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S vs Extremophile - What's the difference?

s | extremophile |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As an adjective extremophile is

extremophile.

As a noun extremophile is

extremophile.

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=··· , 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 ----

    extremophile

    English

    (wikipedia extremophile)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biology) An organism that lives under extreme conditions of temperature, salinity etc; commercially important as a source of enzymes that operate under similar conditions.
  • * 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA, p. 207:
    • They had found the world's first extremophiles – organisms that could live in water that had previously been assumed to be much too hot or acid or choked with sulphur to bear life.

    See also

    * acidophile * alkaliphile * barophile / piezophile * halophile * hyperthermophile * mesophile * microaerophile * polyextremophile * psychrophile * thermophile