beta
The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase.
Other meanings
Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices.
The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing.
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This definition is adapted from “beta” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.