One-Letter Words A Dictionary 11

One-Letter Words A Dictionary 11

One-Letter Words A Dictionary 11

... which maximize surface area for heat dissipation. The three fins form a Y- shaped cross- section. FOREIGN MEANINGS 44. conj. (Spanish) And, as in Maria y Juan, “Maria and Juan.” FACTS AND FIGURES ... consonant Y means “awareness.” —Joseph E. Rael, Tracks of Dancing Light: A Native American Approach to Understand - ing Your Name 31. n. The twenty- fifth letter of the alphabet. Y’s career as...
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Perfect Bound Press One-Letter Words A Dictionary

Perfect Bound Press One-Letter Words A Dictionary

... and it’s a rating for an adult movie. X is a power of magnification, an axis on a graph, and a female chromosome. It is a multiplication operator, a letter of the alphabet, and an arbitrary point ... when a Buddhist lexicographer named Saddhammakitti enumerated Pali words of one letter in a work entitled Ekakkharakosa. It may have taken 300 years to bridge the gap, but I like...
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One-Letter Words A Dictionary 1

One-Letter Words A Dictionary 1

... oysters), lean meats, poultry, cheese, and eggs are also good sources. The only known plant sources are yeast, alfalfa, and two Japanese seaweeds—wakame and kombu. —Ameri - can Medical Association ... universal affi rmative A, the universal negative E, the par - ticular affi rmative I, and the particular negative O. 47. n. (mathematics) A matrix. The use of a single letter A to represent...
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One-Letter Words A Dictionary 10

One-Letter Words A Dictionary 10

... mirror glass, and a flying- V aerial on the back. Very cyberpunk. —Ian McDonald, Evolution’s Shore 32. n. V- beam radar: a height- finding radar that emits a vertical beam and another at 45 degrees.” ... cylinders are arranged in a V shape (e.g., V- 6 or V- 8). Cadillac anticipated the advantages of the V- type engine back in 1914 and has built no other type since. —R. M. Clarke, Cadilla...
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One-Letter Words A Dictionary 2

One-Letter Words A Dictionary 2

... (electronics) A battery, as in “C supply.” 38. n. A high- level programming language. Programmers based the C programming language on an early programming language by the name of B (although no programming ... fatty fish such as herring, mackerel, and salmon. —American Medical Association 29. n. (biology) Aspartate, an amino acid. 30. n. A layer of the ionosphere, as in the “D layer.” [T...
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One-Letter Words A Dictionary 3

One-Letter Words A Dictionary 3

... (mathematics) The natural number e, used as the base for natural logarithms and with applica - tions in problems of population growth and radio- active decay. 31. n. The heaviest weight of sandpaper ... Millikan in 1917, was later refined through the discovery of the relationship between the Avogadro’s constant N and the Faraday constant F. 35. n. (biology) Glutamate, an amino acid. 36. n. A...
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One-Letter Words A Dictionary 4

One-Letter Words A Dictionary 4

... dairy products, fish, and tomatoes. —Ameri- can Medical Association And it doesn’t really matter, anyway, because we’ll soon fatten him up again. All we’ll have to do is give him a triple dosage ... that was like a T, but now ’tis made an H.” —William Shake - speare, Antony and Cleopatra, IV.vii.8. There is a pun here on ache, which in Shakespeare’s day was pronounced aitch. 3. (in liter...
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One-Letter Words A Dictionary 5

One-Letter Words A Dictionary 5

... universal affi rmative A, the universal negative E, the par - ticular affi rmative I, and the particular negative O. 37. n. A unit vector parallel to the x- axis. 38. n. Candlepower. The term candlepower ... is I- shaped. 30. n. I ring: a metal band encircling a metal drum. 31. n. I formation: “an offensive football play in which the quarterback, a half back, the full back, and the tai...
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One-Letter Words A Dictionary 6

One-Letter Words A Dictionary 6

... 19. n. (mathematics) In linear algebra, a matrix in which only zeros appear above the diagonal. L is a lower triangular matrix. —Marie A. Vitulli, A Brief History of Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory” ... Johnny spun to face a bookcase of art criticism and wondered desperately if K came before or after K 91 N. The alphabet, a pillar, a solace and a certainty since kindergarten, h...
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One-Letter Words A Dictionary 7

One-Letter Words A Dictionary 7

... line above it, a Roman numeral for 1,000,000. 16. n. A computer programming language. M is a procedural, general purpose language with well- developed database handling capabilities . . . . M 111 ... or after N. The alphabet, a pillar, a solace and a certainty since kindergarten, had suddenly deserted him. He stood, bewildered and staring, as if he’d suffered a crisis of faith....
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