Latin
Å — angstrom
A — ampere, area, a blood type, a spectral type, vector potential, Work
B — B meson, a blood type, boron, luminance, magnetic field, a spectral type
C — carbon, degrees Celsius, set of complex numbers, coulomb, molar heat capacity, the C programming language, specific heat capacity, Cunningham correction factor
D — deuterium, differential operator, electric displacement
E — electric field, energy, SI prefix exa–, expected value
F — degrees Fahrenheit, farad, fluorine, force, Helmholtz free energy, a spectral type
G — Einstein tensor, SI prefix giga–, Gibbs free energy, gravitational constant, Green's function, Momentum, a Spectral type
H — auxiliary magnetic field, enthalpy, Hamiltonian, Hankel function, Heaviside step function, henry, Higgs boson, homology group, Hubble constant, hydrogen, set of quaternions
I — current, iodine, impulse, luminous intensity, moment of inertia
J — angular momentum, Bessel function of the first kind, current, joule
K — kaon, kelvin, potassium, sectional curvature, a spectral type
L — angular momentum, inductance, Lagrangian, litre, a spectral type
M — magnetization, mass, SI prefix mega–, a spectral type, torque
N — Avogadro's number, Bessel function of the second kind, set of natural numbers, newton, nitrogen, normal distribution, normal vector
O — big O notation, a blood type, oxygen, a spectral type
P — Legendre polynomial, luminous flux, phosphorus, polarization, power, pressure, probability, projection
Q — electric charge, quantity of heat, set of rational numbers, flow rate
R — curvature tensor, electrical resistance, radius, set of real numbers
S — area, entropy, siemens, sphere, spin operator, sulfur, symmetric group
T — a spectral type, temperature, tesla, tritium
U — potential energy, uranium, unitary operator
V — potential energy, vanadium, volt, voltage, volume
W — energy, Lambert's W function, tungsten, watt, W boson, Work, work function, Wiener process
X — random variable, abscissa
Y — Bessel function of the second kind, SI prefix yotta–, yttrium, ordinate, luminance
Z — atomic number, impedance, set of integers, partition function (statistical mechanics), partition function (quantum field theory), Z boson, SI prefix zetta–, altitude
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Famous quotes containing the word latin:
“What’s the Latin name for ‘parsley’?
What’s the Greek name for Swine’s Snout?”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)
“There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring ‘em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifry.”
—Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)
“In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul as I have avails. If I am wilful, he sets his will against mine, one for one, and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength. But if I renounce my will, and act for the soul, setting that up as umpire between us two, out of his young eyes looks the same soul; he reveres and loves with me.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)