Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Theta Chi was founded on April 10, 1856, at Norwich University in Norwich, Vermont, by two military cadets, Frederick Norton Freeman and Arthur Chase.A third man, Egbert Phelps, is considered to be the "assistant founder" for lending his help and advice to Freeman and Chase after transferring to Union College in 1854 (he was a member of the Chi Psi fraternity).
t. e. Greek letters are used in mathematics, science, engineering, and other areas where mathematical notation is used as symbols for constants, special functions, and also conventionally for variables representing certain quantities. In these contexts, the capital letters and the small letters represent distinct and unrelated entities.
This writing system, unrelated to the Greek alphabet, last appeared in the thirteenth century BC. In the late ninth century BC or early eighth century BC, the Greek alphabet emerged. [ 2 ] The period between the use of the two writing systems, during which no Greek texts are attested, is known as the Greek Dark Ages.
v. t. e. Theta (UK: / ˈθiːtə /, US: / ˈθeɪtə /) uppercase Θ or ϴ; lowercase θ[note 1] or ϑ; Ancient Greek: θῆτα thē̂ta [tʰɛ̂ːta]; Modern: θήτα thī́ta [ˈθita]) is the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter Teth . In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 9.
Theta Chi fraternity has chartered 245 chapters, of which 157 are active as of 2015. [1] Its first 24 chapters were given single Greek letter designations (Αlpha, Βeta, etc.), and all following chapters were given double Greek letter designations (Αlpha Beta, Αlpha Gamma, etc.) with no use of double letters (no Αlpha Alpha, Βeta Beta, etc.).
In physics, denotes electric or magnetic susceptibility. In rhetoric, both chiastic structure (a literary device) and the figure of speech Chiasmus derive from their names from the shape of the letter Chi. In mechanical engineering, chi is used as a symbol for the reduction factor of relevant buckling loads in the EN 1993, a European Standard ...
There are three methods for displaying formulas in Wikipedia: raw HTML, HTML with math templates (abbreviated here as { {math}}), and a subset of LaTeX implemented with the HTML markup <math></math> (referred to as LaTeX in this article).
Digamma or wau was part of the original archaic Greek alphabet as initially adopted from Phoenician. Like its model, Phoenician waw, it represented the voiced labial-velar approximant /w/ and stood in the 6th position in the alphabet between epsilon and zeta. It is the consonantal doublet of the vowel letter upsilon (/u/), which was also ...