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- noun The 24-letter
alphabet of the modernGreek language, consisting of the followingletters presented inupper case (majuscule ) andlower case (minuscule ) pairs: - noun The alphabet consisting of the above letters plus the following four
obsolete letters:
Etymologies
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Examples
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Holding a book in his lap whose covers depict the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, this Christ holds us all against his bosom.
Deborah Schoeberlein: It's All In the Eyes: A Meditation On Christ Deborah Schoeberlein 2011
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Delta trading—the name is derived from the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet—is a gauge of risk exposure for bets made on the movements securities such as stocks and securities.
Delta Desks Emerge as Mine Fields Carrick Mollenkamp 2011
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Holding a book in his lap whose covers depict the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, this Christ holds us all against his bosom.
Deborah Schoeberlein: It's All In the Eyes: A Meditation On Christ Deborah Schoeberlein 2011
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Holding a book in his lap whose covers depict the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, this Christ holds us all against his bosom.
Deborah Schoeberlein: It's All In the Eyes: A Meditation On Christ Deborah Schoeberlein 2011
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Ergo – division of all men to Alphas, Betas and the rest of unpronounceable Greek alphabet, ergo – evaluation of women as prizes on trophey ladder, ergo – peacock mating fights with other men on his blog, etc etc.
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I thought omega was the last letter in the Greek alphabet.
mass murders, zeta males, and virtual life « raincoaster 2007
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It refers to the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet and is pronounced “sigh.”
ENTANGLED MINDS DEAN RADIN 2006
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The sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, p, was first used for the familiar value 3.1415� in the publication �Synopsis Palmariorium Mathesios�, authored by William Jones in 1706.
LEaRning can bE fUn! Darren Kuropatwa 2006
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The name "Gamma" comes from the third letter of the Greek alphabet.
Gamma Gets Going Beach Blogger 2005
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NHC policy is they will simply borrow 24 letters from the Greek alphabet.
Archive 2005-09-01 Beach Blogger 2005
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