Iota \I*o"ta\, n. [L., fr. Gr. 'iw^ta. See Jot.]
[1913 Webster]
1. The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet ([iota])
corresponding with the English i.
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2. [from iota being the smallest letter in the Greek
alphabet.] A very small quantity or degree; a jot; a
particle.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
They never depart an iota from the authentic
formulas of tyranny and usurpation. --Burke.
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Iota subscript (Gr. Gram.), iota written beneath a
preceding vowel, as a,, h,, w,, -- done when iota is
silent.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
iota
n 1: a tiny or scarcely detectable amount [syn: shred, scintilla,
whit, tittle, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, smidge]
2: the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet
WordNet (r) 2.0
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "iota":
ace, atom, bit, crumb, dab, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet,
drop, droplet, dwarf, farthing, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gnat,
gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair, handful, jot, little,
little bit, microbe, microorganism, midge, minim, minimum, minutia,
minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, nutshell, ounce, particle,
pebble, pinch, pinhead, pinpoint, pittance, point, ray, scrap,
scruple, smidgen, smitch, snip, snippet, speck, spoonful, spot,
thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount, trivia,
vanishing point, whit
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Iota
A specification language.
["The Iota Programming System", R. Nakajima er al, Springer
1983].
(1994-12-08)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
Iota, LA (town, FIPS 37410)
Location: 30.32650 N, 92.49480 W
Population (1990): 1256 (527 housing units)
Area: 3.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 70543
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Iota, LA -- U.S. town in Louisiana
Population (2000): 1376
Housing Units (2000): 583
Land area (2000): 1.269242 sq. miles (3.287321 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.269242 sq. miles (3.287321 sq. km)
FIPS code: 37410
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 30.328500 N, 92.493123 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 70543
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Iota, LA
Iota
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
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