Meaning of Omicron | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Ellipsis of Omicron Hill: a mountain in North Slope borough, Alaska, United States.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
2. The 15th letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets (16th in Ancient and Old Greek), used in ordering lists as in naming (astronomy) the 15th star of a constellation or (epidemiology) the 15th discovered major variant of a disease.
   capitalized, sometimes
3. Ellipsis of Omicron variant.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable

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Examples

“Your Majestie knows that unfortunate I [...] was the first who when I published my Poem of Italia Liberata endeavoured to bring⟳ the Omicron, Eupselon, Omega, and other Greek Letters, which I thought very requisite for that language, into my own⟳ Tongue;”

“The E serves both for the Epsilon and Eta; the O, both for the Omicron and Omega, and likewise for the dipthong OΥ.”

“... They include⟳ Mira itself (omicron Ceti) which can be seen shortly before dawn.”

“There are now seven “variants of interest⟳” or “variants of concern⟳” and they each have⟳ a Greek letter, according to a W.H.O. tracking page. Some other variants with Greek letters do not reach⟳ those classification levels, and the W.H.O. also skipped two letters just before Omicron — “Nu” and “Xi” — leading to speculation about whether “Xi” was avoided in deference to the Chinese president, Xi Jinping.”

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