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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD KAPPA

Greek, of Semitic origin.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF KAPPA

kappa  [ˈkæpə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KAPPA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Kappa is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES KAPPA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Kappa

Kappa is the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet, used to represent the /k/ sound in Ancient and Modern Greek. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 20. It was derived from the Phoenician letter kaph. Letters that arose from kappa include the Roman K and Cyrillic К. Greek proper names and placenames containing kappa are often written in English with "c" due to their transliteration into the Latin alphabet by ancient Romans. However, transliterations of the modern Greek language invariably use the letter "k". Compare Κυνοσκεφαλαι, Cynoscephalae; κυνος κεφαλαι, kunos kephalai, meaning "dog's heads". In mathematics, the kappa curve is named after this letter; the tangents of this curve were first calculated by Barrow.

Definition of kappa in the English dictionary

The definition of kappa in the dictionary is the tenth letter in the Greek alphabet, a consonant, transliterated as c or k.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH KAPPA


Capa
ˈkæpə
capper
ˈkæpə
catnapper
ˈkætˌnæpə
clapper
ˈklæpə
dapper
ˈdæpə
flapper
ˈflæpə
grappa
ˈɡræpə
handicapper
ˈhændɪˌkæpə
kidnapper
ˈkɪdnæpə
knapper
ˈnæpə
mapper
ˈmæpə
napa
ˈnæpə
nappa
ˈnæpə
rapper
ˈræpə
snapper
ˈsnæpə
tapper
ˈtæpə
trapper
ˈtræpə
wrapper
ˈræpə
Zappa
ˈzæpə
zapper
ˈzæpə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KAPPA

kapa
kapa haka
kapellmeister
Kapfenberg
kaph
Kapil Dev
Kapitza
kapok
kapok tree
Kaposi´s sarcoma
kapuka
kaput
Kara
Kara Kum
Kara Sea
Kara-Kalpak
Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Republic
Kara-Kalpakia
Kara-Kalpakstan
karabiner

WORDS THAT END LIKE KAPPA

Agrippa
culpa
cuppa
Europa
grandpa
Harappa
Joppa
kippa
koppa
pa
papa
Phi Beta Kappa
pipa
poppa
spa
Tampa
tapa
tepa
vespa
zoppa

Synonyms and antonyms of kappa in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «kappa» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KAPPA

Find out the translation of kappa to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of kappa from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «kappa» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

卡伯
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

kappa
570 millions of speakers

English

kappa
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कापा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كابا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

каппа
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

kappa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কাপ্পা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

kappa
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kappa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kappa
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

カッパ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

카파
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kappa
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chừ k của hy lạp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கப்பாத்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कप्पा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kappa
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cappa
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kappa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

каппа
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

kappa
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

κάπα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kappa
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kappa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kappa
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of kappa

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KAPPA»

The term «kappa» is very widely used and occupies the 16.763 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «KAPPA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about kappa

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KAPPA»

