"rho" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɹəʊ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ɹoʊ/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-rho.ogg [US] Forms: rhos [plural]
Rhymes: -əʊ Etymology: From the name of the Ancient Greek letter ῥῶ (rhô). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|grc|-}} Ancient Greek, {{m|grc|ῥῶ}} ῥῶ (rhô) Head templates: {{en-noun}} rho (plural rhos)
  1. The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient. Categories (topical): Greek letter names Translations (letter of Greek alphabet): ῥῶ (rhô) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), رُو (rū) [masculine] (Arabic), ro [feminine] (Catalan), (ròu) (Chinese Mandarin), (ruò) (Chinese Mandarin), (róu) (Chinese Mandarin), rho [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), roto (Esperanto), rhoo (Finnish), rhô [masculine] (French), Rho [neuter] (German), ρο (ro) [neuter] (Greek), רוֹ (ro) [feminine] (Hebrew), (Hungarian), rho (Interlingua), [masculine] (Irish), ロー () (Japanese), (ro) (Korean), rhō [neuter] (Latin), ro (Malay), rōu (Maori), rho [neuter] (Polish), ro [neuter] (Polish), [masculine] (Portuguese), ró [masculine] (Portuguese), ро (ro) [neuter] (Russian), ro [feminine] (Spanish), rho [feminine] (Spanish), rho (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-rho-en-noun--Aod55HO Disambiguation of Greek letter names: 74 26 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 63 37 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 78 22 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 62 38 Disambiguation of 'letter of Greek alphabet': 83 17
  2. (finance) The sensitivity of the option value to the risk-free interest rate. Categories (topical): Finance Hypernyms (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (english: includes list of coordinate terms)
    Sense id: en-rho-en-noun-ysI~iV3g Topics: business, finance Disambiguation of 'measure of derivative price sensitivity': 19 81
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: chi-rho, Pollard's rho algorithm, Rho factor, rho meson, rhotic, Spearman's rho

Inflected forms

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    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "letter of Greek alphabet",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rho"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "letter of Greek alphabet",
      "word": "rho"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rho"
}

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