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Noun

S: (n) second, sec, s (1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites)
S: (n) sulfur, S, sulphur, atomic number 16 (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: (n) south, due south, southward, S (the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees)

S: (n) mho, siemens, reciprocal ohm, S (a unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm)

direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term

S: (n) S, s (the 19th letter of the Roman alphabet)

member holonym
direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term

S: (n) letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character (the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech) "his grandmother taught him his letters"

S: (n) ascender (a lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters)
S: (n) descender (a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters)
S: (n) digraph, digram (two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: `sh' in `shoe'))
S: (n) initial (the first letter of a word (especially a person's name)) "he refused to put the initials FRS after his name"
S: (n) A, a (the 1st letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) B, b (the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) C, c (the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) D, d (the 4th letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) E, e (the 5th letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) F, f (the 6th letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) G, g (the 7th letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) H, h (the 8th letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) I, i (the 9th letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) J, j (the 10th letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) K, k (the 11th letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) L, l (the 12th letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) M, m (the 13th letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) N, n (the 14th letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) O, o (the 15th letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) P, p (the 16th letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) Q, q (the 17th letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) R, r (the 18th letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) S, s (the 19th letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) T, t (the 20th letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) U, u (the 21st letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) V, v (the 22nd letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) W, w, double-u (the 23rd letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) X, x, ex (the 24th letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) Y, y, wye (the 25th letter of the Roman alphabet)
S: (n) Z, z, zee, zed, ezed, izzard (the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet) "the British call Z zed and the Scots call it ezed but Americans call it zee"; "he doesn't know A from izzard"
S: (n) alpha (the 1st letter of the Greek alphabet)
S: (n) beta (the 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet)
S: (n) gamma (the 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet)
S: (n) delta (the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet)
S: (n) epsilon (the 5th letter of the Greek alphabet)
S: (n) zeta (the 6th letter of the Greek alphabet)
S: (n) eta (the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet)
S: (n) theta (the 8th letter of the Greek alphabet)
S: (n) iota (the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet)
S: (n) kappa (the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet)
S: (n) lambda (the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet)
S: (n) mu (the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet)
S: (n) nu (the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet)
S: (n) xi (the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet)
S: (n) omicron (the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet)
S: (n) pi (the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet)
S: (n) rho (the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet)
S: (n) sigma (the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet)
S: (n) tau (the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet)
S: (n) upsilon (the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet)
S: (n) phi (the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet)
S: (n) chi, khi (the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet)
S: (n) psi (the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet)
S: (n) omega (the last (24th) letter of the Greek alphabet)
S: (n) aleph (the 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet)
S: (n) beth (the 2nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet)
S: (n) gimel (the 3rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet)
S: (n) daleth (the 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet)
S: (n) he (the 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet)
S: (n) waw (the 6th letter of the Hebrew alphabet)
S: (n) zayin (the 7th letter of the Hebrew alphabet)
S: (n) heth (the 8th letter of the Hebrew alphabet)
S: (n) teth (the 9th letter of the Hebrew alphabet)
S: (n) yodh (the 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet)
S: (n) kaph (the 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet)
S: (n) lamedh (the 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet)
S: (n) mem (the 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet)
S: (n) nun (the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet)
S: (n) samekh (the 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet)
S: (n) ayin (the 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet)
S: (n) pe (the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet)
S: (n) sadhe (the 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet)
S: (n) qoph (the 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet)
S: (n) resh (the 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet)
S: (n) sin (the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet)
S: (n) shin (the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet)
S: (n) taw (the 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet)
S: (n) polyphone, polyphonic letter (a letter that has two or more pronunciations) "`c' is a polyphone because it is pronounced like `k' in `car' but like `s' in `cell'"
S: (n) block letter, block capital (a plain hand-drawn letter)
S: (n) vowel (a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel)
S: (n) consonant (a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant)

S: (n) randomness, entropy, S ((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"