iota
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- noun
- /aɪˈoʊtə/
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iota
- The star cluster is gathered unevenly around Iota Ori, the star at the southern top of Orion's sword in the famous constellation.
The first strains of COVID that came out, you know, COVID the, the original, the Alpha strain, the Iota strain, they were some of the earlier ones that were circulating.
- The first strains of COVID that came out, you know, COVID the, the original, the Alpha strain, the Iota strain, they were some of the earlier ones that were circulating.
Examples
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Location of Iota Cancri in Cancer.
Academic text (1999) -
A winter-time pair that is almost as good is Iota Cancri, but it is somewhat harder to find with simple equipment (see Figure 3).
Academic text (1999) -
Iota Pavonis had hidden behind a cloud, a dense, round cloud shaped like a pancake.
Fiction book (1998) -
Better than 20 years ago, Romano Amerio remarked in Iota Unum on the dramatic falling off of Rome's intellectual specific gravity.
Blog text (6) -
Iota is the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding to the letter i in English.
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In Greek, iota is the name given to the symbol represented by Ι and ι.
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The iota can be used to refer to the small letter 'i' in Greek writing.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Iota is the name of the ninth Greek letter that stands for the short 'i' sound, so it simply means the Greek letter similar to the English 'i'.