upsilon

IPA: ˈʌpsʌɫɑn

The twentieth letter of Classical and Modern Greek; the twenty-second letter of Old and Ancient Greek.
(physics) An upsilon meson, or bottomonium.

Examples of "upsilon" in Sentences

Scientists recently made sense of an odd jiggle in upsilon andromedae: the wobble's caused by three giant planets orbiting the star.
To add icing to the cake however there is also another instance of the name in Etruscan itself, Ruvries TLE 32, and no iota is present after the upsilon either.
The first reported discovery of a new particle by Lederman's group turned out to be erroneous; initially dubbed the upsilon, it was famously renamed the "oops-Leon."
By changing two letters, we can see how things could have been misinterpreted: an original lambda may look like an upsilon, an original theta may look like an Etruscan ef.
The Greek scholar will look to the Greek letters for Jesus: "iota eta sigma omicron upsilon sigma," which is variously transliterated IHSOYS or IHCOYC, the latter when converted to Latin letters using the common curved sigma variant.
This spelling seems to be quite old, going back as far as Deecke/Pauli, Etruskische Forschungen und Studien 1881 and when I look for myself at the tiny picture of the statuette provided in Jannot's book, I must admit that I'm pretty sure that I see a iota between the upsilon and the ef too.