Epsilon

Definition: Epsilon

Epsilon

Noun

1. The 5th letter of the Greek alphabet.

Date "epsilon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Epsilon

Domain	Definitions
Computing	Epsilon [see delta] 1. n. A small quantity of anything. "The cost is epsilon." 2. adj. Very small, negligible; less than marginal. "We can get this feature for epsilon cost." 3. `within epsilon of': close enough to be indistinguishable for all practical purposes, even closer than being `within delta of'. "That's not what I asked for, but it's within epsilon of what I wanted." Alternatively, it may mean not close enough, but very little is required to get it there: "My program is within epsilon of working.". Source: Jargon File.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Epsilon

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
EPSILON	Danish	Avanceret videnbasestyringssystem	Computing
EPSILON	Dutch	Geavanceerd KB-beheersysteem	Computing
EPSILON	English	Advanced Knowledge Base Management System	Computing
EPSILON	French	Système avancé de gestion � base de connaissances	Computing
EPSILON	German	Fortgeschrittenes Wissensbasismanagementsystem	Computing
EPSILON	Italian	Sistema avanzato di gestione delle basi di conoscenze	Computing
EPSILON	Portuguese	Sistema avançado de gestão de bases de conhecimento	Computing
EPSILON	Spanish	Sistema avanzado de gestión de bases de conocimientos	Computing
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top

Crosswords: Epsilon

English words defined with "epsilon": Epsilon Aurigae. (references)

Specialty definitions using "epsilon": absorbed dose, Antigens, CD3 ♦ Coatomer Protein ♦ epsilon blue, epsilon Proteobacteria ♦ Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase ♦ identical errors ♦ Receptors, IgE ♦ true strain ♦ within epsilon of. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Epsilon" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (epsilon), German (epsilon), Italian (epsilon), Serbo-Croatian (epsilon), Swedish (epsilon), Turkish (epsilon).

Top

Modern Usage: Epsilon

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Epsilon (1995)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Commercial Usage: Epsilon

Domain	Title
Books	De zéro à epsilon : vers une nouvelle théorie de l'économie (reference) Epsilon (reference) Epsilon Country (reference) Epsilon; a journey along the Epsilon River from the Eastern Mountains to the sea (reference) Metaphysics: Books Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon (Clarendon Aristotle Series) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Triangle Of Mu Phi Epsilon (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Babylon 5 - The Epsilon Chronicles (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Epsilon in Malaysian Pale (reference) Epsilon Minus (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Photo Album: Epsilon

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Delta Kappa Epsilon House, Ann Arbor, Mich.Credit: Library of Congress.		Tau Zeta Epsilon House, Wellesley College, Mass.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Usage Frequency: Epsilon

"Epsilon" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 83.78% of the time. "Epsilon" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	83.78%	31	62,296
Noun (singular)	16.22%	6	143,867
Total	100.00%	37	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top

Expressions: Epsilon

Expressions using "epsilon": epsilon Aurigae ♦ epsilon blue ♦ epsilon Proteobacteria ♦ epsilon squared ♦ within epsilon of. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "epsilon": epsilon-independence, epsilon-toxin.
	Ending with "epsilon": Delta-epsilon.
	Containing "epsilon": non-epsilon-toxin-producing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Epsilon

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
sigma alpha epsilon	155	sigma alpha epsilon fraternity	6
epsilon	139	epsilon kappa	6
sigma phi epsilon	123	chi epsilon	6
tau kappa epsilon	61	alpha epsilon omega	6
delta phi epsilon	36	epsilon kappa psi	6
delta kappa epsilon	28	1.3 driver epsilon window xp	6
lambda phi epsilon	27	epsilon sigma	6
alpha epsilon phi	24	delta epsilon sigma	5
alpha epsilon pi	21	epsilon zero	5
epsilon mu phi	15	epsilon iota sigma	5
alpha delta epsilon	12	epsilon mu pi	5
tau epsilon phi	12	micro epsilon	5
epsilon melodias	10	sigma phi epsilon fraternity	5
sigma alpha epsilon pi	10	epsilon nu	4
chi delta epsilon	10	epsilon platform	4
denison epsilon phi sigma site university web	9	delta epsilon pi	4
epsilon wheels	8	tau kappa epsilon fraternity	4
delta epsilon psi	8	alpha epsilon lambda	4
pi sigma epsilon	7	epsilon klub	4
epsilon minus	7	epsilon pi tau	4
delta epsilon omicron	7	epsilon sigma rho	4
epsilon nu theta	6
		epsilon sigma rho	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Modern Translations: Epsilon

