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Epsilon vs Upsilon - What's the difference?

epsilon | upsilon |

As nouns the difference between epsilon and upsilon

is that epsilon is the name for the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, ε or Ε, preceded by delta (Δ, δ) and followed by zeta (Ζ, ζ) while upsilon is the twentieth letter of Classical and Modern Greek; the twenty-second letter of Old and Ancient Greek.

epsilon

English

{{letter_disp2, delta, (wikipedia epsilon)

Noun

  • The name for the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, ).
  • (phonetics) In IPA]], the phonetic symbol that represents the [[w:open-mid front unrounded vowel, open-mid front unrounded vowel; represented in SAMPA as E .
  • (mathematics) An arbitrarily small quantity.
  • (computing, colloquial) A negligible effect.
  • Yes, we have to convert all the symbol names to upper case at startup, but that’s epsilon .

    upsilon

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The twentieth letter of Classical]] and Modern Greek; the twenty-second letter of [[Old Greek, Old and Ancient Greek.
  • Synonyms

    * (uncommon) ypsilon

    See also

    * (Greek letter) Previous: tau, Next: phi

    Anagrams

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