Beta

n.

1.

(Astron.) The second letter of the Greek alphabet, B, B, and cf. etymology of Alphabet.

Noun	1.	beta - the 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet
	2.	Beta - beets Synonyms: genus Beta
Adj.	1.	beta - second in order of importance; "the candidate, considered a beta male, was perceived to be unable to lead his party to victory"
	2.	beta - preliminary or testing stage of a software or hardware product; "a beta version"; "beta software"

1.		BETA - Kristensen, Madsen , Moller-Pedersen & Nygaard, 1983. Object-oriented language with block structure, coroutines, concurrency, strong typing, part objects, separate objects and classless objects. Central feature is a single abstraction mechanism called "patterns", a generalisation of classes, providing instantiation and hierarchical inheritance for all objects including procedures and processes. Mjolner Informatics ApS, Aarhus, implementations for Mac, Sun, HP, Apollo. E-mail: . Mailing list: . ["Object-Oriented Programming in the BETA Programming Language", Ole Lehrmann et al, A-W June 1993, ISBN 0-201-62430-3].
2.		beta - /bay't*/, /be't*/ or (Commonwealth) /bee't*/ See beta conversion, beta test.

important, of import