The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet. / A jot; a very small, insignificant quantity.

plural of iota

(finance) A bank account that earns interest and pays it to a third party, generally a charity; the principal is typically being held in escrow by the accountholder.

plural of IOTA

(Greek orthography) A small iota written below an alpha, eta or omega – e.g. in ᾠδή (ōidḗ) – representing a vocalic offglide that was pronounced in early Ancient Greek, but later became silent; invented in the Middle Ages in order to mark those vowels which would originally have had such an offglide.

plural of iota subscript

The B.1.526 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.

plural of iotacism

plural of iotation

(linguistics) A specific occurrence of palatalization that occurred in the Proto-Slavic language, in which a consonant combined with the palatal approximant /j/ to form a palatalized consonant.