Beta

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Beta (β) is the second letter of the Greek alphabet. Beta or BETA may also refer to:

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[edit] Media

[edit] Film & Television

  • Beta Quadrant, one of four quadrants in the galaxy in Star Trek.
  • Beta Hirogen, the second in command of a Hirogen hunting party, as seen in Star Trek: Voyager.
  • BETA, an organization in the 1986 TV series The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
  • Beta, a 1992 Bollywood film directed by Indra Kumar
  • Beings of the Extra Terrestrial origin which is Adversary of human race (BETA) an alien race from the video game series Muv-Luv.

[edit] Internet and computing

See also the 'technology' section, below.

  • Beta version, a website or online project either in pre-release, during testing or shortly after release to the public.
  • Beta, a term use for editor in the fanfiction community.
  • B3ta, a British humour webcommunity
  • Perpetual beta, a term used to describe software or a system which never leaves the development stage of beta.

[edit] Music

[edit] Misc

  • Beta (Magic: The Gathering), the second (revised) part of the first set of the card game Magic: The Gathering
  • β is used (along with other Greek letters) in the Earthbound, or Mother, series of Nintendo RPGs as a classification of the strength of a PSI technique

[edit] Places

[edit] Science

[edit] Biology

  • Beta (plant), a genus of flowering plants, mostly referred to as “beets”
  • Beta male, a rank in a community of social animals
  • Beta-endorphin, a kind of neurotransmitter
  • Beta carbon, in organic chemistry — the second carbon atom in a chain when counting from a functional group
  • Beta cell, a type of cell in the pancreas, which produces insulin
  • Beta sheet, a secondary protein structure
  • Beta car , a car that has been tuned up, modified

[edit] Finance

  • Beta coefficient, a parameter in Capital Asset Pricing Model that describes how sensitive the expected return of a stock (or portfolio) is to the market

[edit] Mathematics

[edit] Physics

  • Beta (plasma physics), β, in plasma physics — the ratio of thermal to magnetic pressure in plasma
  • Beta (velocity), β, in special relativity — the speed of an object relative to the speed of light
  • Beta-function, β(g), in quantum field theory — a function that encodes the dependence of a coupling constant]], g, on the energy scale, μ, of a given physical process
  • Beta particle, a name used to refer to high-energy electrons (β) or positrons (β+) emitted by certain types of radioactive nuclei
  • Compressibility, β, a measure of the relative volume change of a fluid or solid as a response to a pressure change
  • Thermodynamic beta, β, in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics — a numerical quantity related to the thermodynamic temperature of a system

[edit] Psychology

[edit] Technology

[edit] Automotive

[edit] Computers-related

[edit] Other technology-related

  • Beta (time signal), a time signal service broadcast in the Very Low Frequency range in Russia
  • Beta, β, the common-emitter current gain of a Bipolar Junction Transistor
  • Betamax, home videocassette tape recording format developed by Sony
    • Betacam, a family of half-inch professional videotape products developed by Sony

[edit] Other uses

  • Beta (climbing), route guidance for rock climbers
  • Hurricane Beta (2005), a 2005 hurricane
  • National Beta Club, a high school honor society
  • Beta quadra, one of the four quadras in socionics
  • Beta Theta Pi (ΒΘΠ), a social collegiate fraternity at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA; part of the Miami Triad
  • β, a symbol used to represent the voiced bilabial fricative sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet
  • Beta Utensili, an Italian manufacturer of tools

[edit] See also

  • Betta, a genus of fish, often misspelled “beta”
  • ß, a German letter that resembles β
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