Omega,

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  omega \o*me"ga\ ([=o]*m[=e]"g[.a] or [=o]*m[=a]"g[.a] or
     [=o]"m[-e]*g[.a]; 277), n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'w^ me`ga, i.e., the
     great or long o. Cf. {Mickle}.]
     1. The last letter of the Greek alphabet. See {Alpha}.
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     2. The last; the end; hence, death.
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              "Omega! thou art Lord," they said.    --Tennyson.
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     {Alpha and Omega}, the beginning and the ending; hence, the
        chief, the whole. --Rev. i. 8.
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              The alpha and omega of science.       --Sir J.
                                                    Herschel.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  omega
       n 1: the ending of a series or sequence; "the Alpha and the
            Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the
            end"--Revelation [syn: {Z}]
       2: the last (24th) letter of the Greek alphabet

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "omega":
     Z, apodosis, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, coda, conclusion,
     consummation, crack of doom, culmination, curtain, curtains, death,
     decease, denouement, destination, destiny, doom, effect, end,
     end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, expiration, fate,
     final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis,
     finish, goal, izzard, last, last breath, last gasp, last things,
     last trumpet, last words, latter end, payoff, period, peroration,
     quietus, resolution, resting place, stoppage, stopping place,
     swan song, term, terminal, termination, terminus, windup
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Omega
       
          1.  A {prototype}-based {object-oriented}
          language from Austria.
       
          ["Type-Safe Object-Oriented Programming with Prototypes - The
          Concept of Omega", G. Blaschek, Structured Programming
          12:217-225, 1991].
       
          2.  A successor to {TeX} extended to handle the
          {Unicode} character set.
       
          {(http://www.ens.fr/omega/)}.
       
          (1997-11-20)
       
       

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Omega
     (Rev. 1:8), the last letter in the Greek alphabet. (See {A}.)
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Omega, the last letter of the Greek alphabet; long O
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Omega, GA (city, FIPS 58184)
    Location: 31.33833 N, 83.59560 W
    Population (1990): 912 (384 housing units)
    Area: 4.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 31775
  Omega, OK
    Zip code(s): 73764

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Omega, GA -- U.S. city in Georgia
     Population (2000):    1340
     Housing Units (2000): 522
     Land area (2000):     1.775647 sq. miles (4.598904 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.005642 sq. miles (0.014613 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    1.781289 sq. miles (4.613517 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            58184
     Located within:       Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
     Location:             31.339684 N, 83.595036 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     31775
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Omega, GA
      Omega