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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a tiny or scarcely detectable amount [syn: shred, scintilla, whit, iota, tittle, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, smidge]
2: the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Latin, from Greek i?ta, of Semitic origin; akin to Hebrew y?dh yod Date: 1542 1. the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet — see alphabet table 2. an infinitesimal amount ; jot <did not show an iota of interest>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet (I). 2 (usu. with neg.) the smallest possible amount. Etymology: Gk iota

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Iota I*o"ta, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?. See Jot.] 1. The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet ([iota]) corresponding with the English i. 2. A very small quantity or degree; a jot; a particle.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you say that there is not an iota or not one iota of something, you are emphasizing that there is not even a very small amount of it. He's never shown an iota of interest in any kind of work. = jot QUANT: with brd-neg, QUANT of n-uncount [emphasis] 2. You can use an iota or one iota to emphasize a negative statement. Not an iota or not one iota means not even to a small extent or degree. Our credit standards haven't changed one iota. = jot PHRASE: with brd-neg, PHR after v [emphasis]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Jot, whit, tittle, bit, grain, particle, atom, scrap, mite, scintilla, spark, glimmer, shadow, trace.

Moby Thesaurus

ace, atom, bit, crumb, dab, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, drop, droplet, dwarf, farthing, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gnat, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair, handful, jot, little, little bit, microbe, microorganism, midge, minim, minimum, minutia, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, nutshell, ounce, particle, pebble, pinch, pinhead, pinpoint, pittance, point, ray, scrap, scruple, smidgen, smitch, snip, snippet, speck, spoonful, spot, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount, trivia, vanishing point, whit