Epsilon

4 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  epsilon
       n : the 5th letter of the Greek alphabet

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  epsilon [see {delta}] 1. n. A small quantity of anything. "The cost is


     epsilon." 2. adj. Very small, negligible; less than {marginal}. "We can
     get this feature for epsilon cost." 3. `within epsilon of': close enough
     to be indistinguishable for all practical purposes, even closer than
     being `within delta of'. "That's not what I asked for, but it's within
     epsilon of what I wanted." Alternatively, it may mean not close enough,
     but very little is required to get it there: "My program is within
     epsilon of working."
  
  

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

  epsilon
       
          1.  The fifth letter of the Greek alphabet.
       
          2.  (From the Hungarian mathematician {Paul
          Erdos}) A very small, insignificant, or negligible quantity of
          something.
       
          The use of epsilon is from the {epsilon-delta method} of
          {proof} in {differential calculus}.
       
          (2001-07-06)
       
       

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

  EPSILON
       
           A {macro} language with high level features
          including strings and lists, developed by A.P. Ershov at
          Novosibirsk in 1967.  EPSILON was used to implement {ALGOL 68}
          on the {M-220}.
       
          ["Application of the Machine-Oriented Language Epsilon to
          Software Development", I.V. Pottosin et al, in Machine
          Oriented Higher Level Languages, W. van der Poel, N-H 1974,
          pp. 417-434].
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1995-05-10)