â diminutiveness. â Diminutives can be a shortened form of a name (such as âJenâ for âJenniferâ and âDickâ for âRichardâ) or a name with a diminutive suffix added to it (such as âBobbyâ for âBobâ).
In trigonometry, theta is a symbol commonly used to represent an unknown angle in the same way you might use x to label an unknown side or an unknown number in general. Theta â¦ looks like this: Î¸. 2 people found this useful.
Even the ubiquitous [math]\pi[/math] has meanings other than that of the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The... Theta is just a Greek letter used often with angles and with polar coordinates as a substitute variable, not unlike the fabled x in algebra. Neither theta nor x have any special meaning except with a particular context.