E vs An - What's the difference?
e | an |
The fifth letter of the .
(label) The base of natural logarithms, a transcendental number with a value of approximately 2.718281828459
Symbol separating mantissa from the exponent in scientific notation.
close-mid front unrounded vowel
(l)
(label) electron
Image:Latin E.png, Capital and lowercase versions of E , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter E.png, Uppercase and lowercase E in Fraktur
Image:Uncial e.png, Approximate form of upper case letter E in uncial script that was the source for lower case e
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(UK, non-standard) used in many British regional accents before some words beginning with a pronounced h
(archaic) If, so long as.
(archaic) as if; as though.
In each; to or for each; per.
As a letter e
is the letter e with a circumflex.As a noun an is
favor, grace.e
Translingual
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See also
(Latn-script) * (select similar letters and symbols) * (other scripts) * SeeSymbol
(Close-mid front unrounded vowel) (head)- 1.2566e-6 = 1.2566 × 10-6
- a'' ? ''e''''' = '''''e'' ? ''a'' = ''a
Synonyms
* (electron) * (identity element) , (chiefly matrices) (l)See also
{{Letter , page=E , NATO=Echo , Morse=· , Character=E5 , Braille=? }}an
English
(wikipedia an)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Article
(head)Usage notes
* The article (an) is used before vowel sounds and (optionally) before silent aitches, and (a) before consonant sounds. * The various article senses of (a), all are senses of (term).Etymology 2
From (etyl) anConjunction
(English Conjunctions)- An it please you, my lord.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge , The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (Original Version of 1797) 61-64:
- At length did cross an Albatross, Thorough the Fog it came; And an it were a Christian Soul, We hail'd it in God's Name.
Etymology 3
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From the (etyl) preposition an/on.Preposition
(English prepositions)- I was only going twenty miles an hour.