s — ODE · Shobdo

s /ɛs

▸ abbreviation

1 second(s).

2 Law section (of an act):

the change is effected by the bringing into effect of s 130 of the Companies Act 1989.

3 shilling(s):

a room cost a guinea a night with a 2s 6d supplement for hot bathwater.

4 Grammar singular.

5 Chemistry solid.

6 (in genealogies) son(s):

m 1991; one s one d.

7 succeeded.

8 Chemistry denoting electrons and orbitals possessing zero angular momentum and total symmetry:

s-electrons.

[ s from sharp, originally applied to lines in atomic spectra]

▸ symbol (in mathematical formulae) distance.