O*me"ga (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. , i.e., the great or long o. Cf. Mickle.]

1.

The last letter of the Greek alphabet. See Alpha.

2.

The last; the end; hence, death.

"Omega! thou art Lord," they said. Tennyson.

Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending; hence, the chief, the whole.

Rev. i. 8.

The alpha and omega of science. Sir J. Herschel.

 

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