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apartment | b |

As a noun apartment

is apartment.

As a letter b is

the second letter of the.

As a symbol b is

a blood type that has a specific antigen that aggravates the immune response in people with type a antigen in their blood they can receive blood from type b or type o, but cannot receive blood from ab or a.

apartment

Noun

(en noun)
  • A complete domicile occupying only part of a building.
  • apartment dwellers
  • (archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.
  • *
  • By this contrivance I got into the inmost court; and, lying down upon my side, I applied my face to the windows of the middle stories, which were left open on purpose, and discovered the most splendid apartments that can be imagined. There I saw the empress and the young princes in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them.
  • (obsolete) A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment
  • * 1883 April 23, Slawson ''v.'' Grand Street R. Co. , 107 U.S. 649, 2 S.Ct. 663, 664,
  • The specification described the ordinary fare-box used in street cars and omnibuses, consisting of two apartments', the one directly above the other.... [T]he passenger deposited his fare in an aperture in the top of the upper '''apartment'''. It fell upon and was arrested by a movable platform.... This platform turned on an axis acted on by a lever. When turned, the fare fell into the lower ' apartment , which was a receptacle for holding the fares accumulated....

    Synonyms

    * (domicile occupying part of a building) flat (UK); unit; (compare with) condominium

    Derived terms

    * apartment building

    See also

    * tenement

    b

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=a, next=c, image= (wikipedia b)

    Letter

  • The second letter of the .
  • Usage notes

    The letter b is used in several romanization systems to represent the bilabial plosive or stop, usually voiced (.

    See also

    * (Latin script ): Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz * For more variations, see . {{Letter, page=B , NATO=Bravo , Morse=–··· , Character=B2 , Braille=? }} Image:Latin B.png, Capital and lowercase versions of B , in normal and italic type File:Fraktur letter B.png, Uppercase and lowercase B in Fraktur File:UncialB-01.png, uncial approximate form of Greek upper case beta that was the source for both common variants of b B in uncial script

    Symbol

    (Voiced bilabial plosive) (head)
  • voiced bilabial plosive
  • (label) beauty quark, bottom quark
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