Omega ( the last letter of the Greek alphabet ) is often used to denote the last, the end, or the ultimate limit of a set, in contrast to alpha, the first letter of the Greek alphabet.

" One notable contrast with the speeches recorded by Robert the Monk, Guibert of Nogent and Baldric of Dol is the lesser emphasis on Jerusalem itself, which Urban only once mentions as his own focus of concern: in the letter to the Flemish he writes, " they Turks have seized the Holy City of Christ, embellished by his passion and resurrection, and blasphemy to say — have sold her and her churches into abominable slavery.

Gothic ( not Latin-based ), by contrast, simply used a letter based on the Greek Υ for the same sound.

* Isaac Sarfati sends a circular letter to Rhineland, Swabia, Moravia and Hungary, praising the happy conditions of the Jews under the crescent in contrast to the " great torture chamber " under the cross and urging them to come to Turkey.

VHS machines, in contrast to Betamax and Beta's predecessor U-matic, use an " M-loading " system, also known as M-lacing, where the tape is drawn out by two threading posts and wrapped around more than 180 degrees of the head drum ( and also other tape transport components ) in a shape roughly approximating the letter M.

Boas ' student, the linguist Edward Sapir later noted that also English speakers pronounce sounds differently even when they think they are pronouncing the same sound, for example few English speakers realize that the sounds written with the letter < t > in the words " tick " and " stick " are phonetically different, the first being generally affricated and the other aspirated-a speaker of a language where this contrast is meaningful would instantly perceive them as different sounds and tend not to see them as different realizations of a single phoneme.

The name is spelled in the French style with a double letter " l ", in contrast to the English spelling of the adjacent Vermilion County, Illinois.

Schwarzschild, in contrast, chose a more elegant " polar-like " coordinate system and was able to produce an exact solution which he first set down in a letter to Einstein of 22 December 1915, written while Schwarzschild was serving in the war stationed on the Russian front.

Omicron ( uppercase Ο, lowercase ο, literally " small o ": Όμικρον, o mikron, micron meaning ' small ' in contrast to omega ) is the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet.

This is in contrast to legalism, or akribia ( Greek: ακριβεια )— strict adherence to the letter of the law of the church.

However, in contrast with Italian, Campidanesu uses j and k. Campidanesu also uses the special letter Ç ( ci truncada ), and the digraphs gh ( gei-aca ) and tz ( ti-zeta ).

Criteria that support the non-Christian origin of the letter include the observation that " king of the Jews " was not a Christian title, and that the letter's premise that Jesus lives on based on the wisdom of his teachings is in contrast to the Christian concept that Jesus continues to live through his resurrection.

In contrast to the barony of Dudley, which had been created by writ, this peerage was created by letter patent and with remainder to heirs male.

Not only were black-letter forms called Gothic script, but any other seemingly barbarian script, such as Visigothic, Beneventan, and Merovingian, were also labeled " Gothic ", in contrast to Carolingian minuscule, a highly legible script which the Humanists called littera antiqua, " the ancient letter ", wrongly believing that it was the script used by the Romans.

This was a reflection of the bitterness that had been generated by the struggle against Pope Pius IX in 1849 and 1860, and it was in sharp contrast to the letter that Garibaldi had written to the pope from Montevideo in 1847, before those events.

The name omega was used to imply the last, the end, or the ultimate limit of a set, in contrast to Alpha, the first letter of the Greek alphabet.

It is also the only nontraditional letter used to write foreign names and words adapted to the Irish language ( for example, Switzerland, or Helvetia, is Gaelicised as An Eilvéis ; Azerbaijan, in contrast, is written An Asarbaiseáin rather than * An Azarbaijáin ).

In contrast, since there is no second sound in Turkish which is related to the sound, the Turkish alphabet uses the letter " j " ( pronounced ) the same way as in other Latin scripts, with the tittle only on the lower case character: J j.

