Definitions
preliminary or testing stage of a software or hardware product
Word origin
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βῆτᾰ (bêtă). Doublet of beth.
Used in a sentence
“But let me tell you happy extroverts that only Vera Telfer and H. A. C. Evans got even an alpha minus; only T. E. Hendrie got a beta plus […]”
“Mr Taylor would hardly give a beta minus to one of his history students […]”
“The English class was for me delightful. My essays, still written under the influence of Kubla Khan, nearly always got a beta plus.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Pre-release version”4 letters
02“Test version”4 letters
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