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S vs Degeneration - What's the difference?

s | degeneration |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun degeneration is

degeneration, morbidity.

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 ----

    degeneration

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
  • * 1913, B. H. Carrol, An Interpretation of the English Bible ,
    • The modern cry of "more liberty and less creed" is a degeneration from a vertebrate to a jellyfish.
  • (uncountable) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure.
    • fatty degeneration of the liver
  • (uncountable) Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
  • (countable) A thing that has degenerated.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • cockle, aracus, and other degenerations

    Synonyms

    * (process or state of growing worse) decline, degradation, debasement,degeneracy, deterioration

    Related terms

    * degenerate