What is the meaning of s?
See contraction. a contraction of as, as in so's to get there on time. the 19th letter of the English alphabet, a consonant. any spoken sound represented by the letter S or s, as in saw, sense, or goose. a written or printed representation of the letter S or s. a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter S or s. satisfactory. Saxon.
What is s in typography?
any spoken sound represented by the letter S or s, as in saw, sense, or goose. a written or printed representation of the letter S or s. a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter S or s.
What is a medical word that starts with s?
20-letter words that start with s. semiautobiographical. saccharogalactorrhea. scleroconjunctivitis. scinticisternography. sulfachlorpyridazine. supervascularization. suprapharmacological.
What does ẞ ß mean?
ẞ ß : German Eszett or "sharp S", derived from a ligature of long s followed by either s or z ₛ : Subscript small s was used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet prior to its formal standardization in 1902 ꜱ : Small capital S was used in the Icelandic First Grammatical Treatise to mark gemination
History
Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative /ʃ/ (as in ' sh ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth ( שנא) and represented the phoneme /ʃ/ via the acrophonic principle.
Use in writing systems
The letter ⟨s⟩ is the seventh most common letter in English and the third-most common consonant after ⟨t⟩ and ⟨n⟩. It is the most common letter for the first letter of a word in the English language.
History
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Environment
According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the West Palm Beach Canal (C-51)/Stormwater Treatment Area (STA)1 East project was authorized by the U.S. Congress under the Flood Control Acts of 1948, 1954, 1962, 1968, and the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 1996.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, this city has a total area of 58.2 square miles (151 km 2 ), of which 55.1 square miles (143 km 2) is land and 3.1 square miles (8.0 km 2) (5.26%) is water.
Government and infrastructure
West Palm Beach is governed via the Mayor-council system. The mayor is elected in a citywide vote. The five members of the city council are each elected from districts.
Education
K–12 public education is administrated by the School District of Palm Beach County, which is the tenth-largest school district in the United States by enrollment.
Economy
Companies based in West Palm Beach include Affiliated Managers Group, Florida Public Utilities, ION Media Networks, Ocwen, and The Palm Beach Post. Other major employers are Pratt & Whitney, Aerojet Rocketdyne, Sikorsky Aircraft, General Dynamics, Cemex, and CSC.
Arts and culture
Norton Museum of Art: is the largest art museum in Florida and also organizes traveling exhibits. The permanent collection features 19th and 20th century European and American art, Chinese, contemporary art and photography.
Overview
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its name in English is ess , plural esses.
History
Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative /ʃ/ (as in 'ship'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth (שנא) and represented the phoneme /ʃ/ via the acrophonic principle.
Ancient Greek did not have a /ʃ/ phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma (Σ) came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant /s/. While the letter shape Σ co…
Use in writing systems
The letter ⟨s⟩ is the seventh most common letter in English and the third-most common consonant after ⟨t⟩ and ⟨n⟩. It is the most common letter for the first letter of a word in the English language.
In English and several other languages, primarily Western Romance ones like Spanish and French, final ⟨s⟩ is the usual mark of plural nouns. It is the regular ending of English third person present tense verbs.
Related characters
• ſ : Latin letter long s, an obsolete variant of s
• ẜ ẝ : Various forms of long s were used for medieval scribal abbreviations
• ẞ ß : German Eszett or "sharp S", derived from a ligature of long s followed by either s or z
Chemistry
The letter S is used:
• In a chemical formula to represent sulfur. For example, SO 2 is sulfur dioxide.
• In the preferred IUPAC name for a chemical, to indicate a specific enantiomer. For example, "(S)-2-(4-Chloro-2-methylphenoxy)propanoic acid" is one of the enantiomers of mecoprop.
See also
• Cool S
• See about Ⓢ in Enclosed Alphanumerics
External links
• Media related to S at Wikimedia Commons
• The dictionary definition of S at Wiktionary
• The dictionary definition of s at Wiktionary
• "S" . The New Student's Reference Work . 1914.