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Definition of "zeta" []

  • The sixth letter of the Greek alphabet. See Table at alphabet. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "zeta" in a sentence
  • "Riemann had found one very special imaginary landscape, generated by something called the zeta function, which he discovered held the secret to prime numbers."
  • "For the prefix challenged, a zeta is a thousand exas."
  • "He realized that he could use something called the zeta function to build a landscape where the peaks and troughs in a three-dimensional graph correspond to the outputs of the function."