Beta

Quick meaning: Beta is a noun meaning (education, rare) An academic grade better than a gamma and worse than an alpha.

Meaning

(education, rare) An academic grade better than a gamma and worse than an alpha.

More Meanings

1. (finance) Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices.
2. Software in such a phase; a preliminary version.
3. Any kind of content from early development that was not used in the final product.
4. (climbing) Information about a route which may aid someone in climbing it.
5. (physics) A beta particle or beta ray.
6. 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.
7. The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing.

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

Word Forms

• betas
• betaing
• betaed

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