digamma

Noun

Meaning

A letter (/, /) of the Greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Examples

All three poets, for example, employed digamma inconsistently, sometimes allowing it to affect syllable length and meter, sometimes not. Source: Internet

After sound changes eliminated /w/ from spoken Greek, digamma was used only as a numeral. Source: Internet

However, the Greek alphabet also gave rise to other alphabets, and some of these retained letters descended from digamma. Source: Internet

These metrical inconsistencies (along with a knowledge of comparative linguistics) have led scholars to infer the presence of a lost digamma consonant in an old form of that line. Source: Internet

Latin 'F,' despite being pronounced differently, is ultimately descended from digamma and closely resembles it in form. Source: Internet

The digamma function, which is the derivative of this function, is also commonly seen. Source: Internet

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