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ETA

UK/ˈeɪtə/ US/ˈeɪtə/ fairly common

noun

1.

a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create on independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees

  • “in 1968 ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of government officials”
2.

the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet

Origin

From Japanese 穢多 (“full of filth”) (literal translation, now considered derogatory in Japan).

Phrases

  • Dirichlet eta function
  • eta conversion
  • eta meson
  • eta prime
  • eta reduction

Related words

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