(biology, medicine) Of or pertaining to related measurements or data from such interrelated fields as genomics, proteomics, transcriptomic or other fields. Many of these fields have a name that ends with the suffix -omics.

(chiefly biology) Forms nouns meaning “a study of the totality of something”.

(biology) Any of several biochemical or genetic subfields that aim to identify the totality of a certain type of biological molecule, such as genomics for genes or proteomics for proteins.

Alternative spelling of omics

(sometimes capitalized) The 15th letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets (16th in Ancient and Old Greek), used in ordering lists as in naming (astronomy) the 15th star of a constellation or (epidemiology) the 15th discovered major variant of a disease.

plural of omicron

plural of omicron; Alternative form of omicrons

The highly virulent B.1.1.529 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.

(virology, pathology, uncountable) Ellipsis of Omicron variant.

(countable) Alternative form of omicron (Greek letter) (especially in the majuscule form)