epsilon

Ancient Greek Alphabet

← delta		→ zeta
Ε ε Ancient Greek: ἒ ψιλόν
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From Ancient Greek ἒ ψιλόν (è psilón, “simple Ε”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɛpˈsaɪ.lən/, /ˈɛp.sɪˌlɒn/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɛp.sɪˌlɑn/, /ˈɛp.sɪ.lən/

  • Audio (US):

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /epˈsɑɪ.lən/, /ˈep.sɪ.lɔn/, /ˈeps.lən/

epsilon (countable and uncountable, plural epsilons or epsila)

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. (phonetics) In IPA, the phonetic symbol ɛ that represents the open-mid front unrounded vowel.
3. (mathematics) An arbitrarily small quantity.
   1. (colloquial) A small child. ^[1][2]
4. (computing, colloquial) Something negligible or insignificant.
   • 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 106:

     All right, okay. My interest is epsilon.

   Yes, we have to convert all the symbol names to upper case at startup, but that’s epsilon.

5. (finance) The percentage change in an option value with respect to the underlying dividend yield.

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)

• pinoles, pile-ons, inslope, sinople, pilones, pile ons, piles on, pleions

• IPA^(key):

epsilon n or m inan

1. epsilon

when masculine:

Indeclinable when neuter.

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

epsilon

Wikipedia ^nl

From Ancient Greek ἒ ψιλόν (è psilón, “the letter Ε”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛpsilɔn/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ep‧si‧lon

epsilon m or f (plural epsilons, diminutive epsilonnetje n)

1. epsilon, the name for the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet
2. (phonetics) the IPA symbol that represents the open-mid front unrounded vowel
3. (mathematics) an arbitrarily small quantity

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

epsilon

Wikipedia ^fi

< Ancient Greek ἒ ψιλόν (è psilón).

• IPA^(key): /ˈepsilon/,
• Rhymes: -epsilon
• Syllabification^(key): ep‧si‧lon

epsilon

1. epsilon (Greek letter)

• “epsilon”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• IPA^(key): /ɛp.si.lɔ̃/, /ɛp.si.lɔn/

• Audio:

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epsilon m (plural epsilon)

1. epsilon (Greek letter)

• “epsilon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• épilons, pelions, sinople

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

epsilon

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epsilon m or f (invariable)

1. epsilon (Greek letter)

• Nespoli, nespoli, spelino, splenio

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

epsilon

Wikipedia ^pl

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἒ ψιλόν (è psilón), from Phoenician 𐤄 (h‬).

• IPA^(key): /ɛpˈsi.lɔn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ilɔn
• Syllabification: ep‧si‧lon

epsilon m inan

1. epsilon (Greek letter Ε, ε)

• epsilon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /ěpsiloːn/
• Hyphenation: e‧psi‧lon

èpsilōn m (Cyrillic spelling ѐпсило̄н)

1. epsilon, the Greek letter ε, Ε