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S vs Teflon - What's the difference?

s | teflon |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun teflon is

teflon (or similar material).

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 ----

    teflon

    English

    (wikipedia Teflon)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • Multiple film, resin, coatings, fabric and surface protectors made with PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) or fluoropolymer and surfactants not made with PTFE.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (informal, of a politician) Having an undamageable reputation (by analogy with nonstick Teflon surfaces).
  • * 1995 , Liz Cunningham, Talking Politics: Choosing the President in the Television Age :
    • But Ronald Reagan, by everybody's definition, was the Teflon president, and it wasn't that the media tried to touch him and failed.

    Related terms

    * polytetrafluoroethylene

    See also

    * Gore-Tex * ePTFE