beta
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Is beta a Scrabble word?
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- Wordle No
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What is the meaning of beta?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (education, rare) An academic grade better than a gamma and worse than an alpha.Examples: "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."countablerareuncountable
2. (finance) Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices.Examples: "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."countableuncountable
3. (computing, video games)Examples: "The company is offering a public beta program to test the software."uncountable
4. (computing, video games)Examples: "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."countable
5. (computing, video games)Examples: "beta levels; beta characters; beta items in a video game"proscribeduncountable
6. (climbing) Information about a route which may aid someone in climbing it.countableuncountable
adj (English)
1. (computing) Preliminary; prerelease. Refers to an incomplete version of a product released for initial testing.not-comparable
2. (of a person, object or action) Associated with the beta male/female archetype.not-comparable
verb (English)
1. (computing) To preliminarily release computer software for initial testing prior to final release.
2. (chiefly Internet) To beta-read a text.Examples: "1999, sqira a., in alt.tv.x-files.creative http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.x-files.creative/msg/29d32d27e61755f2?dmode=source My thanks to Heather; who read it and betaed it. Thank you."; "2000, Elizabeth Durack, quoted in Angelina I. Karpovich, “The Audience as Editor: The Role of Beta Readers in Online Fan Fiction Communities” (essay), in Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse (editors), Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet, McFarland (2006), →ISBN, page 180, Beta’ing is time-consuming, so asking a lot of people to give you a detailed analysis isn’t the most polite thing to do."; "2002, Jane Davitt, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative/msg/9301606b391212c0?dmode=source The next part is written and beta'd (thanks, Jen!), ready to go but <shuffles feet> I haven't even started what should be the final part yet."Internet
noun (English)
1. (North India, Pakistan, colloquial, Hinglish) a term of endearment, used towards someone of equal or lower standing such as a friend or child, similar to brother or sonExamples: "Don't pick that up, beta, it's dirty."HinglishIndiaNorthPakistancolloquialcountableuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary