy, would term me ‘the omega of the pack’.’
     • ‘Your work has a beginning and an end, an Alpha and an Omega.’
  2. 1.2Astronomy followed by Latin genitive The twenty-fourth star in a constellation.
     ‘Omega Scorpii’
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     • ‘Finally there is Omega Scorpii, made up of two stars which. can be seen separately with the naked eye; the magnitudes are. 4.0 and 4.3.’
     • ‘Omega Scorpii, a star, looks like a fifth moon, so don't be deceived.’
     • ‘Omega Centauri has been known to be an unusual globular cluster for a long time.’
     • ‘Surveys showed how the stars are bunching up near the center of Omega Centauri, as seen in the gradual increase in starlight near the center.’
     • ‘Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys showed how the stars are bunching up near the center of Omega Centauri, as seen in the gradual increase in starlight near the center.’

• 1

  (also Ω)

  Ohm(s)

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  • ‘a 100Ω resistor’

• 2

  (also ω)

  Angular frequency.