Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The tenth letter of the modern English alphabet.
- n. Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter j.
- n. The tenth in a series.
- n. Something shaped like the letter J.
- n. The hypothetical traditional source of those portions of the Pentateuch in which God is referred to with the Tetragrammaton rather than as Elohim.
- Electricity The symbol for current density.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An abbreviation
- of the Latin judex, judge;
- of Jupiter;
- of Justice.
Wiktionary
- n. The tenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
- n. palatal approximant
- n. pharmacy, obsolete one
- n. The tenth letter of the English alphabet, called jay and written in the Latin script.
- n. slang A term for a marijuana cigarette ('joint').
- n. mathematics An alternative version of i, the positive square root of -1; used in the context of electronics.
- n. mathematics The second unit vector, after i
GNU Webster's 1913
- J is the tenth letter of the English alphabet. It is a later variant form of Roman letter I, used to express a consonantal sound, that is, originally, the sound of English
y inyet . The forms J and I have, until a recent time, been classed together, and they have been used interchangeably.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the 10th letter of the Roman alphabet
- n. a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second
Etymologies
- Sense 5, from J(ehovah). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“For a more detailed explanation, look at an x-y plane, with vectors i and j (+i = east, - i = west, +j = north, - j = south):”
“I used the following shell one-liner: for i in *; do for j in $i/*; do cd $j; tar xf *. tar.gz; cd ..”
“In one of my scripts, I take input in the following manner for i in $ (seq $r) do for j in $ (seq $c) do read - p "a [$i] [$j] =" a$i$j done done this code declares separate variables each time it enters the inner for loop.”
“ToString (); for (int j = 0; j < = count; j++) rbtlist.”
“What may sound like 'of' is the weak form of háve and so this or apostrophes should be written instead: woùld have, shoùld've, cān't have, mîght've etc. - * óv óf goôf cf. plural âgeing cf. sing sínging -- j - singe síngeing. *âking âcheing mâking snooker, drama cûeing = line cf. singe síngeing - j -- sing sínging thíng often mispronounced 'Beizhing':”
“NEF for i in *. tiff; do j = ` echo $i | sed - e 's / tiff / jpg / g '`; convert $i $j; done No Trackbacks”
“ReadValues (Index, N); for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) for (int j = 0; j < N, j++)”
“Original Poster read a b c d e for (i in $a $b $c $d $e) do for (j in $a $b $c $d $e) do if test $i - lt $j”
“C++ Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) for (j = 2; j < = i/2; j++) for (j = 2; j < = i/2; j++)”
“Then two sons of the principal mourner, in - j _j | ..,”
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Programming Languages
The last time someone tried this theme, it was a closed list with only two words; time to make amends. Scripting languages, etc. are also fair game...
c, c++, java, pascal, delphi, python, perl, lisp, algol, cobol, ada, apl and 121 more...
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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...
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