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stricture | x |

As a noun stricture

is (usually in plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

stricture

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (usually in plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action
    • For them, parity is less an ultimate goal than a transitory and permissive springboard for testing Western resolve and pursuing whatever additional accretions of strategic power the strictures of SALT and American tolerance will allow.
  • a sternly critical remark or review
  • (medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body
  • (obsolete) strictness
    • A man of stricture and firm abstinence. — Shakespeare.
  • (obsolete) a stroke; a glance; a touch
  • (linguistics) the degree of contact, in consonants

    • Related terms

    * constriction * strict * stringent

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----