Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- A trademark used for a movie rating indicating that admission will be granted only to persons of or over a certain age, usually 17, unless accompanied by a parent or guardian.
- The symbol for gas constant.
- The symbol for radical.
- abbr. range (surveying)
- abbr. Réaumur (scale)
- abbr. registered trademark
- abbr. Republican.
- abbr. Ecclesiastical response
- abbr. right.
- abbr. roentgen.
- abbr. rook (chess)
- abbr. Baseball run
Wiktionary
- n. The eighteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
- n. physics roentgen (unit)
- n. physics resistance (in electricity)
- n. genetics IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for any purine
- n. biochemistry IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for arginine
- n. The eighteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script.
- n. The ordinal number eighteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script.
- abbr. US politics Republican
- abbr. restricted
- abbr. reverse
- abbr. right (as opposed to left)
- abbr. handbells ring.
- abbr. chess rook
- abbr. baseball, cricket The statistic reporting the number of runs scored by a player
- abbr. Thursday
Etymologies
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Examples
“It is interesting that the Drake equation has SFR as the first item R* R star, which was originally given by Drake as "the average rate of star formation in the galaxy”
If the Earth is Rare, We May Not Hear from ET | Universe Today
“(Anderson was an R-- a very progressive R, and Rolvaag was DFL).”
Minnesota Recount Almost Over -- But Coleman Could Keep A Franken Win Bottled Up For Weeks
“Joynr post 7/31/7 PA 2298 R 297 R% 12.92 H 538 BA 265 bb/pa 9.09 Slg 449.”
“Recall that a relation R stands to its ancestral R* as the relation is a parent of stands to is an ancestor of.”
“S among the members of P, everyone conforms to R; everyone expects everyone else to conform to R; everyone has approximately the same preferences regarding all possible combinations of actions; everyone prefers that everyone conform to R, on condition that at least all but one conform to R; everyone would prefer that everyone conform to R², on condition that at least all but one conform to”
“And since we all know who is doing it, we should stop arguing No on Prop R-----it is No on Prop R slamdunk--and get the mayor's office to tell us who this sub one percenter is so he can be out of our goverment for good.”
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“You said Hume and any similarly situated agnostic has a defeater for R, a belief to which he is inclined by nature -- and you added that the rational course for them therefore is to give up belief in R-- provided they have no other information about the reliability of their faculties.”
“We ought to understand that the total interval (0, 1) say, has a probability, but certain point sets in (0, 1), like R or R′, are of type”
“The conclusion (Tornier, Geiringer) is that to the set R (and to R′) no probability can be assigned in a frequency theory.”
“The single “trial” consists of as many draws as needed to decide whether this decimal is rational or not (belongs to R or to R′).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘R’.
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Film
jidaigeki, samurai, Kurosawa, action, comedy, drama, Bergman, Buñuel, surreal, rotoscope, melodrama, Cinerama and 333 more...
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SCIE - statistics
a priori probability, Abbe-Helmert crit..., absolute error, absolutely unbias..., accuracy, ACF, affinity, AIC, algorithm, allometry, alphabet, anomic and 4171 more...
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All Things Scrabble
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Boy or Girl Letters?
I recently had a discussion with my family on the sex of language. So I was just wondering about y'all's opinions on the gender/sex of American English letters.
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Single Letters with Meaning
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Letters
See also The Phonetic alphabet by oroboros.
aye, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, eff, gee, aitch, eye, jay, kay and 452 more...
Tweets
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