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upsilon

N อักษร ตัว ที่  20 ของ ภาษา กรีก 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

UPSILON

UPSILON Up "si *lon, n. [Gr. 'y ^ psilo `n bare, mere, simple y.]

 

Defn: The 2 th letter (U, u ) of the Greek alphabet, a vowel having originally the sound of oo as in room, becoming before the 4th century b. c. that French u or Ger. ü. Its equivalent in English is u or y.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

upsilon

up si lon |ˈəpsəˌlän, ˈ (y )o͞op -ˈ (j )ʊpsəˌlɑn | noun the twentieth letter of the Greek alphabet ( Υ, υ ), transliterated in the traditional Latin style as ‘y ’ (as in cycle ) or in the modern style as ‘u ’ (as in the etymologies of this dictionary ). (Upsilon ) [ followed by Latin genitive ] Astronomy the twentieth star in a constellation: Upsilon Scorpii. (also upsilon particle ) Physics a meson thought to contain a b quark bound to its antiparticle, produced in particle accelerators. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: Greek, literally plain or simple U, from psilos plain, referring to the need to distinguish upsilon from the diphthong oi: in late Greek the two had (and in modern Greek still have ) the same pronunciation.

 

Oxford Dictionary

upsilon

upsilon |ʌpˈsʌɪlən, juːp -, ˈʊpsɪlɒn, ˈjuːp -| noun the twentieth letter of the Greek alphabet ( Υ, υ ), transliterated as ‘u ’ or (chiefly in English words derived through Latin ) as ‘y ’. ( Upsilon ) [ followed by Latin genitive ] Astronomy the twentieth star in a constellation: Upsilon Scorpii. (also upsilon particle ) Physics a meson thought to contain a b quark bound to its antiparticle, produced in particle accelerators. ORIGIN Greek, literally slender U , from psilos slender , referring to the need to distinguish upsilon from the diphthong oi: in late Greek the two had the same pronunciation.

 

French Dictionary

upsilon

upsilon n. m. inv. nom masculin invariable Lettre grecque. Prononciation Le n se prononce, [ypsilɔn ]; le nom rime avec donne

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

upsilon

up si lon /júːpsəlɑ̀n |juːpsáɪlən /名詞 U C イプシロン 〘ギリシャ語アルファベットの第20字; γ, υ; ローマ字のU, uまたはY, yに当たる 〙.