Definitions for upsilons

upsilons up·si·lon

Spelling: [yoop-suh-lon, -luh n, uhp-; Upsilons is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 217 anagrams from letters in upsilons (ilnopssu).

Definitions for upsilons

noun

  1. the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet (Υ, υ).
  2. the vowel sound represented by this letter.
  3. Also called upsilon particle. Physics. any of a family of heavy, short-lived, neutral mesons that are composed of a bottom quark and its antiquark. Symbol: Υ, υ.

Origin of upsilons

1615-25; Late Greek ŷ psīlón literally, simple u (to distinguish it from the digraph oi, pronounced the same in LGk)

Examples for upsilons

She issued an order, therefore, that for a certain time upsilon was to have no playthings.

This species is the ypsilon of Borkhausen, and the upsilon of other authors.

Word Value for upsilons
Scrable

9

Words with friends

13

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