Omega (disambiguation)
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Omega is the last letter in the Greek alphabet. See that article for more uses of the upper case (Ω) or lower case (ω) letter as a symbol.
Omega may also refer to:
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[edit] General
- OMEGA, a Latvian special operations unit
- Ohms law, the formula for calculating resistance in an electrical circuit
- Omega (TEX), a Unicode extension of the TEX typesetting system
- Omega (camera), a brand of cameras and enlargers
- Omega loop, a protein motif
- Omega point, an idea in philosophy (eschatology) advanced by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Omega, Oklahoma
- Omega-3/Omega-6/Omega-9, a classification system of fatty acids
- Omega Watches, a Swiss watch company
- Omega Engineering, a Bridgeport, NJ-based manufacturer of industrial measurement and control products
- Omega Navigation System, the first worldwide radio navigation system
- Opel Omega, a car model by Opel/Vauxhall
- Oldsmobile Omega, another General Motors car, mechanically unrelated to the above
- In sociobiology, the lowest rank in a dominance hierarchy
- Omega Drivers, third-party drivers for ATI Technologies and NVIDIA display cards
- Omega D.C., a gay bar in Washington, D.C.
- Omega X
- Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts (OMEGA), a wrestling promotion created by Matt and Jeff Hardy
- Omega block, a typical block pattern in meteorology
- Omega particle, a subatomic particle
- Omega (cider), a strong white cider
- Omega Psi Phi, African American Fraternity and member of the National Pan-Hellenic Council
- Omega Programming Language, a pure object-oriented programming language based on prototypes.
[edit] Mathematics
- Omega function, another name for Lambert's W function
- Omega constant, a specific value of derived from Lambert's W function
- Chaitin's constant, or Halting Probability, written as Ω
- Omega, the uncountable set of all countable ordinal numbers, denoted Ω
[edit] Fiction
- Omega (Doctor Who), a fictional character from the television series
- Omega (Doctor Who audio), a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on Doctor Who
- Omega particle (Star Trek), a fictional chemical substance from Star Trek: Voyager
- Omega Directive, a top-secret Starfleet policy in Star Trek: Voyager
- Omega Ranger, a character from Power Rangers: S.P.D.
- The Omega Man, a 1971 science fiction film
- Omega, an alias of O'Malley, a character in Red vs. Blue; see List of characters in Red vs. Blue
- Omegamon and Omegamon X, the Japanese names for the Digimon characters, Omnimon, as well as his X-Antibody counterpart, Omnimon X.
- Doctor Omega, a 1906 science fiction novel by Arnould Galopin
- Omega, a science fiction novel by Jack McDevitt
[edit] Comic books
- Omega Red, a comic book supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. Also, the most powerful marvel comics mutants are classified as "Omega-level mutants".
- Omega, a comic book villain from the Legion of Super-Heroes.
- Omega Men, a DC Comics superhero group.
- Omega the Unknown, a 1970s Marvel Comics series created by Steve Gerber
- Omega - film, a Greek thriller, directed by Vasilis Blioumis
[edit] Video games
- Omega (1987 computer game), a Roguelike game
- Omega (1989 computer game), a game by Origin Systems
- Omega (Mega Man Zero), a large, powerful Reploid in Mega Man Zero 3
- E-123 Omega, a robot in the Sonic the Hedgehog series
- Omega (Sometimes called Omega WEAPON), a recurring boss in the Final Fantasy series; see Weapon (Final Fantasy)
- Omega Dead or Alive (video game series). Final boss of the Dead or Alive 3 game in the series.
[edit] Music
- Omega Cymbals, A brand of cymbals
- Omēga and the Mechanical Animals, a fictitious rock band portrayed by Marilyn Manson on their album Mechanical Animals
- Omega (band), a Hungarian rock band
- Omega No. 5, an album by Scaterd Few
- Omega (song), a song by Rebecca St. James.