Definitions for Epsilon

Epsilon ep·si·lon

Spelling: [ep-suh-lon, -luh n or, esp. British, ep- Epsilon is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 269 anagrams from letters in Epsilon (eilnops).

Definitions for Epsilon

noun

  1. the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet (E, ε).
  2. the consonant sound represented by this letter.
  3. Mathematics. an arbitrarily small quantity, used to indicate that a given quantity is small, or close to zero.

Origin of Epsilon

Greek è psīlón bare, simple e (as opposed to diphthongal spellings which in later Gk represented the same sound)

Examples for Epsilon

The fact still remains that epsilon had better be habitable or Pan-Asia will scream we're hogging it.

Turn your glass upon the star shown in the map just above Mu (μ) and epsilon (ε).

A pilot comes back from epsilon Eridani, for example, and insists on giving everybody left-handed salutes.

Other airships, the Delta and epsilon, of increased size and engine-power, were designed between 1911 and 1913.

And goeth from epsilon down to Mu: the reference is to some numbering on the parchment.

epsilon Lyr, which is the northern one of these two stars, may be used as a test of keen eyesight.

Reaching the hottest of all—epsilon Orionis and two stars in Argo—hydrogen is predominant, with traces of a few metals and carbon.

The most southerly star in this pentagon is known as epsilon Botes and is one of the finest double stars in the heavens.

Next look at epsilon (ε), and you will find near it two seventh-magnitude companions, making a beautiful little triangle.

I dreamed they all committed suicide because epsilon was too good for them.

Word Value for Epsilon
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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