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Added 9 October 2026

s

/ɛs/ letter

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The nineteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

symbol

Second, the SI base unit for measurement of time.
A voiceless alveolar fricative.
[s]-fricated release, [s]-coloring, or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [s] – see ⟨ˢ⟩.
Sample standard deviation.

letter

The nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ess and written in the Latin script.

noun

Abbreviation of scruple, a unit of mass in the apothecaries' system.
Abbreviation of strange quark.
Alternative form of s..

Origin

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