Meaning

The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase..

Definitions by Sense

1. The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase.
2. (education, rare) An academic grade better than a gamma and worse than an alpha.
3. (finance) Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices.
4. The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing.
5. Software in such a phase; a preliminary version.
6. Any kind of content from early development that was not used in the final product.
7. (climbing) Information about a route which may aid someone in climbing it.
8. (physics) A beta particle or beta ray.

Example Sentences

But let me tell you happy extroverts that only Vera Telfer and H. A. C. Evans got even an alpha minus; only T. E. Hendrie got a beta plus […]

Mr Taylor would hardly give a beta minus to one of his history students […]

The English class was for me delightful. My essays, still written under the influence of Kubla Khan, nearly always got a beta plus.

An inspection of the results indicate that Property Trusts is the lowest risk industry with a long-run beta of 0.4520 while Gold is the highest risk industry with a long-run beta of 1.5229.

The company is offering a public beta program to test the software.

He quickly deduced our goal—ship a quality beta—but he also quickly discerned that we had no idea about the quality of the product because of our pile of untriaged bugs.

We will assume you got the .tgz version—later 2.x series versions such as 2.5.2 or 2.6.0 should be okay, provided they are production releases (not alphas, betas, or release candidates).

Before Evolve had even seen its first beta, the game's publisher dipped its toe into presenting it as an eSport.

Word Forms

• betas
• betaing
• betaed

Synonyms for beta

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When Should You Use Beta?

Use beta when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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