Associations to the word «S»

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Wiktionary

S, letter. The nineteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
S, symbol. (IPA) voiceless alveolar fricative
S, symbol. Symbol for second, an SI unit of measurement of time.
S, letter. The nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ess and written in the Latin script.
S, abbreviation. (metrology) abbreviation for the scruple (unit of mass in the apothecaries' system)
S, abbreviation. Alternative form of s.
Ş, letter. The letter s with a cedilla.
Ŝ, letter. The letter s with a circumflex.
Ș, letter. The letter s with a comma.
S, letter. The nineteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
S, symbol. (chemistry) symbol for sulfur / sulphur
S, symbol. (metrology) symbol for siemens, a measure of electrical conductance.
S, symbol. (metrology) symbol for spat (obsolete astronomical unit of distance).
S, symbol. (metrology) symbol for svedberg (unit of sedimentation rate in ultracentrifugation).
S, symbol. (amino acid) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for serine
S, symbol. (geology) symbol for storativity
S, symbol. (mathematics) (topology) sphere
S, symbol. (mathematics) (computer science) The S ("substitution") combinator, defined as Sxyz = xz(yz), used in SKI calculus
S, letter. The nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ess and written in the Latin script.
S, noun. American Library Association. Abbreviation for sextodecimo, a book size, 15-17.5 cm in height.
Ş, letter. The letter S with a cedilla.
S, letter. (rare) The long s, a form of the letter ess (S).
S, letter. (archaic) long s The nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, called long s, medial s or descending s and written in the Latin script.
Š, letter. The letter S with a háček.
Š, letter. The letter s with a háček.
S, letter. The letter S in fullwidth.
S, letter. The letter s in fullwidth.
Ṡ, letter. The letter S with a dot above.
Ṡ, letter. The letter s with a dot above.
Ṣ, letter. The letter S with a dot below.
Ṣ, letter. The letter s with a dot below.
Ṣ, symbol. Romanization of the Hebrew in the ISO 259 transliteration scheme
Ŝ, letter. The letter S with a circumflex.
Ś, letter. The letter S with an acute accent.
Ś, letter. The letter s with an acute accent.
S̺, symbol. (IPA) voiceless apical alveolar fricative
Ș, letter. The letter S with a comma.
S & L, abbreviation. Alternative spelling of S&L
S & M, abbreviation. Alternative spelling of S&M
S METER, noun. An indicator used to measure the strength of the radio signal, often provided on communications receivers.
S METERS, noun. Plural of S meter
S PLANE, noun. (mathematics) (engineering) The complex plane on which Laplace transforms are graphed; a mathematical domain where processes are viewed in the frequency domain rather than the time domain; used as a graphical analysis tool in engineering and physics.
S WAVE, noun. Alternative form of S-wave
S WAVES, noun. Plural of S wave

Dictionary definition

S, noun. 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites.
S, noun. An abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions).
S, noun. The cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees.
S, noun. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
S, noun. The 19th letter of the Roman alphabet.
S, noun. (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work; "entropy increases as matter and energy in the universe degrade to an ultimate state of inert uniformity".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats