Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation accusative
- abbreviation Games ace
- abbreviation across
- abbreviation adenine
- abbreviation alto
- abbreviation ampere
- abbreviation angstrom
- abbreviation answer
- abbreviation area
- abbreviation Sports assist
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- noun The first letter of the
basic modern Latin alphabet . - noun Marks the first item in a list
- noun A hypothetical item or person designated first when there are more than one.
- noun computing The
hexadecimal digit for 10 - noun The first
letter of the Englishalphabet , calleda and written in theLatin script . - noun The
ordinal numberfirst , derived from thisletter of the Englishalphabet , calleda and written in theLatin script . - noun stock symbol Symbol for the company Agilent Technologies, Inc. on the
NYSE . - noun chemistry, obsolete Symbol for the element Argon (Since 1956 has been changed to
Ar ). - noun geometry
area - abbreviation physics
ampere , a unit ofelectrical current . - abbreviation genetics
IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation foradenine in genetic code. - abbreviation biochemistry
IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation foralanine in proteins. - abbreviation vehicle-distinguishing signs
Austria - noun The highest rank on any of various scales that assign letters.
- noun education The highest
letter grade assigned (disregarding plusses and minuses). - noun medicine A
blood type that has a specific antigen that aggravates the immune response in people with typeB antigen in their blood. They may receive blood from type A or typeO , but cannot receive blood fromAB orB . - noun chemistry
Mass number . - noun acoustic source
- noun actual weight of an aircraft
- noun historical
adulterer ,adulteress - noun Alaska Steamship Company
- noun Alcoa Steamship Company
- noun
allele dominant - noun alveolar gas
- noun American Stock Exchange
- noun ammunition examiner
- noun Anchor Line
- noun
aspect ratio - noun Assembly Bill
- noun Smallest of the
brassiere cup sizes. - noun Chemical activity.
- noun first van der Waals constant
- noun
Fraunhofer line foroxygen - noun aviation
hail - noun includes extras
- noun linear acceleration
- noun mean sound absorption coefficient
- noun Shoe size narrower than B
- noun baseball Single A league, one of the lowest professional leagues.
- noun Total acidity.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The standard ratings are looking a little dated now, with just about everything on the market qualifying for an A, so at Marks & Spencer you'll find things rated AA and AAA; elsewhere it'll come up as A+ and A+++, but it all means the same thing, the plus or extra A means it goes 10% more efficiently than an A by itself.
Lighten the load Guy Clapperton 2010
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Promoted to Headline (H3) on 5/17/09: Bush-Obama: 'A rose by any other name 'yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' Bush-Obama: \'A rose by any other name\ ''; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Who said, "A war criminal is a war ciminal is a war criminal?"'
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The four highest ratings at insurance specialist A.M. Best Co. are A++, A+, A and A -.
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A Quiet Excellence: an A+ yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'A Quiet Excellence: an A+ '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: But there is an empty chair at the party.
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P lowered Portuguese long - and short-term ratings by two notches to 'A -/A-2' from 'A+/A - 1' - outlook is negative.
FXstreet.com Danske Bank A/S 2010
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After initially rejecting a confusing appliance energy rating scheme that involved grades of A+++, A++, A+ and A, Europe's Trialogue parties of the European Council, European Commission and European Parliament accepted the scheme which would see consumers confused and A grades going to relatively energy inefficient products.
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(IDR) to 'BBB+' from 'A -', senior debt rating to 'BBB' from 'BBB+', and Insurer Financial Strength (IFS) rating of its primary insurance subsidiaries to 'A' from 'A+'.
unknown title 2009
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(A-A″) 71B-Gal4/UAS-NkdGFP third-instar Drosophila salivary gland stained with α-Dsh and imaged for GFP (A) and Dsh (A′) distributions (merged image in A″).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jianhui Guo et al. 2009
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The firm led the sale itself, and the bonds were rated A1 by Moody's Investors Service, A by Standard & Poor's and A+ by Fitch Ratings.
Goldman Sachs Sells Katy Burne 2011
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One achieved 10 A and A* grades at GCSE at a private school.
Which school should I choose? Alice Douglas 2010
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