Associations to the word «Eta»

Wiktionary

ETA, noun. The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek.
ETA, noun. (particle) A kind of electrically neutral meson having zero spin and isospin.
ETA, noun. A social outcast in Japan who is subjected to menial work, making up a class or caste of such people.
ETA MESON, noun. (physics) Either of two mesons made of a mixture of up, down and strange quarks and their antiquarks
ETA PRIME, adjective. (physics) Describing a specific form of an eta meson

Dictionary definition

ETA, noun. A terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees; "in 1968 ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of government officials".
ETA, noun. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.

Wise words

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.