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zeta

[zey-tuh, zee-]

noun

  1. the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet (Z, ζ).

  2. the consonant sound represented by this letter.



ZETA

1

/ ˈːə /

noun

  1. a torus-shaped apparatus used for research in the 1950s and early 1960s on controlled thermonuclear reactions and plasma physics

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Zeta

2

/ ˈːə /

noun

  1. (foll by the genitive case of a specified constellation) the sixth brightest star in a constellation

    Zeta Tauri

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

zeta

3

/ ˈːə /

noun

  1. the sixth letter in the Greek alphabet (Ζ, ζ), a consonant, transliterated as z

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of zeta1

First recorded in 1820–30, zeta is from the Greek word êٲ
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of zeta1

C20: from z ( ero- ) e ( nergy ) t ( hermonuclear ) a ( pparatus )

Origin of zeta2

from Greek, of Semitic origin; compare Hebrew ŧ
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Example Sentences

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Among these is the famous zeta ring, a very faint and dusty celestial object first discovered by the Voyager 2 satellite in 1986.

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“Spring training being closed in March would be worse for us than another covid outbreak, like if they announced the zeta variant was coming. It would be that bad.”

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Riemann found that the key to understanding their distribution lay within another set of numbers, the zeroes of a function called the Riemann zeta function that has both real and imaginary inputs.

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As a physicist, I was aware that the zeros of the zeta function describe the distribution of the prime numbers.

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Tell Facebook you have solved the elusive Riemann hypothesis, proving conclusively that the zeta function has its zeros only at the negative even integers and complex numbers.

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What else does zeta mean?

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