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S is the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet.

Contents

• History
• Language and linguistics
• Transportation
• Mathematics and logic
• Physics and chemistry
• Biology and medicine
• Computing
• People
• Arts and entertainment
• Books
• Music
• Television
• Comics
• Automobiles
• Production models
• Prototypes and concepts
• Series and trims
• Other uses
• See also

S may also refer to:

History

• an Anglo-Saxon charter's number in Peter Sawyer's, catalogue

Language and linguistics

• 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
• -s, a suffix added to some English surnames, originally meaning "son of"
• s, the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol for a voiceless alveolar sibilant sound
• S, the subject of an intransitive verb
• Ѕ, the Cyrillic letter Dze
• Տ, the Armenian letter tyun
• Ⴝ, the Georgian Asomtavruli letter ch'ari

Transportation

• S (New York City Subway service), one of the three services:
  • Franklin Avenue Shuttle
  • 42nd Street Shuttle (also called the Grand Central/Times Square Shuttle) (internally referred to as the 0)
  • Rockaway Park Shuttle (also called Rockaway Shuttle) (internally referred to as the H)
• Toei Shinjuku Line, a subway service operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (Toei), labeled
• Sennichimae Line, a subway service operated by the Osaka Metro, labeled
• , the official West Japan Railway Company service symbol for the Kansai Airport Line

Mathematics and logic

• Integral symbol (∫), used in mathematics to denote integrals and antiderivatives
• S combinator in combinatory logic
• Sphere
• S (set theory), an axiomatic set theory
• s(n), the aliquot sum of an integer n

Physics and chemistry

• Sulfur, symbol S, a chemical element
• s, for second, the SI unit of time
• S, the symbol for entropy
• 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
• s, one of the Mandelstam variables, the square of the invariant mass
• Siemens (unit), the SI derived unit of electric conductance
• S-block of the periodic table, which includes alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, and hydrogen and helium
• Spin (physics)
• s, an abbreviation for solid
• S-matrix for how a particle physics system works under a scattering process. This is a distinct concept from scattering parameters, below, which may also be referred to as an S-matrix in the context of radio frequency transmissions.

Biology and medicine

• Serine, a standard amino acid abbreviated as Ser or S
• ATC code S Sensory organs, a section of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
• S phase or synthesis phase, a period in the cell cycle during interphase

Computing

• Samsung Galaxy S (2010 smartphone), 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
• S record or SREC, a file format with an ASCII representation of Binary data

People

• S, the pen name of Percy Bysshe Shelley
• "S.", the nickname for Solomon Shereshevsky (1886-1958), a Russian journalist, mnemonist, and synesthete notable for his unusual memory abilities

Arts and entertainment

Automobiles

Other uses

• S by Shakira, the first woman's fragrance by Colombian singer songwriter Shakira
• Safety (gridiron football position)
• South on a map or compass, one of the four cardinal directions
• s, the SI symbol for second
• Shilling (British coin)
• Scattering parameters as S-matrix or S-parameters for how an electrical network behaves at some frequency, used e.g. with radio transmission
• Old Israeli Shekel, denominated as S
• S postcode area, a postcode area including Sheffield, England
• A party label for the Swedish Social Democratic Party
• Strike (baseball)
• S band, a band of radio which ranges from 2 to 4 GHz
• Sierra, the military time zone code for UTC−06:00
• Cool S, a graffiti sign

See also

• 's (disambiguation)
• -s (disambiguation)
• S class (disambiguation)
• S Curve (disambiguation)
• Split S

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