" In contrast, Fegan noted that after Hope had been " adjudicated bankrupt ," she had asked him for " a commendatory letter to take with her to America, and it was my painful duty to tell her that I did not feel I could do so.

In contrast to the north coast, a letter from Newport, Oregon printed in the Oregonian on January 17, 1880 reported

Lucasfilm's limited support and sanction of fan creations is a marked contrast to the attitudes of many other copyright holders, such as Fox Studios, which used a cease and desist letter to close a Max Payne short that was in production, and MGM, which has been known to force internet-distributed James Bond fan films offline, too.

The posting rule states, by contrast, that acceptance takes effect when a letter is posted.

A contrast of the scripture reading of, let us say, St. Augustine, John Bunyan, and Thomas Jefferson, all three of whom found in such study a real source of enlightenment, can tell us a great deal about these three men and the age that each represented and helped bring to conscious expression.

It can be seen too that when we contrast levels of compulsivity within the structured schools, the high compulsive children do better ( Af ).

The interaction effect, which is significant at the level, can be seen best in the contrast of mean scores.

But the use of stress in comparison and contrast, for example, can undermine distinctions such as these.

In contrast to " rhizopods ", where most of their morphologies can be mapped to modern classification systems, " actinopods " appear to be extensively polyphyletic.

In the hands of a skilled composer or arranger, the natural harmonics can be used to haunting melancholy effect or, by contrast, to create a charming pastoral flavor, as in the lilting " Ranz des Vaches " and works by Brahms, Rossini, and Britten cited below.

Machiavelli goes on to reason that Agathocles ' success, in contrast to other criminal tyrants, was due to his ability to mitigate his crimes by limiting them to those that " are applied at one blow and are necessary to one's security, and that are not persisted in afterwards unless they can be turned to the advantage of the subjects ".

By contrast, while defendants in most civil law systems can be compelled to give a statement, this statement is not subject to cross-examination by the prosecutor and not given under oath.

An important weakness of abatis, in contrast to barbed wire, is that it can be destroyed by fire.

In contrast, Jains agree with Hindus that violence in self-defense can be justified, and they agree that a soldier who kills enemies in combat is performing a legitimate duty.

Within 4 – 5 days the inflammation and the concomitant dead brain tissue are surrounded with a capsule, which gives the lesion the famous ring-enhancing lesion appearance on CT examination with contrast ( since intravenously applied contrast material can not pass through the capsule, it is collected around the lesion and looks as a ring surrounding the relatively dark lesion ).

In contrast to philosophical definitions, an operational definition can be tested experimentally, and is useful for current research.

By contrast, several countries can also use the same currency ( for example, the euro ), or one country can declare the currency of another country to be legal tender.

In contrast, coma resulting from a severe traumatic brain injury or subarachnoid hemorrhage can be instantaneous.

The term denumerable can also be used to mean countably infinite, or countable, in contrast with the term nondenumerable.

In contrast, audio codecs for recording or broadcast can use high-latency audio compression techniques to achieve higher fidelity at a lower bit-rate.

In contrast, modern control theory is carried out in the state space, and can deal with multi-input and multi-output ( MIMO ) systems.

Some people contrast content-control with censoring, claiming that limiting the content one can view is similar to how dictatorships limit the content its citizens can view in order to promote one idea.

In contrast, Chapter 7 governs the process of a liquidation bankruptcy ( although liquidation can go under this chapter ), while Chapter 13 provides a reorganization process for the majority of private individuals.

One difference between eukaryotic and prokaryotic genes is that eukaryotic genes can contain introns ( intervening DNA sequences ) which are not coding sequences, in contrast with exons, which are DNA coding sequences.

In contrast, an instance of this problem is a rather concrete utterance, which can serve as the input for a decision problem.

In contrast to the static levels of Wolfenstein 3D, those in Doom are highly dynamic: platforms can lower and rise, floors can rise sequentially to form staircases, and bridges can rise and fall.