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Noam D. Elkies
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French has an expression "c'est epsilon" meaning something like "it's negligible". French wiktionary says this sense is "par extension" from the mathematical usage.

There's also lambda "(Éthologie) Un membre considéré comme le plus ordinaire d’un ensemble", which might have a mathematical origin.

Noam D. Elkies
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