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:
“Whither goest thou?”
—Bible: New Testament Peter, in John, 13:36.
The words, which are repeated in John 16:5, are best known in the Latin form in which they appear in the Vulgate: Quo vadis? Jesus replies, “Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.”
“Where liberty dwells there is my country.”
—Anonymous. Latin phrase.
Adopted as a motto by U.S. patriot and orator James Otis (1725-1783)
“She’s a Latin from Manhattan.”
—Al Dubin (1891–1945)