S (disambiguation)
| Look up S in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. | 
S is the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet.
S may also refer to:
General
- Shilling (British coin)
 - S band, a band of radio which ranges from 2 to 4 GHz
 - S-block of the periodic table, which includes alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, and hydrogen and helium
 - S combinator in combinatory logic
 - S postcode area, a postcode area including Sheffield, England
 - Long s (ſ), a form of the lower-case letter s formerly used where "s" occurred in the middle or at the beginning of a word
 - Integral symbol (∫), used in mathematics to denote integrals and antiderivatives
 - "S", the nickname for Solomon Shereshevskii (1886-1958), Russian journalist known for an exceptional memory
 - South on a map, one of the 4 cardinal directions
 - -s, a suffix added to some English surnames, originally meaning "son of"
 - A party label for the Swedish Social Democratic Party
 - Strike (baseball)
 
Science
- S, the chemical symbol for the element Sulfur on the periodic table
 - S, the symbol for entropy
 - s, the SI symbol for second
 - s, the IPA symbol for a voiceless alveolar sibilant sound
 - S, the single argument of canonical intransitive verb in interlineal glossing
 - s, one of the Mandelstam variables, the square of the invariant mass
 - S, a non-SI unit used to designate molecule size named after the Svedberg sedimentation coefficient
 - S, a label that denotes one of two chiral center configurations in the R/S system
 - Serine, a standard amino acid abbreviation
 - ATC code S Sensory organs, a section of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
 - Siemens (unit), the SI derived unit of electric conductance
 - S phase or synthesis phase, a period in the cell cycle during interphase
 - Spin (physics)
 - Sphere
 - s(n), the aliquot sum of an integer n
 
Computing
- Samsung Galaxy S, the first flagship smartphone of the Samsung Galaxy S series
 - S (programming language), an environment for statistical computing and graphics
 -  <s>, the opening tag for the HTML element denoting information that is "no longer accurate or no longer relevant", usually rendered as 
strike-through text 
Books
- S. (Dorst novel), written by Doug Dorst based on story by J.J. Abrams
 - S. (Updike novel), part of the Scarlet Letter trilogy by John Updike
 - S (novel series), a 2005-2006 light novel series
 
People
- S - pen-name of Percy Bysshe Shelley
 - "S." - given name for Solomon Shereshevsky, a Russian journalist, mnemonist, and synesthete notable for his unusual memory abilities.
 
Music
- S, the stage name of singer-songwriter and guitarist Jenn Ghetto
 - S (group), a short-lived South Korean music group, active in 2003
 - S (EP), a 2001 EP by Japanese musical duo NaNa
 - Numbering of Franz Liszt's works according to Humphrey Searle's catalogue
 
See also
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, April 27, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.