Ny

Ny

pronunciation

antique

[ n ]

modern

[ n ]

Equivalents

Latin

N

Cyrillic

Н

Hebrew

נ

Arabic

ﻥ

Phoenician

?

transcription

From the ancient world

n

From the modern

n

Coding
Capitals
Unicode number	U + 039D
Unicode name	GREEK CAPITAL LETTER NU
HTML	& # 925;
HTML entity	& Nu;
Minuscule
Unicode number	U + 03BD
Unicode name	GREEK SMALL LETTER NU
HTML	& # 957;
HTML entity	& nu;

The Ny [ NY ] ( Greek neuter νῦ ; neugriechisches neuter Νι , today's debate Ni ; Majuskel Ν, minuscule ν) is the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet and has after the Milesian system the numerical value of the 50th

At the end of some ancient Greek words there is an optional ending Ny (-ν), the movable Ny or Ny ephelkystikon (Greek: νῦ ἐφελκυστικόν). It is used at the end of a sentence or to avoid a hiiat .

Examples of the Ny ephelkystikon are:

παιδεύουσι (ν) paideuousi (n) (3rd person pl. pres. act. / date pl. part. pres. act.)

γένεσι (ν) genesi (n) ( Dat.Plur . v. γένος genos )

use

The lowercase letter ν is used as a symbol

in physics
- for the frequency of waves
- a neutrino
- the polytropic ratio of a polytropic change of state
- the kinematic viscosity
- for the Poisson's number
in chemistry
- the stoichiometric number
in math
- the multiplicities of the prime divisors of a natural number : One likes to split a natural number into a product . For each prime number , it indicates how often it appears in the prime factor representation of this number. ${\ displaystyle n}$ ${\ displaystyle n = \ prod _ {i = 1} ^ {m} p_ {i} ^ {\ nu _ {i}}}$ ${\ displaystyle p_ {i}}$ ${\ displaystyle \ nu _ {i}}$
- in financial mathematics as Vega in the Black-Scholes model
in microbiology
- the number of divisions of a microorganism per period

Origin and derivatives

The Ny developed from the Phoenician letter Nun .

Both the Latin letter N and the Cyrillic letter Н are derived from the Greek Ny .

Web links

Wiktionary: Ny - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations