Citations:epsila

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English citations of epsila

  • 1829, Juan Bautista de Erro y Azpiroz (author), George William Erving (translator), The Alphabet of the Primitive Language of Spain, page 29
    The Greeks substituted the psi, for the tsi, and so made of the basque etsila, epsila, or epsilon, by means of the Greek termination on.*
    * The author here observes in a note, that the name of this letter, more changed than any other in the alphabet by the Greek inflexion, may also have been derived from the primitive Aitz-ila, which the Greeks read Etz-ila, and which signifies letter quite dead — that is, very weak letter. Be this as it may, the signification is the same, and explains that which nature gave to its modulation in the composition of the language.
  • 1996, Gunnar Eliasson, Firm Objectives, Controls and Organization: The Use of Information and the Transfer of Knowledge Within the Firm (Springer, →ISBN, page 86
    The task is to establish a relation between the competence rents (= epsila), firm total productivity change (DTFP) and growth in output (DQ).