Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The seventh letter of the Greek alphabet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, written H or
η . - noun In electricity, a symbol for coefficient of magnetic hysteresis. See
magnetic hysteresis .
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- noun A social outcast in
Japan who is subjected to menial work, making up a class orcaste of such people. - noun The seventh letter of the
Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth inOld Greek . - noun physics A kind of electrically neutral
meson having zero spin andisospin .
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- noun a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees
- noun the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet
Etymologies
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Examples
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I don't get what eta is supposed to be other than in very hand wavy terms or exactly what the "social discount rate" is supposed to be in order for that equation to make sense.
DeLong, Dasgupta, and Stern, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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-0 / +2By the way, for some clarification, the "H" is formed from the first two letters plus the last letter of his name in Greek "eta".
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-0 / +2By the way, for some clarification, the "H" is formed from the first two letters plus the last letter of his name in Greek "eta".
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-0 / +2By the way, for some clarification, the "H" is formed from the first two letters plus the last letter of his name in Greek "eta".
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'they said!'.however. for people in the idf to start bringing up lynching? seriously, who thought that language was a good idea? apparently this eta is needed: what lynching means in that hegemonic usian context. tags: current events mood: cynical
art and negroes and stuff. yeloson 2010
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While the error terms eta and eps do not enter the expected value of the difference between EBM temperature anomalies and reconstructed temperature anomalies, they do enter the variance of the residual difference.
More on Hegerl et al 2006 Non-Confidence Intervals « Climate Audit 2007
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"De Sec'eta'y, seh, am waiting for you all at onct, Mars Ha'lison," he said; and ushering them across the big room to the Secretary's private office he swung back the heavy door and bowed them into the Presence.
The Cab of the Sleeping Horse John Reed Scott
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Benfeius, and will neither hear that Athene was the Dawn, nor yet that she is 'the feminine of the Zend _Thra'eta'na athwya'na_.'
Letters to Dead Authors Andrew Lang 1878
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Displacing 2.7 litres, the power unit named after the Greek letter "eta" also known as the symbol for efficiency developed maximum output of 125 hp at an engine speed of 4,250 rpm, with peak torque of 240 Newton-metres/177 lb-ft at just 3,250 rpm.
Autoblog Jonathon Ramsey 2010
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Displacing 2.7 litres, the power unit named after the Greek letter "eta" also known as the symbol for efficiency developed maximum output of 125 hp at an engine speed of 4,250 rpm, with peak torque of 240 Newton-metres/177 lb-ft at just 3,250 rpm.
Autoblog Jonathon Ramsey 2010
oroboros commented on the word eta
Ate in reverse. Also abbreviation of Estimated Time of Arrival.
November 3, 2007