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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
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 class destroyer", a fictional Earth starship from the Babylon 5 science-fiction series
- "Omega Flowey" is the second-final or final boss of the 2016 game Undertale, depending on the player's choices in the game.
- Omega Metroids, the final evolution of the normal Metroid cycle from the game Metroid II: Return of Samus and it's remake Metroid: Samus Returns. Also present in Metroid Fusion.
- 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
- Omega Recording Studios, a recording school and studio located outside of Washington D.C.
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
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
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
- Opel Omega, a car model by Opel/Vauxhall
- Oldsmobile Omega, a car model by General Motors
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
- Pennellificio Omega SpA (stylized as Ω Omega), an Italian manufacturer of shaving brushes and paintbrushes
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
- 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 function ω where ω(n) is the number of distinct prime factors of an integer n
- the 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 Ka/Ks 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
Special Forces
- OMEGA (counterterrorism unit), a Latvian special operations unit
- Omega Special Task Force, a Georgian counter terrorism unit
- Joint Task Force OMEGA, a special operations task force of the Colombian military
Sports
- Omega chess, a chess variant
- OMEGA Championship Wrestling (OMEGA), a wrestling promotion owned by Matt and Jeff Hardy
Technology
- Omega2 (computer), a single-board small form-factor computer
- Omega (TeX), a Unicode extension of the TeX 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
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 Development Site, planned to be one of Europe's largest business parks, in Warrington, Cheshire
- OMEGA Memorandum, a 1956 State Dept memorandum designed to marginalize Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Omega chain, a type of collier
See also
- Alpha and Omega (disambiguation)
- Iomega, a brand of storage media
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