Rho
noun1
Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Microbiology, Natural sciences, Physical sciences Any of a family of GTP-binding proteins
rho
nounalso spelled RhoUK /ɹəʊ/ · US /ɹoʊ/
Etymology From the name of the Ancient Greek letter ῥῶ (rhô).
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The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient.
- Greek was an exercise in making the familiar strange. Its alphabet mapped onto the Roman alphabet, but only partly so, and often letters did not sound how they looked – a rho (Ρ) was not a P, and an eta (Η) was not an H.2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 25:
- Derived terms
- chi-rho, Pollard's rho algorithm, Rho factor, rho meson, rhotic, Spearman's rho
- Hypernyms
- Greeks