Definitions for Gamma

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Gamma gam·ma

Spelling: [gam-uh]

IPA: /ˈgæm ə/

Gamma is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in Gamma (aagmm).

Definitions for Gamma

noun

1. the third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ).
2. the consonant sound represented by this letter.
3. the third in a series of items.
4. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. a star that is usually the third brightest of a constellation:
5. a unit of weight equal to one microgram.
6. Physics. a unit of magnetic field strength, equal to 10− 5 gauss.
7. Photography. a measure of the degree of development of a negative or print.
8. Television. an analogous numerical indication of the degree of contrast between light and dark in the reproduction of an image in television.
9. Chiefly British. a grade showing that an individual student is in the third, or lowest, of three scholastic sections in a class. Compare alpha (def 7), beta (def 8).

Origin of Gamma

From the Greek word gámma

Examples for Gamma

No word on gamma Rays, Delta Squad, Epsilononicom, or Zetabyte.

We bombarded it with every radiation we could think of, from radio to gamma and it just reflected them.

Then they were instantly destroyed by atomic bombing, or gamma rays.

He created his own agency, gamma, in 1966, though he later left to join Magnum.

When the gamma rays enter the sleeve, they interact with that photon gas, annihilating into electron-positron pairs.

Only gamma rays can do it, since all other forms of light are too low-energy.

These have been named the alpha, beta, and gamma rays, respectively.

Hooke had noticed, in 1664, that the star gamma Arietis was double.

The "gamma rays" are waves, like the X-rays, not material particles.

The name is descriptive: they are extremely intense bursts of gamma rays, the highest energy form of light.