EPSILON

Epsilon

Epsilon is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding phonetically to a close-mid front unrounded vowel . In the system of Greek numerals it has the value five. It was derived from the Phoenician letter He 20px|He. Letters that arose from epsilon include the Roman E and Cyrillic Е.

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epsilon

Noun

  1. The name for the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, ε or Ε, preceded by delta (Δ, δ) and followed by zeta (Ζ, ζ).
  2. In IPA, the phonetic symbol that represents the ; represented in SAMPA as E.
  3. An arbitrarily small quantity.
  4. A negligible effect.
    Yes, we have to convert all the symbol names to upper case at startup, but that’s epsilon.


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