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.
Talk to Santa!
On Monday evening, December 13th, ask Santa what you want for gifts from the comfort of your own home!
Mayor's Message
At the Piscataway Senior Center, elderly residents appreciated the opportunity to ask questions of U.S. Representatives Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-6), Tom Malinowski (NJ-7) & Donald M. Payne, Jr. (NJ-10) alongside Mayor Brian C. Wahler about the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act (H.R. 3) from the 116th Congress.
History
The earliest settlers of the area were the Lenape Native Americans; a group of four European settlers from New Hampshire acquired land in 40,000 acres (16,000 ha) of land in 1666 that was occupied by thousands of Native Americans.
Sports
SHI Stadium was originally constructed in 1994 with 41,500 seats as the home of the Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team and was expanded to a capacity of 52,454 in 2009 after a $100-million expansion.
Government
In November 1966, Piscataway voters, under the Faulkner Act, approved a Charter Study and elected a Charter Study Commission to recommend the form of government best suited to the township's needs. The Commission recommended Mayor-Council Plan F.
Emergency services
Piscataway is divided into four fire districts which are served by a total of two volunteer rescue squads and six volunteer fire companies, one of which combines both fire and EMS services.
Education
The Piscataway Township Schools serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grades. As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprised of 10 schools, had an enrollment of 7,161 students and 530.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.5:1.
Points of interest
WVPH is the community radio station of Piscataway High School and Rutgers University.
Notable people
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Piscataway include:
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.