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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation Football safety
  • abbreviation Bible Samuel
  • abbreviation satisfactory
  • abbreviation Saturday
  • abbreviation Sports shot
  • abbreviation siemens
  • abbreviation small
  • abbreviation soprano
  • abbreviation south
  • abbreviation southern
  • abbreviation Baseball strike
  • abbreviation Sports striker
  • abbreviation Sunday

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  • noun The nineteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
  • noun chemistry symbol for sulfur / sulphur
  • noun metrology symbol for siemens, a measure of electrical conductance.
  • noun metrology symbol for spat (obsolete astronomical unit of distance).
  • noun metrology symbol for svedberg (unit of sedimentation rate in ultracentrifugation).
  • noun biochemistry IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for serine
  • noun geology symbol for storativity
  • noun American Library Association Abbreviation for sextodecimo, a book size, 15-17.5 cm in height.
  • noun The nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ess and written in the Latin script.
  • noun The ordinal number nineteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called ess and written in the Latin script.

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  • Chapter III-2 Supply Chain Management: IOMA Readers Report What Works E X C L U S I V E S U RV E Y: R        S        B    S T S F P P

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows Batjaa_sh 2009

  • Since it is possible that ˜p™ coheres with the belief system of S while ˜not-p™ coheres with the belief system of S*, the coherentist account seems to imply, absurdly, that contradictories, ˜p™ and

    The Correspondence Theory of Truth David, Marian 2009

  • Given two languages L and L², we can compare them by asking whether every class Mod (S), with S a sentence of L, is also a class of the form Mod (S²) where S² is a sentence of L².

    Model Theory Hodges, Wilfrid 2009

  • So, if we represent the joint, partial state of S and S* (just the part of it which specifies the value of [A on S & B on S*], the observable whose values correspond to joint assignments of values to the measured observable on S and the pointer observable on S*) by the vector | A = ais | B = b is*, and let

    Quantum Mechanics Ismael, Jenann 2009

  • Suppose that we have a system S and a device S* which measures an observable A on S with values {a1, a2, a3 ...}.

    Quantum Mechanics Ismael, Jenann 2009

  • (It might be that neither S nor S* are expressible in languages we can understand, but let us set this aside.)

    Physicalism Stoljar, Daniel 2009

  • Brazilian Atlantic Islands (03° 45 'to 03° 57' S and 32° 19 'to 32° 41'W and 03° 30' to 04° 30 'S and 32° 00' to 34° 00 'W) is a World Heritage Site located in the Atlantic Ocean.

    Brazilian Atlantic Islands, Brazil 2008

  • I liked the effect and kept it, sometimes as a dash after my S, sometimes as an elongated tail of the letter that extends across it, but more commonly as a line through my S -- the way I draw lines through my 7's in the European manner.

    Lamberto Bava and the Family Cross 2008

  • I liked the effect and kept it, sometimes as a dash after my S, sometimes as an elongated tail of the letter that extends across it, but more commonly as a line through my S -- the way I draw lines through my 7's in the European manner.

    Archive 2008-10-05 2008

  • It lies between 28°55 'to 29°55' S and 29°05 'to 29°45'E, with a northern outlier, Royal Natal National Park, between 28°38' to 28°46 'S and 28°52' to 29°00 'E. Date and History of Establishment

    UKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, South Africa 2008

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