S (disambiguation)
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S is the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet.
S may also refer to:
General
- South on a map, one of the 4 cardinal directions
- s, the SI symbol for second
- Shilling (British coin)
- S postcode area, a postcode area including Sheffield, England
- A party label for the Swedish Social Democratic Party
- Strike (baseball)
- S band, a band of radio which ranges from 2 to 4 GHz
Language and linguistics
- Long s (ſ), a form of the lower-case letter s formerly used where "s" occurred in the middle or at the beginning of a word
- -s, a suffix added to some English surnames, originally meaning "son of"
- s, the IPA symbol for a voiceless alveolar sibilant sound
- S, the subject of an intransitive verb
Mathematics and logic
- Integral symbol (∫), used in mathematics to denote integrals and antiderivatives
- S combinator in combinatory logic
- Sphere
- s(n), the aliquot sum of an integer n
Physics and chemistry
- S, the chemical symbol for the element Sulfur on the periodic table
- 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)
Biology and medicine
- Serine, a standard amino acid abbreviation
- 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
Computing
- Samsung Galaxy S, 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
Books
- S. (Dorst novel), written by Doug Dorst based on story by J.J. Abrams
- S. (Updike novel), part of the Scarlet Letter trilogy by John Updike
- S (novel series), a 2005-2006 light novel series
People
- S - pen-name of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- "S." - given name for Solomon Shereshevsky, a Russian journalist, mnemonist, and synesthete notable for his unusual memory abilities.
- "S", the nickname for Solomon Shereshevskii (1886-1958), Russian journalist known for an exceptional memory
Music
- S, the stage name of singer-songwriter and guitarist Jenn Ghetto
- S (group), a short-lived South Korean music group, active in 2003
- S (EP), a 2001 EP by Japanese musical duo NaNa
- Numbering of Franz Liszt's works according to Humphrey Searle's catalogue
See also
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