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OMEGA laser
The OMEGA laser is a 60-beam inertial confinement fusion research laser at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics, first fired in 1995, that implodes fusion fuel capsules by direct drive.
OMEGA laser facility
The OMEGA laser facility is an inertial confinement fusion research complex at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, built around the OMEGA-60 and OMEGA EP laser systems.
Omega Orionis
Omega Orionis is a rapidly rotating classical Be star in Orion about 1,382 light-years away, known for its circumstellar disk and for a suggested magnetic field never directly detected.
Omega Park
Omega Park (Parc Oméga) is a 2,200-acre drive-through wildlife park in Montebello, Quebec, opened in 1991, with a 12-km car safari, about 20 species, wolf lodges, and CAZA and AZA accreditation.
Omega Point
The Omega Point, or Omega Point Theory, is Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's term for the final convergence of cosmic evolution, later recast by physicist Frank Tipler.
Omega Psi Phi
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., a historically Black fraternity and Divine Nine member founded November 17, 1911 at Howard University by Love, Cooper, Coleman, and Just, with motto 'friendship is essential to the soul.'
Omega Red
Omega Red (Arkady Gregorivich Rossovich), Marvel X-Men supervillain created by John Byrne and Jim Lee, debuting in X-Men (1991) #4; a Soviet super-soldier with carbonadium tentacles, death spores, and a life-force drain needed to survive his implants' poison.
Omega SA
Omega SA, also known as Omega Watches, is a Swiss luxury watchmaker founded by Louis Brandt in 1848 and based in Biel/Bienne, known for the Speedmaster, worn on the Moon.
Omega Scorpii
Omega Scorpii is a pair of naked-eye stars in Scorpius, a hot blue-white star and a yellow giant that appear close but lie 470 and 290 light-years away.
Omega Seamaster
The Omega Seamaster is a family of watches produced by the Swiss watchmaker Omega since 1948, spanning everyday and divers' models, and worn by James Bond in every 007 film since 1995.
Omega Speedmaster
The Omega Speedmaster, also known as the Speedmaster Professional, is a Swiss chronograph wristwatch made by Omega since 1957 that NASA flight-qualified in 1965 and that was worn on the Moon.
Omega Venture Partners
Omega Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, led by Managing Partner Gaurav Tewari, which invests in fast-growing AI-enabled companies that solve high-value business problems.
OMEGA X
OMEGA X (오메가엑스) is an 11-member South Korean boy band formed by SPIRE Entertainment from members of disbanded idol groups, which debuted in 2021 with the EP Vamos.
Omega-3-enriched structured triglycerides from fish oil
Omega-3-enriched structured triglycerides from fish oil are interesterified fish-oil fats enriched in EPA and DHA; exemplified by GRN 200 N3-TG-3020, FDA no-questions 2006, 3 g/day EPA+DHA ceiling.
Omega-Atracotoxin
Omega-atracotoxin (ω-ACTX), insect-selective 36–37-residue cystine-knot peptides from Australian funnel-web spider venom (Atrax, Hadronyche) that block insect voltage-gated calcium channels as pore blockers while sparing vertebrate channels; biopesticide leads.
omega-conotoxin GVIA
omega-Conotoxin GVIA is a 27-amino-acid peptide from the venom of the cone snail Conus geographus that blocks N-type calcium channels and has served since the mid-1980s as the standard pharmacological probe for identifying those channels.
Omega-level mutants
Omega-level mutants are Marvel Comics' highest mutant power classification, defined in House of X #1 (2019) as a dominant power with an undefinable upper limit; the issue listed 14 known omega-level mutants including Jean Grey, Magneto, Storm, and Iceman.
omega.x haptic devices
omega.x is the shared base design of Force Dimension's omega.3, omega.6, and omega.7 desktop haptic devices, which render contact forces at rates up to 4 kHz.
Omega−3 fatty acid
Omega-3 fatty acids (ALA, EPA, DHA) are essential polyunsaturated fats, discovered as essential nutrients by the Burrs in 1929; ALA comes from plant oils while EPA and DHA come from seafood, with limited human conversion of ALA to the longer-chain forms.
Omegaball
Omegaball: three-team soccer variant created by Anthony Dittmann in the US (first played 2020), three teams of five, three goals, circular pitch, no offside, three 13-minute periods.
OmegaPRM
OmegaPRM is a divide-and-conquer Monte Carlo tree search algorithm introduced by Google DeepMind researchers in June 2024 to label the first error in a chain of thought for training process reward models.
Omegaverse
Omegaverse, also called A/B/O or Alpha/Beta/Omega, is a speculative erotic fiction subgenre from Supernatural fandom (2010) built on alpha/beta/omega hierarchies, heats, knotting, and pheromones, now spanning manga, publishing, and live action.
Omegle
Omegle was a free online chat website, active from 2009 to 2023, that anonymously paired two random users in text or video chat with no accounts or profiles.
Omelette
Omelette (French omelette; Spanish tortilla de patatas; Japanese tamagoyaki): a dish of beaten eggs cooked in a pan, often folded around fillings; word from Latin lamella, English from the 1610s, earliest recipes in Le Ménagier de Paris.
Omelette (The Bear)
"Omelette" is Season 2, Episode 9 of The Bear, written by Joanna Calo, in which Sydney makes a Boursin, chive, and potato-chip omelette for pregnant Natalie; the quiet scene went viral and was widely imitated.
Omelette dress
The omelette dress, also called the Yellow Queen, is a canary-yellow fur-trimmed cape designed by Guo Pei and worn by Rihanna at the 2015 Met Gala.
Omeljan Pritsak
Omeljan Pritsak (Ukrainian: Омелян Пріцак; 1919–2006) was a Ukrainian orientalist and historian of the Eurasian steppe who co-founded and led the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the Institute of Oriental Studies in Kyiv.
Omen
Omen: a perceived sign, event, or phenomenon interpreted as predicting the future, also called augury. Distinct from an oracle; documented from 3rd-millennium BC Mesopotamian hepatoscopy to modern belief.
Omen (group)
Omen is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1983 by guitarist Kenny Powell, known for melodic power metal albums like Battle Cry (1984).
Omen IV: The Awakening
Omen IV: The Awakening is a 1991 made-for-TV horror film, the fourth Omen movie, directed by Jorge Montesi and Dominique Othenin-Girard, in which attorneys adopt Delia, Damien Thorn's daughter and the new Antichrist.