Vega
name, noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 An automobile that was manufactured by Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors Corporation from 1970 to 1977. historical
- 2 An open tract of ground; a plain, especially one which is moist and fertile, such as those used for growing tobacco. Latin-America, Philippines
- 3 A measurement of the sensitivity of the value of an option to changes in the implied volatility of the price of the underlying asset. countable, uncountable
- 1 The brightest star in the constellation Lyra; Alpha (α) Lyrae. It forms one corner of the Summer Triangle.
- 2 A surname from Spanish. countable, uncountable
- 3 A small city, the county seat of Oldham County, Texas, United States. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"It is now the 7th of July of 2014. I celebrate Tanabata, the Japanese Star Festival, by watching the stars at night, on the balcony. My iPad mini's astronomy apps really help peer through the clouds. The ancient legend is about the stars Vega and Altair."
Etymology
From Medieval Latin, from Arabic وَاقِع (wāqiʕ, “falling”), from the expression النَّسْر الوَاقِع (an-nasr al-wāqiʕ, “falling eagle”). The active participle وَاقِع (wāqiʕ) derives from the verb وَقَعَ (waqaʕa, “fall, drop, tumble, alight, pounce”).
From Spanish vega (“meadow, fertile lowland”).
From Spanish vega.
An invented word perhaps chosen to begin with "v" (for "volatility") and to sound as if it could be a Greek letter (like the related parameters "delta", "gamma" etc.)
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