Adjective beta has 2 senses
- beta - second in order of importance; "the candidate, considered a beta male, was perceived to be unable to lead his party to victory"
Antonym: unimportant (indirect, via important)
- beta - preliminary or testing stage of a software or hardware product; "a beta version"; "beta software"
Antonyms: nonexploratory, nonexplorative, unexploratory, unexplorative (indirect, via exploratory)
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Noun beta has 2 senses
- beta - the 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet
--1 is a kind of letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character
--1 is a member of Greek alphabet
- Beta, genus Beta - beets
--2 is a kind of caryophylloid dicot genus; Chenopodiaceae, family Chenopodiaceae, goosefoot family
--2 has members: beet, common beet, Beta vulgaris
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