omicron
Americannoun
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the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet (O,o ).
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the vowel sound represented by this letter.
noun
Etymology
Origin of omicron
< Greek ō mikrón, literally, small o. Cf. omega
Example Sentences
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Washington’s manic quarantining of cruise-ship passengers, its restricting of foreign entry, probably did next to nothing to slow spread until a vaccine and the less-virulent omicron variants arrived, which took a year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
A show-threatening omicron shutdown, illness and the loss of Adam, who passed away at the end of April 2023.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024
The researchers measured how many of the participants' neutralizing antibodies were specific for the original variant, the omicron variant or both.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2024
This decline was evident among those infected in the early phase of the pandemic and those infected when the delta and omicron variants were dominant.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2024
During the peak of ancient astronomy, Greek astronomical tables regularly employed zero; its symbol was the lowercase omicron, o, which looks very much like our modern-day zero, though it’s probably a coincidence.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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