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An elite organization within the Nazi party that served as Hitler's personal guard and included police units and special forces, carrying out mass killings of civilians and overseeing concentration camps.

S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its name in English is ess (pronounced ), plural esses.

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The nineteenth letter of the alphabet.

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A shape like that of a capital S

The United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors; detects and apprehends counterfeiters; suppresses forgery of government securities and documents

The 19th letter of the modern English alphabet.

Special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps

Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter s.

The 19th in a series.

Something shaped like the letter S.

(metrology) scruple {{qualifier}}

(physics) strange quark

Alternative form of s.

The nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a consonant, and is often called a sibilant, in allusion to its hissing sound. It has two principal sounds; one a mere hissing, as in sack, this; the other a vocal hissing (the same as that of z), as in is, wise. Besides these it sometimes has the sounds of sh and zh, as in sure, measure. It generally has its hissing sound at the beginning of words, but in the middle and at the end of words its sound is determined by usage. In a few words it is silent, as in isle, débris. With the letter h it forms the digraph sh. See Guide to pronunciation, 255-261.

1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

An abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions)

The cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees

A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm

The 19th letter of the Roman alphabet

(thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work;