Obelisk vs X - What's the difference?
obelisk | x |
A tall, square, tapered, stone monolith topped with a pyramidal point, frequently used as a monument.
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(printing) The dagger sign (†), especially when used as a reference mark.
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
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
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As a noun obelisk
is obelisk (a tall, square, tapered, stone monolith topped with a pyramidal point).As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.obelisk
English
(wikipedia obelisk)Alternative forms
* obeliscNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=The Washington Monument is often described as an obelisk', and sometimes even as a “true '''obelisk''',” even though it is not. A true ' obelisk is a monolith, a pylon formed out of a single piece of stone.}}