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S vs Micron - What's the difference?

s | micron |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun micron is

micron, micrometer.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    micron

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (physics) A unit of length; the thousandth part of one millimeter; the millionth part of a meter.
  • * 2009 , Jonathan Amos, (bbc.co.uk) Satellites weigh California water
    • As one spacecraft lurches and drags through the Earth's uneven gravity field, the second follows 210 km behind, measuring changes in their separation to the nearest micron (a thousandth of a millimetre).

    Synonyms

    * micrometre, micrometer

    Derived terms

    * micronise, micronize ----