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Define the word omega

omega \o*me"ga\ ([=o]*m[=e]"g[.a] or [=o]*m[=a]"g[.a] or
   [=o]"m[-e]*g[.a]; 277), n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'w^ me`ga, i.e., the
   great or long o. Cf. Mickle.]
   1. The last letter of the Greek alphabet. See Alpha.
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   2. The last; the end; hence, death.
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            "Omega! thou art Lord," they said.    --Tennyson.
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   Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending; hence, the
      chief, the whole. --Rev. i. 8.
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            The alpha and omega of science.       --Sir J.
                                                  Herschel.
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omega
     n 1: the ending of a series or sequence; "the Alpha and the
          Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the
          end"--Revelation [syn: Z]
     2: the last (24th) letter of the Greek alphabet

57 Moby Thesaurus words for "omega":
   Z, apodosis, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, coda, conclusion,
   consummation, crack of doom, culmination, curtain, curtains, death,
   decease, denouement, destination, destiny, doom, effect, end,
   end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, expiration, fate,
   final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis,
   finish, goal, izzard, last, last breath, last gasp, last things,
   last trumpet, last words, latter end, payoff, period, peroration,
   quietus, resolution, resting place, stoppage, stopping place,
   swan song, term, terminal, termination, terminus, windup

Omega
     
        1.  A prototype-based object-oriented
        language from Austria.
     
        ["Type-Safe Object-Oriented Programming with Prototypes - The
        Concept of Omega", G. Blaschek, Structured Programming
        12:217-225, 1991].
     
        2.  A successor to TeX extended to handle the
        Unicode character set.
     
        (http://www.ens.fr/omega/).
     
        (1997-11-20)
     
     

Omega
   (Rev. 1:8), the last letter in the Greek alphabet. (See A.)
   

Omega, the last letter of the Greek alphabet; long O

Omega, GA (city, FIPS 58184)
  Location: 31.33833 N, 83.59560 W
  Population (1990): 912 (384 housing units)
  Area: 4.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 31775
Omega, OK
  Zip code(s): 73764

Omega, GA -- U.S. city in Georgia
   Population (2000):    1340
   Housing Units (2000): 522
   Land area (2000):     1.775647 sq. miles (4.598904 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.005642 sq. miles (0.014613 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    1.781289 sq. miles (4.613517 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            58184
   Located within:       Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
   Location:             31.339684 N, 83.595036 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     31775
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Omega, GA
    Omega