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Rho

/ɹəʊ/ · noun

Meaning

The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient..

Definitions by Sense

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient.
  2. (finance) The sensitivity of the option value to the risk-free interest rate.

Example Sentences

Greek was an exercise in making the familiar strange. Its alphabet mapped onto the Roman alphabet, but only partly so, and often letters did not sound how they looked – a rho (Ρ) was not a P, and an eta (Η) was not an H.

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What does rho mean?

Rho means The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient..

What is a synonym for rho?

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How do you use rho in a sentence?

Greek was an exercise in making the familiar strange. Its alphabet mapped onto the Roman alphabet, but only partly so, and often letters did not sound how they looked – a rho (Ρ) was not a P, and an eta (Η) was not an H.

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