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s | thousand |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a numeral thousand is

(cardinal) a numerical value equal to = 10 × 100 = 103.

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=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 ----

    thousand

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Arabic numerals: (see for numerical forms in other scripts) * Roman numerals: M * ISO prefix: kilo- * Exponential notation: 103

    Numeral

    (en noun)
  • (cardinal) A numerical value equal to = 10 × 100 = 103
    • The company earned fifty thousand dollars last month.
    Many thousands of people came to the conference.

    Usage notes

    Unlike cardinal numerals up to ninety-nine'', the word ''thousand'' is a noun like ''dozen and needs a determiner to function as a numeral. * a thousand''' men / one '''thousand''' men / the '''thousand men * compare a dozen men / one dozen men / the dozen men * compare ten men / the ten men Thousand'' can be used also in plurals. It doesn't take ''-s when preceded by a determiner. * two thousand''' men / some '''thousand men * thousands''' of men / hundreds of '''thousands of men

    Synonyms

    * (numerical) a thousand, one thousand *

    Derived terms

    * hundreds and thousands, mother of thousands, Thousand Islands, thousandfold, thousandth, thousandaire

    See also

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    Anagrams

    * * English numerals