Beta 3066569 225969497 2008-07-16T07:05:24Z Epingchris 785522 merged two descriptions of betaware into one {{wiktionarypar|beta|Beta}} '''Beta''' may refer to: *[[Beta (letter)|Beta]] (β), the second letter of the Greek alphabet In '''finance''': * [[Beta coefficient]] in [[Capital Asset Pricing Model]] In '''mathematics''': * [[Beta function]] in mathematics * [[Beta distribution]] in statistics * [[Type_I_and_type_II_errors#False_negative_rate]] in statistics * [[Standardized coefficient]] in statistics, also sometimes known as beta coefficient In '''physics''': * [[Beta (velocity)]] in special relativity * [[Beta (plasma physics)]], a plasma's ratio of thermal to magnetic pressure * [[Beta-function]] in quantum field theory * [[Beta particle]] in subatomic physics * [[Thermodynamic beta]] in thermodynamics/statistical mechanics * [[Compressibility]] or β, a measure of the relative volume change of a fluid or solid as a response to a pressure change In '''life sciences''': * [[Beta (plant)]], a genus of flowering plants, the "beets" * [[Beta (biology)]], a rank in a community of social animals * [[Beta-endorphin]] * [[Beta movement]] in visual psychology * [[Beta carbon]] in organic chemistry * [[Beta cell]] in anatomy that produces insulin * [[Beta sheet]], a secondary protein structure. In '''technology''': * [[BETA]] programming language * [[Beta (time signal)]] * [[Beta (motorcycle manufacturer)]], an Italian off-road motorcycle manufacture * [[Lancia Beta]], a car or vehicle * [[Betamax]] or [[Betacam]], videotape formats * [[Software release life cycle#Beta|Betaware]], software released to a limited amount of users for testing before official release. * Transistor "beta", is current gain of a [[Bipolar junction transistor#Transistor 'alpha' and 'beta'|bipolar junction transistor]] * Beta angle, the angle between the orbital plane and a line drawn from the Sun to the Earth.[http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/feedback/expert/answer/mcc/sts-113/11_23_20_01_179.html] In '''media''': * [[Beta (film)|''Beta'' (film)]], 1992 Bollywood film directed by Indra Kumar * ''[[Beta (Magic: The Gathering)]]'' a card game set * [[B3ta]], a British humour webcommunity * [[Beta reader]], a person who assists in the production of fiction * [[Beta Recordings]], a record label * Beta, a caste in Aldous Huxley's [[Brave New World#Fordism and Society|''Brave New World'']] * BETA, an organization in the 1986 TV series ''[[The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers#BETA|The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers]]'' * In the [[Earthbound (series)|Earthbound]], or Mother, series of [[Nintendo]] [[RPG]] games by [[Shigesato Itoi]], β (along with other Greek letters) is used as a classification of the strength of a PSI technique. In '''geography''': * [[Beta, Harghita]], a village in the commune of [[Mugeni]], Harghita County, Romania In '''computer science''' *[[lambda calculus#β-reduction|beta reduction]] a reduction rule for lambda calculus ( see also [[Beta normal form]] ) In '''other uses''': * [[Beta (climbing)]], route guidance for rock climbers * [[Hurricane Beta (2005)]] * [[National Beta Club]], a high school honor society * [[Voiced bilabial fricative]] in the International Phonetic Alphabet * [[Socionics#Quadras|Beta quadra]], in Socionics * [[Beta coefficient]], in Finance ==People with the given or family name Beta== * Beta Mechazawa, a character from [[Cromartie High School]] ==See also== * [[ß]], a German letter that resembles β * ''[[Betta]]'', a genus of fish, often misspelled ''Beta'' * [[Beta Theta Pi]] fraternity, nicknamed "Beta" {{disambig}} [[bg:Бета]] [[ca:Beta (desambiguació)]] [[da:Beta (flertydig)]] [[de:Beta (Begriffsklärung)]] [[es:Beta (desambiguación)]] [[eo:Beta]] [[eu:Beta]] [[ko:베타]] [[hr:Beta]] [[id:Beta]] [[it:Beta]] [[he:בטא (פירושונים)]] [[nl:Beta]] [[ja:ベータ]] [[no:Beta (andre betydninger)]] [[pt:Beta]] [[ru:Бета]] [[simple:Beta]] [[sk:Beta]] [[sr:Бета]] [[fi:Beta]] [[sv:Beta (olika betydelser)]] [[tr:Beta]]