Discover the use of kappa in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to kappa and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Disciplining Women: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Black Counterpublics, ...
An interdisciplinary look Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), the first historically Black sorority.
Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, 2010
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Kappa; a novel
This novel, set in Kappaland and peopled with a creature from Japanese folklore--a scaly, child-size being with a face like a tiger and a sharply pointed beak--is a brilliant, entertaining satire of Japanese life and customs.
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, 1971
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Caduceus of Kappa Sigma
(News of the entrance of Kappa Alpha into the University of Louisville reached us too late for a line to be added in the table on following pages.) Twenty-two institutions have chapters of but one of what we shall define as general fraternities.
‎1921
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The Kappa child
"James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award for Science Fiction and Commonwealth Writers' Prize Winner, 2001 Sunburst Award Nomination for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, 2002" From the award-winning author of "Chorus of Mushrooms," which won ...
Hiromi Goto, 2001
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Biostatistics: The Bare Essentials
TABLE 22-6 Saintly Quadratic weights for rater agreement t°It is also a general, although counterintuitive, finding that increasing the number of boxes on the scale will improve reliability, as assessed by weighted kappa or an ICC correlation, ...
Geoffrey R. Norman, David L. Streiner, 2008
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Experience and Education
Many pages of this volume illustrate Dr Dewey's ideas for a philosophy of experience and its relation to education.
John Dewey, 1998
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Black Greek 101: The Culture, Customs, and Challenges of ...
The student newspaper had changed somewhat by that time, and complained about the mistreatment of the player. In the previous year, 1903, the Alpha Kappa Nu Greek society was formed. The existence of this organization is documented in ...
Walter M. Kimbrough, 2003
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Handbook of Research Methods in Public Administration, ...
calculating the SE of kappa is complicated and beyond the scope of this chapter. However, SPSS can calculate kappa, the standard error of kappa, and test its significance by using the SPSS manual options in the following sequence: ...
Gerald J. Miller, Kaifeng Yang, 2007
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Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Preventive Medicine
The method used to calculate the expected agreement for the kappa test is the same method used for the chi-square test (see Chapter 11). For a given cell—for example, cell a—the cell's row total is multiplied by the cell's column total, and the  ...
‎2007
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Bound by a Mighty Vow: Sisterhood and Women's Fraternities, ...
Editorial, Kappa Alpha Theta 26 (March 1912): 257; Kappa Alpha Theta Bi- Monthly 5 (September 1914). 82. Mary W. Lippincott, “Chapter Policy,” Kappa Alpha Theta 20 (May 1906): 261–262; Editorial, Kappa Alpha Theta 16 (May 1902): 268.
Diana B. Turk, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KAPPA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term kappa is used in the context of the following news items.
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Milthorpe initiated into Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society | Auburn Journal
Patricia Milthorpe of Auburn was recently initiated at California State University, Sacramento into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the ... «Auburn Journal, Jul 15»
2
Kappa Chow 42 Jane Street, Guelph ON, July 15
Kappa! Chow!" The next time Guelph hears that chant screamed at it ... Kappa Chow offered a blistering, no-frills set that stripped punk back to ... «Exclaim!, Jul 15»
3
Aquino, of Vernon, inducted into Phi Zeta Kappa honor society at FDU
MADISON – Highland Lakes, N.J. resident, Emily Aquino, a student at Fairleigh Dickinson University's Metropolitan Campus in Teaneck, N.J., ... «NorthJersey.com, Jul 15»
4
Kappa Sigma house
... alumni photos. A set of alumni photos lay ruined on the Kappa Sigma house basement floor. ... Photographs of Kappa Sigma alumni litter the basement floor. «Washburn Review, Jul 15»
5
Stephanie Lane McCracken Awarded Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship
McCracken is among 57 students nationwide to receive a Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship. Since its creation in 1932, the Fellowship program has ... «Mississippi News Now, Jul 15»
6
China Dongxiang Q2 Kappa Brand Same-store Sales Rise 21.5 …
Ltd., ( CDGXF ) reported a 21.5 percent year-on-year growth in the Kappa brand's same-store sales in China for the second quarter of 2015. «Nasdaq, Jul 15»
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Current and former Kappa Sigma fraternity members react to house …
Current Kappa Sigma members and alumni gathered on July 13 at the soon-to-be-demolished Kappa Sigma house located on Washburn's ... «Washburn Review, Jul 15»
8
State President Visits Alpha Delta Kappa Chapter
West Virginia Phi Chapter of Alpha Delta Kappa had a visit from West Virginia State President Karen Alexander and State Chaplain Anita ... «The Inter-Mountain, Jul 15»
9
Lincoln woman's article published in Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin
The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International Editorial Board has announced the publication of an article by Dr. Jennifer L. Fundus, a Lincoln ... «Lincoln Journal Star, Jul 15»
10
IN THE CLASSROOM - Phi Kappa Phi
IN THE CLASSROOM - Phi Kappa Phi ... Christian Blunk, Ottawa, was inducted into the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi at Coe College in Cedar ... «The Times, Jul 15»

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