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"sense": "name for the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "э́псилон"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "name for the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "épsilon"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "name for the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet",
"word": "epsilon"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "name for the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet",
"word": "epsilon"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "ép-sai-lɔ̂n",
"sense": "name for the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet",
"word": "เอปไซลอน"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "name for the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet",
"word": "epsilon"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "symbol for front half open unrounded vowel",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "epsilon"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "épsilon",
"sense": "symbol for front half open unrounded vowel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "э́псилон"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "arbitrarily small quantity",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "epsilon"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "arbitrarily small quantity",
"word": "epsilon"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "épsilon",
"sense": "arbitrarily small quantity",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "э́псилон"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "negligible effect",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kleinigheid"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "negligible effect",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "błahostka"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"epsilon"
],
"word": "epsilon"
}
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