Gamma_(disambiguation)
Gamma (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
Gamma (Γ or γ) is the third letter of the Greek alphabet.
Gamma may also refer to:
- Tropical Storm Gamma (2005), that made landfall in Honduras
- Hurricane Gamma, that made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula in 2020
- Gamma correction, a property of images and video displays
- Γ, the representation of molecular symmetry in inorganic chemistry
Computing
- Gamma software, a stage in the software release life cycle
- Elias gamma coding, in computer science, encoding, compression
Mathematics
- Euler's constant (γ), a mathematical constant
- Gamma test (statistics) (γ) or Goodman and Kruskal's gamma, a statistical test
- Gamma distribution (Γ), a probability distribution function
- Gamma function (Γ), a mathematical function
- P-adic gamma function (Γ), a mathematical function
- Feferman–Schütte ordinal Γ0
- Typing environment (Γ), within a type system
Physics
- Gamma ray or gamma radiation (γ or
), an electromagnetic ray
- Photon (γ), an elementary particle, the quantum of the electromagnetic field
- Propagation constant (γ), of an electromagnetic wave
- Heat capacity ratio or adiabatic index (γ), the ratio of the heat capacity at constant pressure to that at constant volume
- Lorentz factor (γ), in relativity and astronomy
- Gamma (eclipse) (γ), how central (how close to the middle of the body) an eclipse is
- Shear strain (γ)
- Surface tension (γ)
- Body effect (γ), on threshold voltage in field-effect transistor technology
- Christoffel symbols (Γ), in general relativity
- Circulation (physics) (Γ)
- Reflection coefficient (Γ), of a wave reflected by an impedance discontinuity
- Decay width (Γ), of a particle in high-energy physics
- GAMMA, an extensive air shower array in Armenia
- γ, a non-SI unit of magnetic flux density, 1nT
- γ, the third-brightest star of a constellation, in Bayer designation
- Γ, center of the Brillouin zone
Biology and medicine
- Gamma wave, a type of brain wave
- Gamma-glutamyltransferase, a transferase present in the cell membranes of many tissues
- SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant, one of the variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19
- gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid, a neurotransmitter and a depressant drug
- gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane or Lindane, an organochlorine chemical and neurotoxin
- Gamma, Missouri, a community in the US
- Gamma Island (Greenland)
- General Motors Gamma platform, a subcompact automobile platform by General Motors
- Bristol Siddeley Gamma, a family of British rocket engines
- Hyundai Gamma engine, a family of 1.6 L gasoline inline-4 engines
- Suzuki RG250 Gamma, a two-stroke motorcycle
- Gamma (store), a Dutch hardware-store chain
- Gamma Group, developers of FinFisher and associated suites of malware
- Gamma (agency), a French photo agency
- Groupe des Architectes Modernes Marocains, an architecture collective in Morocco
- Gamma (band), American rock band
- Gamma (miniseries), a 1975 Italian television miniseries
- Gamma (wrestler), a Japanese professional wrestler working for the Dragon Gate promotion
- Gamma chord, a type of musical chord
- Gamma (album), a 2024 album by Gesaffelstein
Fictional entities
- E-102 Gamma, one of the E-Series characters in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise
- Gamma Akutabi, a fictional character from the manga Zombiepowder.
- Γ, the emblem of the character Waluigi in the Mario franchise
- Gamma Metroids, an evolution of the Metroid species from the game Metroid II: Return of Samus
- Gamma radiation, responsible for creation of, and the power source to, The Incredible Hulk and derivative characters
- Latin gamma (ɣ), an IPA symbol for voiced velar fricative and in the alphabets of African languages
- Voiced velar fricative (γ), in phonetics
- Gamma (finance) (Γ), a second order derivative of an option pricing formula
- Gamma, a classification of sensitive compartmented information
- Gamma matrices, in mathematical physics
- The Gamma People, a 1956 British-American film
- Gama (disambiguation)
- Gamma ray (disambiguation)
- Grama (disambiguation)
- Gam (disambiguation)
- Gram (disambiguation)
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