Language		Translations for "epsilon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		ε. (various references)

Danish		EPSILON (Advanced Knowledge Base Management System), avanceret videnbasestyringssystem (Advanced Knowledge Base Management System). (various references)

Dutch		EPSILON (Advanced Knowledge Base Management System). (various references)

Finnish		kehittynyt tietämyskannan hallintajärjestelmä(EPSILON) (Advanced Knowledge Base Management System). (various references)

French		EPSILON, système avancé de gestion � base de connaissances. (various references)

German		epsilon (Advanced Knowledge Base Management System). (various references)

Greek		έψιλο. (various references)

Italian		epsilon (Advanced Knowledge Base Management System). (various references)

Pig Latin		epsilonay

Portuguese		EPSILON (Advanced Knowledge Base Management System), sistema avançado de gestão de bases de conhecimento (Advanced Knowledge Base Management System), épsilon. (various references)

Russian		эпсилон (upsilon). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		epsilon. (various references)

Spanish		EPSILON (Advanced Knowledge Base Management System), sistema avanzado de gestión de bases de conocimientos (Advanced Knowledge Base Management System). (various references)

Swedish		EPSILON (Advanced Knowledge Base Management System). (various references)

Thai		พยัญชนะตัวที่ 5 ใน� าษากรีก (คล้ายพยัญชนะ e ใน� าษาอังกฤษ). (various references)

Turkish		epsilon. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top

Derivations & Misspellings: Epsilon

Derivations
	Words beginning with "epsilon": epsilonic, epsilons. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Epsilon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Apsion, Epilim, epilon, episilon, epislon, epsellon, epsilion, Epsion, Espadon, psilo. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top

Rhyming with "Epsilon"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "epsilon" (pronounced e"psulÄ'n)
4	-u l Ä' n	carillon, echelon.
3	-l Ä' n	nylon, pylon.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Top

Anagrams: Epsilon

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: pinoles.
	Words within the letters "e-i-l-n-o-p-s"
	-1 letter: eloins, insole, lesion, oleins, opines, pensil, pilose, pinole, poleis, polies, ponies, spinel, spline.
	-2 letters: eloin, enols, eosin, lenis, lenos, liens, lines, linos, lions, loins, lopes, noels, noils, noise, olein, opens, opine, opsin, peins, pelon, penis, peons, piles, pines, pions, plies, poise, poles, polis, pones, slipe, slope, snipe, solei, speil, spiel, spile, spine.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-l-n-o-p-s"
	+1 letter: bonspiel, epsilons, opalines, pinholes, pinocles, potlines, prolines, toplines.
	+2 letters: antipoles, aphelions, bonspiels, complines, epsilonic, explosion, expulsion, neoplasia, palinodes, panoplies, pemolines, phenolics, picolines, pinochles, plotlines, pointless, polonaise, prelusion, replicons, repulsion, simpleton, spinulose, spoilsmen, terpinols, tholepins, unspoiled.
	+3 letters: aneuploids, bluepoints, clothespin, depletions, despoiling, diplotenes, eosinophil, epilations, escaloping, explosions, expulsions, floppiness, impersonal, interlopes, lithopones, monopolies, monopolise, necropolis, nemophilas, neophilias, neoplasias, neoplastic, nonpareils, oenophiles, opalescing, opulencies, palimonies, penologies, penologist, phelonions, phonolites, piperonals, planetoids, pleonastic, pleustonic, pointelles, politeness, pollenosis, pollinates, pollinoses, polonaises, polyamines, polygonies, polygynies, polylysine, polytenies, porcelains, portliness, potentials, preclusion, prelusions, prolamines, purloiners, repletions, repulsions, scaloppine, septillion, simpletons, sloppiness, sphenoidal, suppletion, terpineols, unpolished, xenophiles.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.