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The symbol for the element sulfur.
The symbol for entropy.
abbreviation Bible Samuel

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The nineteenth letter and fifteenth consonant of the English alphabet, having a corresponding place also in the alphabets from which that is derived (the twenty-first, or last but one, in Phenician). The historical exhibit of related forms, as given for the other letters (see especially A), is as follows: The Phenician system had more than one sibilant sign, and the Greek choice wavered at first between two of them, until it settled upon this one. Of all the signs here given the value was the same—namely, our normal s-sound, as in so, us. This is a surd or breathed utterance, a fricative or continuable consonant, of a peculiar character, to which we give the name of sibilant or hissing. Its sonant or voiced counterpart (related to it as d to t, as v to f, and so on) is z, as in zeal, dizzy (the buzzing sound). They are produced between the tongue, at or near its tip, and a point on the roof of the mouth either close behind the front teeth or at a further remove from them. Probably no other of our alphabetic sounds are producible through so wide a range of (slightly) varying positions, or actually produced, in different districts and individuals, in so different a manner. None, also, are more freely combinable with other consonant-sounds into intricate groups, as in strands, twelfths, splints, sixths. In virtue of their mode of production, they are akin with t and d, and, like them, are often called dental, or lingual, or tongue-tip sounds. The proper or hissing s is one of the most common elements of English utterance, forming more than 4½ per cent. of it. But its sign has also other values. As s is one of our most used endings—for example, of plural number, of possessive case, of third person singular present—it comes extremely often at the end of a word, and there, after any sonant sound, it is pronounced as z: for example, loves, love's, he loves; flies, fly's, he flies; and it has the same sound often in the interior of words, especially between sonants: for example, use, nose, dismal. The s-sound, on the other hand, is represented to a considerable extent by c before e, i, y (see C); and by double s, or ss, which is frequent in the middle and at the end of words, and has the hissing sound, save in a few exceptional cases, like dissolve, possess (between the o and e). Another sound often represented by s is the sh-sound (see below)—namely, in very numerous cases where the s is followed by a consonantal y-sound, whether written with i, as in passion, or implied in “long u,” as in sure, fissure: since the combination sy in English pronunciation has a strong tendency to fuse into sh, and in ordinary free utterance often does so, even in cases where theory and extra-careful usage require the separation of the two sounds. This fused sound is represented by the important digraph sh (also by ch in a few French words, as machine). It is a second sibilant, a more palatal one—as simple an utterance as the s-sibilant, but very much less frequent (less than 1 per cent, or one fifth of s; but about 1½ per cent. if its presence in the ch-sound is included). It is made with nearly the same part of the tongue as s, and against the roof of the mouth, but generally a little further back, and especially (it would seem) with an opener cavity immediately behind the point of closest approximation of the organs. Its compound sign (Middle English and German sch) marks it as coming historically from the fusion of an s with a following guttural spirant. It has a rare sonant counterpart in the zh-sound of azure, pleasure, and the like (as to which, see Z). The sh- and zh-sounds also constitute the concluding element in the compound ch- and. j- or soft g-sounds (see ch and G and J) combined with a somewhat modified t and d respectively (made by a contact at the sh-point) as first element.
As a medieval Roman numeral, 7; also 70; with a dash over it (S), 70,000.
In chem., the symbol of sulphur.

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Testing by Kraft led to a pistachio recall in the U-S, and the recall of more than two dozen products so far in Canada.
The TD712zMK2 and the TD712zMK2-S, which is basically identical to the former but comes with a shorter stand, go on sale at the end of this month. — about-electronics.eu
One area of concern in the U.S. is Chinese financial influence. — The Heritage Foundation Papers
S*P*Y*S is an "uneven spy spoof" and "was panned by critics when it was originally released and it's not hard to see why the movie has received a lot of negative press," writes — GreenCine Daily
"The Karma S is an extension of the Fisker Automotive product range of eco-conscious automobiles and sets the tone for our future." — Carscoop

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