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S vs Abscission - What's the difference?

s | abscission |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun abscission is

the act or process of cutting off.

s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

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 ----

    abscission

    English

    (wikipedia abscission)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of cutting off.
  • * 1859 , , The sermons of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: Complete in one volume , page 286:
    • Not to be cured without the abscission of a member.
  • (obsolete) The state of being cut off.
  • (rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
  • (botany) The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole.

    • Usage notes

    Not to be confused with abscision, which only is defined as the first sense.

    Related terms

    * abscise * abscisic * abscisic acid * abscisin, abscissin

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