epsilon

English

Ancient Greek Alphabet

← delta		→ zeta
Ε ε Ancient Greek: ἒ ψιλόν
Wikipedia article on epsilon

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epsilon

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

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.
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.

Hypernyms

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

Derived terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

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

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

epsilon n or m inan

1. epsilon

Declension

when masculine:

Indeclinable when neuter.

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

epsilon

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛpsilɔn/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ep‧si‧lon

Noun

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

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

epsilon

Wikipedia ^fi

Etymology

< Ancient Greek ἒ ψιλόν (è psilón).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

epsilon

1. epsilon (Greek letter)

Declension

Further reading

• “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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛp.si.lɔ̃/, /ɛp.si.lɔn/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

epsilon m (plural epsilon)

1. epsilon (Greek letter)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• épilons, pelions, sinople

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

epsilon

Wikipedia ^it

Noun

epsilon m or f (invariable)

1. epsilon (Greek letter)

Anagrams

• Nespoli, nespoli, spelino, splenio

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

epsilon

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛpˈsi.lɔn/

• Audio

  (file)

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

Noun

epsilon m inan

1. epsilon (Greek letter Ε, ε)

Declension

Further reading

• epsilon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

èpsilōn m (Cyrillic spelling ѐпсило̄н)

1. epsilon, the Greek letter ε, Ε

Declension