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vega

nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈviːɡə//
  • United States//ˈveɪɡə//
  • //ˈveɪɡə//

An open tract of ground; a plain, especially one which is moist and fertile, such as those used for growing tobacco.

noun

  1. 1

    An open tract of ground; a plain, especially one which is moist and fertile, such as those used for growing tobacco.

Etymology

From Spanish vega.

noun

  1. 1

    A measurement of the sensitivity of the value of an option to changes in the implied volatility of the price of the underlying asset.

Etymology

An invented word perhaps chosen to begin with "v" (for "volatility") and to sound as if it could be a Greek letter (like the related parameters "delta", "gamma" etc.)

Forms

plural
vegas
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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