Meaning & use
iota
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An extremely small amount; a tiny bit.
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There isn't an iota of truth in that rumor.
He didn't show an iota of remorse for what he'd done.
A note on using this word
Iota is the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet, the smallest in written form, which gave rise to its figurative sense of a minuscule quantity — also the source of the English word 'jot.'
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2. noun
The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet (Ι, ι).
The equation used iota to represent a small variable quantity.
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