Beta

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim An academic grade better than a gamma and worse than an alpha.

   “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 […]”

3. isim Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices.

   “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.”

4. isim The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing.

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

5. isim Software in such a phase; a preliminary version.

   “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.”

6. isim Any kind of content from early development that was not used in the final product.

   “beta levels; beta characters; beta items in a video game”

7. isim Information about a route which may aid someone in climbing it.
8. isim A beta particle or beta ray.
9. isim Sideslip angle.
10. isim The range of engine power settings in which the blade pitch angle of a constant-speed propeller is controlled directly by the angle of the engine's throttle lever (rather than varying with engine torque and airspeed to maintain a constant propeller RPM), allowing the propeller to be disked to generate high drag and slow the aircraft quickly.
11. isim Alternative spelling of betta (“fish in the genus Betta”).
12. isim Ellipsis of beta male, a man who is less competent or desirable than an alpha male.

    ““I guess in your psychological language of alpha males and beta males, I would be firmly in the camp that prefers the more laid-back betas,” she took a deep breath, “like your father.””

13. isim In omegaverse fiction, a person of a secondary sex similar to normal humans, lacking the biological drives of alphas and omegas but generally capable of bonding and mating with either.

    “Many A/B/O stories posit societies where biological imperatives divide people based on wolf pack hierarchies into sexual dominants (alphas), sexual submissives (omegas), and everyone else (betas).”

14. sıfat Identifying a molecular position in an organic chemical compound.
15. sıfat Designates the second in an order of precedence.
16. sıfat Preliminary; prerelease. Refers to an incomplete version of a product released for initial testing.
17. sıfat Associated with the beta male/female archetype.
18. fiil To preliminarily release computer software for initial testing prior to final release.
19. fiil To beta-read a text.

    “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.”

20. isim a term of endearment, used towards someone of equal or lower standing such as a friend or child, similar to brother or son

    “Don't pick that up, beta, it's dirty.”

21. özel isim Clipping of Betamax

    “The digital revolution is changing these rules, but as of this writing, generally you submit your music video to the network for review on Beta tape.”

22. isim A member of Generation Beta.

    “For the Betas, AI and robots will be a normal part of life for them.”