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Beta can have any of the following meanings:

Beta (Β β) is the 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet and has a numeric value of 2. Beta should not be confused with a similar-looking but unrelated letter in German language orthography, ß.
In software development, a "beta version" of a product is one that is still in development but is published for testing purpose. See development stage.
BETA is an object-oriented programming language.
Beta is an abbreviation for Betamax.

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