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noun/ˈiːtə//ˈeɪtə/
  1. 1

    The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek.

    • Greek was an exercise in making the familiar strange. Its alphabet mapped onto the Roman alphabet, but only partly so, and often letters did not sound how they looked — a rho (Ρ) was not a P, and an eta (Η) was not an H.
  2. 2

    A kind of electrically neutral meson having zero spin and isospin.particle

noun/ˈeɪtə/
  1. 1

    A social outcast in Japan who is subjected to menial work, making up a class or caste of such people.

noun
  1. 1

    Alternative form of ita (“kind of palm tree”).alt-ofalternative

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