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Beta

Beta can stand for:

• Β or β the 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet. See Beta (letter). Beta should not be confused with a similar-looking but unrelated letter in German language orthography, ß, which denotes a long "s" sound.
• The plant genus Beta, the beets, in the family Chenopodiaceae (or, in more recent classifications, Amaranthaceae).

• The International Phonetic Alphabet symbol for the voiced bilabial fricative
• In software development, a "beta version" of a product is one that is still in development but is published for testing purpose. See development stage.
• BETA is an object-oriented programming language.
• The Beta programming language was used with the early cryptanalytic computer Harvest.
• In video tape technology, Beta is an abbreviation for Betamax.
• In climbing, a slang term for information about the moves needed to do a specific climb: see on-sight climbing.
• In investment, beta is a measure of volatility or level of risk against a benchmark, which can be the market or industry as a whole. It is calculated over a period of months. A value greater than one indicates that the object tends to change at a greater magnitude, whatever the direction.
• In nuclear physics, beta decay is a type of radioactive decay in which a beta particle is emitted.

• Beta is an Indian film from 1992 starring Madhuri Dixit;
• Beta is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer.

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