English Explanatory Dictionary

rho

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient.
  2. The sensitivity of the option value to the risk-free interest rate.
noun
  1. Any of a family of GTP-binding proteins
name
  1. A town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Lombardy, Italy.

Pronunciation

/ɹəʊ/ /ɹoʊ/ en-us-rho.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Rho.wav

Word forms

rho rhos

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek ῥῶ (rhô) English rho From the name of the Ancient Greek letter ῥῶ (rhô).

Derived words

chi-rho Pollard's rho algorithm Rho factor rho meson rhotic Spearman's rho
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