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About|the Greek letter ?|the genus of the same name|Omicron (genus)|video game|Omikron: The Nomad SoulWiktionary|?|?Greek Alphabet|letter=omicron Omicron (uppercase ? , lowercase ? , literally "small o": ?µ?????, o mikron , micron meaning 'small' in contrast to omega ) is the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet . In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 70. It is rarely used in mathematics because it is indistinguishable from the Latin alphabet|Latin letters O , o and easily confused with the Numerical digit|digit 0 (number)|0 . This letter is derived from the Phoenician letter Ayin . In modern Greek , omicron represents the sound IPAblink|?. Letters that arose from omicron include Roman O and Cyrillic O (Cyrillic)|O .
In Unicode the majuscule|capital letter is codepoint U+039F and the Lower case|lowercase is U+03BF.
The upper-case letter of omicron (O) was originally used in mathematics as a symbol for Big O notation , representing the asymptotic rate of growth of a function.
In popular culture
Omicron is frequently used to designate the thirteenth star in a constellation group, using a combination of magnitude and position. http://www.astro.illinois.edu/~jkaler/sow/starname.html University of Illinois: star naming conventions Stars with the omicron designation include Omicron Andromedae , Omicron Ceti , and Omicron Persei . The last of these is well-known due to its Stars and planetary systems in fiction#Omicron Persei|use as a setting in science fiction , including Star Trek , Mystery Science Theater 3000 , Transformers , and Futurama .
