Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The 18th letter of the modern English alphabet.
- noun Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter r.
- noun The 18th in a series.
- noun Something shaped like the letter R.
- abbreviation radius
- abbreviation Electricity resistance
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of Right Worshipful; Right Worthy.
- noun An abbreviation of Rear-Admiral;
- noun of Royal Arcanum;
- noun of Royal Artillery (also
R. Art .). - noun An abbreviation of Red Cross
- noun [lowercase] of right center.
- noun An abbreviation of rapid fire;
- noun in mineralogy, of reducing flame;
- noun [capitalized] of République Française, French Republic;
- noun [capitalized] of Rex Francorum, King of the Franks (French).
- An abbreviation of Radical;
- of railway;
- [lowercase] of rare;
- [lowercase or cap.] of read;
- of Réaumur (see
thermometer ); - of rector;
- of Republican;
- [lowercase] of residence and resides;
- of response;
- of the Latin Respublica, ‘the Republic’;
- [lowercase or cap.] of retired;
- of river;
- [lowercase or cap.] of rod or rods;
- of Roma, Rome;
- [lowercase or cap.] of rood or roods;
- [lowercase] in geometry, of radius (of the incircle); r1, r2, r3, denote the ex-radii beyond a, b, c, respectively; R denotes the radius of the circumcircle;
- [capitalized] in psychophysics, an abbreviation of
G. Reiz , stimulus. - As a symbol: In chem., R has been used for rhodium: more generally, Rh.
- In elect., R or r denotes resistance.
- In electrotechnics, r stands for radius.
- An abbreviation of Rifle Volunteers.
- An abbreviation of railway. Also Rw.
- noun An abbreviation of Royal Engineers;
- noun of Royal Exchange.
- noun An abbreviation of Reformed Episcopal
- noun of Right Excellent
- noun [lowercase] of right eye.
- noun An abbreviation of Royal Dragoons;
- noun of Rural Dean.
- noun An abbreviation of
Roman Catholic . - noun An abbreviation of
Revised Version (of the Bible). - noun An abbreviation of
Rhode Island . - noun An abbreviation of
railroad . - The eighteenth letter and fourteenth consonant in the English alphabet, representing a character having a like position and value in the alphabets from which the English is derived—the Latin, Greek, and Phenician.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word r.
Examples
-
An uncharged black hole has no inner horizon; it should come as no surprise, then, that as you increase the charge (keeping the mass of the black hole fixed), the two horizons at r+ and r - come together.
Where Does the Entropy Go? Sean 2009
-
Also take the quantities q, q², r, r² of the above lemma (11) to be the single expectation values:
Bell's Theorem Shimony, Abner 2009
-
[0, X], and r, r², are real numbers such that r and r² fall in the closed interval
Bell's Theorem Shimony, Abner 2009
-
In an extremal black hole, where all of the energy comes from the electric field itself, the two horizons coincide: we have r+ = r - (extremality).
Where Does the Entropy Go? Sean 2009
-
A representation r is maximally consistent if and only if r is consistent and for any representation r², either r & not-r² is not consistent or r & r² is not consistent (assuming the appropriate conceptions of the negation and conjunction of representations).
Possible Objects Yagisawa, Takashi 2009
-
She ate her dinner quite contentedly, and was just going to settle down comfortably to some thrilling tale of adventure when Br -- r-- r! went the bell, and she knew her fate had descended upon her.
The Governess Julie Mathilde Lippmann
-
_Fa-rewe ` ll lo-ue a ` nd a-ll thi ` e la-wes fo ` r e-ve ` r_
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
-
This rule is conveniently expressed by the formula ((x + 9)/28) _r, in which x denotes the date, and the symbol r denotes that the remainder, which arises from the division of x + 9 by 28, is the number required.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
-
He commences slowly, as if repeating the syllable, _de de de de de de d 'd' d 'd' d 'd' d 'r' r 'r'_, -- increasing in rapidity, and at the same time rising as it were by semi-tones, or chromatically, to about a major fourth on the scale.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various
-
The air is full of the rattle of the cicada, which is like the sound of a loud cricket, or the 'r-- r' of a corncraik's note going on for ever and ever; and the house lizard in the church goes cheep -- cheep -- cheep every now and then.
alexz commented on the word r
text-speak for 'are'
January 22, 2021