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Gamma   /gˈæmə/   Listen
Gamma

noun
1.
The 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet.
2.
A unit of magnetic field strength equal to one-hundred-thousandth of an oersted.
3.
Portuguese navigator who led an expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497; he sighted and named Natal on Christmas Day before crossing the Indian Ocean (1469-1524).  Synonyms: da Gamma, Vasco da Gamma.



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"Gamma" Quotes from Famous Books



... on lecturing her about gamma-rays and ultraviolet rays and X-rays and cosmic rays, trying to keep making some sort of intelligent sounds while they clung together and waited, and, with the other half of his mind, trying not ...
— Ullr Uprising • Henry Beam Piper

... the matter from her mind, Grace thought no more of it. That evening Evelyn came to her as she sat reading in the living room and, in her most distant manner, notified Grace that she intended to go to the dance to be given by the Gamma Kappa Phi, a Willston fraternity, at their fraternity house. Miss Hilton, a member of the Overton faculty, would chaperon her. There were four other ...
— Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus • Jessie Graham Flower

... Way divides, in fact, just above the altar as the constellation was seen 4000 years ago above the southern horizon, one branch being that just described, the other (like another stream of smoke) 'passing,' says Herschel, 'over the stars Iota of the Altar, Theta and Iota of the Scorpion, etc., to Gamma of the Archer, where it suddenly collects into a vivid oval mass, so very rich in stars that a very moderate calculation makes their number exceed 100,000.' Nothing could accord better with the descriptions ...
— Myths and Marvels of Astronomy • Richard A. Proctor

... mixture of several isomers, the gamma isomer being the most toxic to insects. The practically pure isomer is known as lindane. A handicap to the general use of benzene hexachloride on fruit is its tendency to cause off-flavor condition ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting • Various

... she says," soothed Mabel. "She feels awfully cross this afternoon because she has met with a disappointment. She has an invitation to a Pi Kappa Gamma dance and she has been refused permission to go. Result, she is in a ...
— Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower

... [<] Crescendo hairpin [x] small cross [] 45 degree downstroke [/] 45 degree upstroke [/] large circumflex shape [O|] a circle bisected by a vertical line protruding both ways [Gamma] The Greek capital gamma [mid-dot] a dot at the height of a hyphen [over-dot] a single dot over the following letter [Over-slur] a frown-shaped curved line [Under-slur] a smile-shaped curved line (breve) [reverse-apostrophe] ...
— Critical & Historical Essays - Lectures delivered at Columbia University • Edward MacDowell

... Rabbi Jose said, "at first it was only twenty-eight cubits square." It receded and ascended until the hearth remained twenty cubits square; but when the children of the captivity came up, they added to it four cubits on the north, and four cubits on the west, like a gamma it is said; and the altar was twelve cubits long by twelve broad, being a square. One might say it was only "a square of twelve,"(577) as is said. Upon its four sides we learn that it measured from the middle ...
— Hebrew Literature

... -"id:xxxx"-. "id:" stands for "ideograph", and indicates that the reader should form a mental picture based on the "xxxx" following the colon. "xxxx" may represent a single symbol, a word, or an attempt at a picture composed of ASCII characters. E. g. —"id:GAMMA gamma"— indicates an uppercase Greek gamma-form Followed by the form in lowercase. Such exotic parsing is necessary to explain alphabetic development because a single symbol may have been used for a number of sounds in a number of languages, or even for a number of sounds in the same language ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen



Words linked to "Gamma" :   navigator, alphabetic character, letter, Greek alphabet, letter of the alphabet, oersted, field strength unit



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