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s | macadam |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a proper noun macadam is

.

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 ----

    macadam

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The surface of a road consisting of layers of crushed stone (usually tar-coated for modern traffic).
  • (US, dated, countable) Any road or street

    • Related terms

    * (materials) asphalt, brick, cobbles, gravel, tar * (features and construction techniques) crown, crowning, dusting, paving, rolled, subgrade * (equipment and tools) bulldozer, dump truck, grader, pan, roller, sheepfooter, steamroller * (road surface types) cobblestone, dirt, gravel, hardtop, tarmac, tarmacadam * (vias) highway, road, street

    Verb

  • To cover or surface with macadam.

    • See also

    * asphalt * English eponyms