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S vs Effacement - What's the difference?

s | effacement |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun effacement is

the act of expunging, of wiping out; expungement.

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 ----

    effacement

    English

    (wikipedia effacement)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of expunging, of wiping out; expungement.
  • Withdrawal in order to make oneself inconspicuous; the making of oneself inconspicuous.
  • * 2007 , John Zerzan, Silence , page 3:
    • Native Americans seem to have always placed great value on silence and direct experience, and in indigenous cultures in general, silence denotes respect and self-effacement .
  • (medicine) A shortening, or thinning, of the cervix before or during early labour.