Omega (disambiguation)

Omega is the last letter in the Greek alphabet. (See that article for more uses of the upper case (Ω) or lower case (ω) letter as a symbol.)

Omega may also refer to:

Places

• Omega, California, now uninhabited
  • Omega Hydraulic Diggings, historical gold mining site
• Omega, Georgia
• Omega, Indiana
• Omega, Oklahoma
• Omega Development Site, planned to be one of Europe's largest business parks, in Warrington, Cheshire

People

• Omega (singer), a Dominican merengue singer
• Kenny Omega, ring name of Canadian professional wrestler Tyson Smith (born 1983)
• Queen Omega (singer), a Trinidadian reggae singer

Aerospace

• OmegA (rocket)
• Advance Omega, a Swiss paraglider design
• Omega Aerial Refueling Services

Alphabet

• Omega (Cyrillic) (Ѡ, ѡ), the Cyrillic counterpart of the Greek omega

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Omega (comics), a comic book villain from the Legion of Super-Heroes
• Omega (Doctor Who), a fictional character from the television series
• Omega, an alias of O'Malley, a character in Red vs. Blue
• Omega, a character in the Maximum Ride book series
• Omega, the fictional government agency in the film True Lies
• Omega, a recurring boss in the Final Fantasy series
• Omega, a character in the Mega Man Zero series
• E-123 Omega, a fictional character from the Sonic the Hedgehog series
• Genra, also known as Omega, the final boss of Dead or Alive 3
• Kamen Rider Orga, a fictional character motif as (Ω)
• Omega 13, a time machine in the 1999 science fiction/comedy film Galaxy Quest that can send the user back in time thirteen seconds
• "Omega Flowey" is the second-final or final boss of the 2015 game Undertale, depending on the player's choices in the game
• Omega Ranger, a character from Power Rangers: S.P.D.
• Omega Rugal, an enhanced, powered version of Rugal Bernstein, one of the final bosses of The King of Fighters game series
• Omega the Unknown, a character in the Marvel Comics universe
• The Omegas, a group of mutant outcasts in the 2006 film X-Men: The Last Stand

Films

• Omega (film), a Greek film
• The Omega Man, a 1971 science fiction film starring Charlton Heston

Games

• Omega (1989 computer game), by Origin Systems
• Omega Boost, a videogame by Polyphony Digital
• Pokémon Omega Ruby, the 2014 remake of the 2003 videogame Pokémon Ruby

Literature

• Omega (Harris novel), a 2000 novel by Christine Harris
• Omega (novel), a 2003 science fiction novel by Jack McDevitt
• Doctor Omega, a 1906 French science fiction novel by Arnould Galopin
• Omega: The Last Days of the World, an 1894 science fiction novel by Camille Flammarion

Music

Groups

• Omega (band), a Hungarian rock band
• Omega and the Mechanical Animals, a moniker adopted by Marilyn Manson Marilyn Manson and his band Manson's late 90s glam era

Labels

• Omega (record label), a Dutch record label

Albums

• Omega (Alyson Avenue album)
• Omega (Asia album)
• Omega, a Japanese-language album by Hound Dog
• Omega, an album by the Finnish black metal band Azaghal
• Omega, an album by the Spanish flamenco singer Enrique Morente
• Juggernaut: Omega, an album by the American djent band Periphery

Songs

• "Ω", a song by BT from _
• "Omega", a song by Rebecca St. James from Pray
• "Omega", a song by Bruce Dickinson from Accident of Birth
• "Omega", a song by SZA from Z
• "Omega", a song by Periphery from Juggernaut: Omega

Periodicals

• Omega (journal), an academic journal dedicated to the study of death and dying

Television

• Omega (Doctor Who audio), a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on Doctor Who
• "Omega", the 12th episode of the TV series Dollhouse
• "The Omega Directive", an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, in which a substance called "Omega" is the subject

Brands and enterprises

Automobiles

• Chevrolet Omega, a car model by General Motors do Brasil
• Oldsmobile Omega, a car model by General Motors
• Opel Omega, a car model by Opel/Vauxhall

