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eureka | x |

As a proper noun eureka

is a city in northern california.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

eureka

English

Interjection

(wikipedia eureka) (en interjection)
  • An exclamation indicating sudden discovery.
  • * 1821': '''Eureka! I have found it! What I mean / To say is, not that love is idleness, / But that in love such idleness has been / An accessory, as I have cause to guess. — Byron, ''Don Juan, 1821
  • * 1970': A page is turned - '''eureka , a snatch of tune / is playing itself, the piss-proud syllables / are unveiling a difficult prosody — Peter Porter, The Sanitized Sonnets, in ''The Last of England, 1970
    • Derived terms
    * eureka effect * eureka moment

    See also

    * aha moment * epiphany ----

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----