Definition of "sigma"

• noun

• The name for the eighteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek, the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient.

• The symbol Σ, used to indicate summation of a set or series.

• The symbol σ, used to indicate one standard deviation from the mean, particularly in a normal distribution.



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