Other brands and enterprises

• Omega (camera), a brand of cameras and enlargers
• Omega Pharma, a Belgian pharmaceutical company
• Omega SA, a luxury watch company currently owned by the Swatch Group
• Omega Training Group, company which provides support for defense-oriented programs

Computing and technology

• Omega (T_eX), a Unicode extension of the T_eX typesetting system
• OMEGA, an instrument on Mars Express Mars orbiter
• Omega drivers, third-party drivers for ATI and nVidia graphics cards
• Ωmega interpreter, a strict pure functional programming language
• OMEGA Navigation System, the first worldwide radio navigation system
• Omega2 (computer), a single-board small form-factor computer

Mathematics

• Chaitin's constant, or Halting Probability, written as Ω
• Lambert W function, also known as the omega function
• Omega constant, a specific value derived from the Lambert W function
• Omega language, a set of infinite-length sequences of symbols
• Wright Omega function, another function defined in terms of the Lambert W function
• ω, the smallest infinite ordinal number, also understood as the set of all natural numbers
• ω₁ or Ω, the smallest uncountable ordinal number, also understood as the set of all countable ordinal numbers
• ω(g(n)) and Ω(g(n)), asymptotic notations used to characterize function growth
• ω, the greatest lower bound for the exponent of the worst-case algorithmic complexity of matrix multiplication
• The omega and agemo subgroups of a p-group, Ω(G) and ℧(G)
• An artificial minimal element needed to make the set of terms a lattice, and to denote non-unifiability of terms
• The prime omega function ω where ω(n) is the number of distinct prime factors of an integer n
• The prime omega function Ω where Ω(n) is the total number of prime factors of an integer n

Organisations

• Omega 7, a Cuban anti-communist paramilitary group based in the United States
• Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, established 1977 at Rhinebeck, New York
• Omega Psi Phi, an African-American fraternity, founded in 1911

Philosophy

• Omega, a hypothetical superintelligent predictor in thought experiments such as Newcomb's problem
• Omega Point, an idea in eschatology advanced by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and physicist and mathematician Frank J. Tipler

Science

Astronomy

• Ω, one name for the density parameter; see ultimate fate of the universe
• Omega, the Bayer designation of multiple stars
• Omega Centauri, a globular cluster in the constellation of Centaurus
• Omega Nebula, a star cluster, Messier catalogue number 17

Orbital elements

• Argument of periapsis, abbreviated ω
• Longitude of the ascending node, abbreviated Ω

Other science

• Omega, "ω", in genetics, may refer to K_a/K_s ratio
• Omega, "ω", in physics, may refer to an object's angular frequency or angular velocity
• Omega, in sociobiology, the lowest rank in a dominance hierarchy
• Omega, a unit measuring the global mean saturation state of aragonite in surface seawater
• Omega-3 fatty acid
• Omega-6 fatty acid
• Omega-9 fatty acid
• Omega block, a typical block pattern in meteorology
• Omega equation, in meteorology, the vertical velocity
• OMEGA laser, laser at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, New York
• Omega loop, a protein motif
• Omega particle, a sub-atomic particle
• OMEGA process, only MEG (monoethylene glycol) process, an industrial chemical process to produce ethylene glycol from ethylene
• Omega West Reactor, an experimental physics reactor located at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Ω, the symbol for ohm, the SI derived unit of electrical resistance

Special Forces

• OMEGA (counterterrorism unit), a Latvian special operations unit
• Joint Task Force OMEGA, a special operations task force of the Colombian military
• Omega Special Task Force, a Georgian counter terrorism unit

Sports

• OMEGA Championship Wrestling (OMEGA), a wrestling promotion owned by Matt and Jeff Hardy
• Omega chess, a chess variant

Other uses

• Omega (bargque), the world's last cargo-carrying square-rigger sailing ship, sunk in 1958 off Peru
• Omega (grape), another name for the Catawba grape
• Omega chain, a type of collier
• OMEGA Memorandum, a 1956 State Dept memorandum designed to marginalize Gamal Abdel Nasser

See also

• Alpha and Omega (disambiguation)
• Iomega, a brand of storage media

• All pages with titles beginning with Omega
• All pages with titles containing Omega