Ultra vs Sigma - What's the difference?
ultra | sigma |
Extreme; far beyond the norm; fanatical; uncompromising.
An ultraroyalist in France.
* 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 37:
*:"At any rate that is what he explained to me," I said hastily while the lawyer rubbed his long ultra' s nose and sighed.
An extremist.
* 2005', "
(usually, capitalised) Code name used by British codebreakers during World War 2 for decrypted information gained from the enemy.
The name for the eighteenth letter of the Classical]] and Modern Greek, the twentieth letter of Old and [[Ancient Greek, Ancient.
(mathematics) The symbol ? , used to indicate summation of a set or series.
(statistics) The symbol ? , used to indicate one standard deviation from the mean, particularly in a normal distribution.
* 2011 , Paul Rincon, (bbc.co.uk)
As nouns the difference between ultra and sigma
is that ultra is ultra, extremist while sigma is sigma (greek letter).As an adjective ultra
is ultra, extremist.ultra
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an ultra''' reformer; '''ultra measures
Noun
(en noun)Foreign '''ultrakilled, three injured in J&K," ''The Times of India , 29 Dec. (retrieved 21 Apr. 2009):
- Five militants were nabbed while four ultras of Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami (HuJI) gave themselves up.
sigma
English
Noun
(en noun)LHC: Higgs boson 'may have been glimpsed'
- None of the spikes seen by the experiments is at much more than the "two sigma" level of certainty.
A level of "five sigma" is required to claim a discovery, meaning there is less than a one in a million chance the data spike is down to a statistical fluke.