S (disambiguation)

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S is the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet.

S may also refer to:

Language and linguistics

Transportation and places

  • South, a cardinal direction, usually shown at the bottom of a map or compass
  • S postcode area, England, centered around Sheffield
  • S, the designation letter for Sierra Time Zone, the military time zone for UTC−06:00

Trains

Automobiles

Production models

Prototypes and concepts

Series and trims

  • Acura Type-S, a range of Japanese performance vehicles
  • Audi S, a range of German performance vehicles
  • Honda S series, series of Japanese sports cars
  • Jaguar S, a range of British performance vehicles
  • Saviem S, a range of French medium-duty cab-over trucks

Mathematics and logic

Science and technology

Physics, chemistry, and telecommunications

  • Sulfur, symbol S, a chemical element
  • S, the symbol for entropy
  • S, a non-SI unit used to designate molecule size named after the Svedberg sedimentation coefficient
  • (S), a label that denotes one of two chiral center configurations in the R/S system
  • s, one of the Mandelstam variables, the square of the invariant mass
  • Siemens (unit), the SI derived unit of electric conductance
  • S-block of the periodic table, which includes alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, and hydrogen and helium
  • Spin (physics)
  • s, an abbreviation for solid
  • S-matrix for how a particle physics system works under a scattering process. This is a distinct concept from scattering parameters, below, which may also be referred to as an S-matrix in the context of radio frequency transmissions.
  • Scattering parameters as S-matrix or S-parameters for how an electrical network behaves at some frequency, used e.g. with radio transmission
  • S band, a band of radio which ranges from 2 to 4 GHz

Biology and medicine

  • Serine, a standard amino acid abbreviated as Ser or S
  • ATC code S Sensory organs, a section of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
  • S phase or synthesis phase, a period in the cell cycle during interphase

Electronics and computing

  • Nikon S-mount, type of interchangeable lens mount used by a series of Nikon 35 mm rangefinder cameras
  • Nikon S, a 34 mm rangefinder film camera
  • Samsung Galaxy S (2010 smartphone), the first flagship smartphone of the Samsung Galaxy S series
  • S (programming language), an environment for statistical computing and graphics
  • <s>, the opening tag for the HTML element denoting information that is "no longer accurate or no longer relevant", usually rendered as strike-through text
  • S record or SREC, a file format with an ASCII representation of Binary data

People

Arts and entertainment

Books

Music

  • S, the stage name of singer-songwriter and guitarist Jenn Champion
  • S (group), a short-lived South Korean music group active in 2003 and 2014
  • S, a 2001 EP by Japanese musical duo NaNa
  • S (EP), a 2013 EP by American singer SZA
  • Numbering of Franz Liszt's works according to Humphrey Searle's catalogue
  • "S" (song), by Japanese band Sid

Television

Comics

Sports

Currency

Other uses

See also

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