a
/ə,ā/
determiner
- used when referring to someone or something for the first time in a text or conversation."a man came out of the room"
- used to indicate membership of a class of people or things."he is a lawyer"
- used when expressing rates or ratios; in, to, or for each; per."typing 60 words a minute"
The letter Å represents various sounds in several languages. It is a separate letter in Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, North Frisian, Low Saxon, Transylvanian Saxon, Walloon, Chamorro, Lule Sami, Pite Sami, Skolt Sami, Southern Sami, Ume... Wikipedia
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide.
... a . , Cic .; ( leviter ) trans - Virg .; lascivio , 4. n . , Quint . , Ov . - 2 . čo , a . irreg . , Cic .; ( breviter ) attingo , Tocaress ; blandior , 4 ...
... A Limbeck ; Alembec , alambic , bocie , campan TM ; Bozza di vetro per distillare ; Alambico . To ftill in a Limbeck ; Alembiquer , a- Lambiquer Distiller ...
... a fair die twice, and now define a random variable Y as follows: Y : 1 if the sum of the two rolls X is an even number, Y : 0 if the sum of the two rolls X ...
... a branch to the centre , and the Mystic Valley Railroad will also pass through Woburn . Horn Pond , with an area of ninety - one acres , a noted resort , is ...
... a ray at A , on fuppofition that from a ftate of reft it begins its motion at B ; but if at B it has a velocity expreffed by any right line as IK , parallel ...
... a time in Darmstadt to renew his studies under Vogler . Weber and Meyerbeer were his fellow- pupils , and the three formed a lasting friendship . Weber ...
... a mid-back vowel: lgooddgoo/ ['korku] 'hole', and Imoolooddja/ ['molorca] (a place name). When /00/ is followed by a syllable closing /w/ the sequence loow ...
А (А а; italics: А а) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents an open central unrounded vowel /ä/, halfway between the pronunciation of ...
a feminine singular ending of nouns borrowed from Latin and Greek, also used in New Latin coinages to Latinize bases of any origin, and as a Latin substitute ...