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s | shrapnel |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun shrapnel is

(historical) an anti-personnel artillery shell used in wwi which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.

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

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    shrapnel

    English

    (wikipedia shrapnel)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (historical) An anti-personnel artillery shell used in WWI which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.
  • A collective term for shot, fragments, or debris thrown out by an exploding shell or landmine.
  • (slang) Loose change.
  • debris caused by action of persons or animals.
    • The dog did not eat my sandwich. It was in a bag. If he had eaten my sandwich, there'd be shrapnel all over the place from him tearing open the bag.