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S vs Stadial - What's the difference?

s | stadial |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As an adjective stadial is

(geology) pertaining to a glacial stade.

As a noun stadial is

(geology) a short, colder period within an interglacial; a stade.

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 ----

    stadial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (geology) Pertaining to a glacial stade.
  • (archaeology, sociology) Pertaining to or existing in successive stages of a given culture, society etc.
  • *2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 188:
  • *:He drew on the growing ethnographic record contained in travellers' tales about extra-European societies to develop a stadial view of human evolution according to which each society passed through the stages of hunting, pastoral life, farming and trading – a schema which had no place for scriptural precept.

    • Noun

    (wikipedia stadial) (en noun)
  • (geology) A short, colder period within an interglacial; a stade.