X, 24th letter of the alphabet. In English it has no peculiar sound, but stands for the combination ks as in fox, or gz as in exempt, or, initially, for the sound of z as in xenia. In words from Greek, x transliterates the 14th Greek letter, xi, a letter perhaps quite unrelated...
As one of the most versatile and ubiquitous letters in the English alphabet, the letter "x" has evolvedover time to serve a variety of functions, from mathematical symbols to phonetic representations. The origins of the letter "x" can be traced back to the ancient Greek alphabet, where it ...
1.(Linguistics) the 24th letter and 19th consonant of the modern English alphabet 2.(Phonetics & Phonology) a speech sound sequence represented by this letter, in English pronounced asksorgzor, in initial position,z,as inxylophone x symbol for ...
(Letters of the Alphabet (Foreign)) the 14th letter in the Greek alphabet (Ξ, ξ), a composite consonant, transliterated asx Xi (ʃiː) , Hsi or Si n (Placename) a river in S China, rising in Yunnan province and flowing east to the Canton delta on the South China Sea: the ...
根据文中 “One theory says that the Arabic word used for the quantity being sought was al - shayun... They represented this sound by the Greek letter 'x', which later became the Latin 'x'.” 可知,al - shayun 与数学中的 “x” 是有关系的。文中未提及 al - shayun 是阿拉伯语中最...
22nd letter of the Greek alphabet, representing a -kh- sound (seech). The letter is shaped like an X, and so the Greek letter name was used figuratively to signify such a shape or arrangement (as inkhiasma"two things placed crosswise;"khiastos"arranged diagonally; marked with an X;"khi...
/ eks; Zks/ n (pl X's, x's / 5eksIz; `ZksIz/) the twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet 表的第二十四个字母: `Xylophone' begins with (an) X/`X'. xylophone一字以x字母开始.X chromosome (biology 生) chromosome that occurs as one of an identical pair in female ...
In Alpha Flight (Vol. 2) #1 (August, 1997), when part of Department H, Wolverine was given a codename based on the Greek alphabet as Weapon X or "Chi." The letter "X" in the Greek alphabet is called "chi" and is written exactly like the "X" (ex) of the English alphabet. The...
Over the years, Marvel Comics and its mutant characters have attempted to do that with a decades-old classification system based on the Greek alphabet. Until recently, this mutant classification system wasn't particularly formalized within Marvel comic book continuity. Sometimes 'Alpha' was used to...
http://itspronouncedmetrosexual.com/2013/01/a-comprehensive-list-of-lgbtq-term-definitions/#sthash.CF50tz9Z.dpbs (a guide to the alphabet soup) http://www.annelawrence.com/mtimb.html reference for Men Trapped in Men’s Bodies: Narratives of Autogynephiliac Transsexualism, book by Anne Lawrenc...