s
Pronunciation: /ɛs/
abbreviation
- second(s).
- Law section (of an act): the change is effected by the bringing into effect of s 130 of the Companies Act 1989
- shilling(s): a room cost a guinea a night with a 2s 6d supplement for hot bathwater
- Grammar singular.
- Chemistry solid.
- (in genealogies) son(s): m 1991; one s one d
- succeeded.
- Chemistry denoting electrons and orbitals possessing zero angular momentum and total symmetry: s-electrons[s from sharp, originally applied to lines in atomic spectra]