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S vs Eidolon - What's the difference?

s | eidolon |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun eidolon is

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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=··· , 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 ----

    eidolon

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An image or representation of an idea; a representation of an ideal form; an apparition of some actual or imaginary entity, or of some aspect of reality.
  • * 1936 , (Henry Miller), Black Spring :
    • As a species it is extinct; as an eidolon it retains its corporeality – but only if maintained in a state of equipoise.
  • *1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 21:
  • *:It was not hard to forge her image, her "eidolon ", in the grey gloom of the little church.
  • * 2006 , (Thomas Pynchon), Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 697:
    • Kit was sitting up staring into the dark at this eidolon , inelegantly turned out contrary to a whole raft of public-decency statutes, which had come monitory and breathing in to violate Kit's insomnia.
  • A phantom, a ghost or elusive entity.