E vs Seaman - What's the difference?
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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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A mariner or sailor, one who mans a ship. Opposed to landman or landsman.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
, title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered
, volume=100, issue=2, page=87
, magazine=
(British, Navy) The lowest ranking in the Navy, below Able Seaman.
(US, Navy) An enlisted rate in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking below petty officer third class and above seaman apprentice.
A merman; the male of the mermaid.
As a letter e
is the letter e with a circumflex.As a noun seaman is
a mariner or sailor, one who mans a ship opposed to landman or landsman.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=? }}seaman
English
Noun
(seamen)citation, passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen ? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}
- Not to mention mermaids or seamen. — .
