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Beta (UK: / ˈ b iː t ə /, US: / ˈ b eɪ t ə /; uppercase Β, lowercase β, or cursive ϐ; Ancient Greek: βῆτα, romanized: bē̂ta or Greek: βήτα, romanized: víta) is the second letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 2.
The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. [2] [3] It was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, [4] and is the earliest known alphabetic script to have developed distinct letters for consonants as well as vowels. [5]
The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet. Old English was first written down using the Latin alphabet during the 7th century. During the centuries that followed, various letters entered or fell out of use. By the 16th century, the present set of 26 letters had largely stabilised:
The voiced bilabial fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is β , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is B.
The Greek spelling alphabet is a spelling alphabet (or "phonetic alphabet") for Greek, i.e. an accepted set of easily differentiated names given to the letters of the alphabet for the purpose of spelling out words.
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the beta coefficient, the non-diversifiable risk, of an asset in mathematical finance; the sideslip angle of an airplane; a beta particle (e − or e +) the beta brain wave in brain or cognitive sciences; ecliptic latitude in astronomy; the ratio of plasma pressure to magnetic pressure in plasma physics; β-reduction in lambda calculus
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