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Gamut vs Gamma - What's the difference?

gamut | gamma |

As nouns the difference between gamut and gamma

is that gamut is a (normally) complete range while gamma is the name of the third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ).

gamut

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A (normally) complete range.
  • * 19?? , (Dorothy Parker), review of (Katharine Hepburn) in the Broadway play (The Lake)
  • She delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), Chapter 2
  • The entire gamut of the view's changes should have been known to her; its winter aspect, spring, summer and autumn; how storms came up from the sea; how the moors shuddered and brightened as the clouds went over; she should have noted the red spot where the villas were building; and the criss-cross of lines where the allotments were cut...
  • (music) All the notes in the musical scale.
  • All the colours available to a device such as a monitor or printer.
  • Derived terms

    * run the gamut

    References

    gamma

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The name of the third letter of the Greek alphabet ( ).
  • (mathematics) The (Gamma function), symbolized by ?.
  • (mathematics) A constant approximately equal to 0.55721566, symbolized by ?.
  • (physics) A unit of magnetic field equal to 1 nT.
  • Derived terms

    * gamma-aminobutyric acid * gamma ray * gamma correction * gamma globulin * nongamma

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