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Learn to pronounce a

/ə,ā/
determiner
  1. used when referring to someone or something for the first time in a text or conversation.
    "a man came out of the room"
  2. used to indicate membership of a class of people or things.
    "he is a lawyer"
  3. used when expressing rates or ratios; in, to, or for each; per.
    "typing 60 words a minute"

A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide.

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A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is a, plural aes. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it... Wikipedia
Alphabetical position: 1
Descendants: > Æ; Ä; Â; Ɑ; Ʌ; Ɐ; ª; Å; ₳; @; Ⓐ; ⓐ; ⒜; 🅰
Language of origin: Latin language
Other letters commonly used with: a(x), ae, eau, au
Phonetic usage: ; /eɪ/
Writing direction: Left-to-right

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... A generalization of the exponen- tial density with a mode usually at some strictly positive number m is the Gamma distribution . It includes the exponential as ...
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(A.D. 1450-1880) George Grove. ' GUZLA . A kind of rebab , a bow instrument. In Madeira , after work in the vineyards is done for the day , the country people ...
... a force is represented by 32.18 . when a second , a foot , and a pound are the units of time , length , and mass respectively : what will be the measure of ...
... a drum . and a fife , at the expence of the commissioned officers thereof . And whereas it is or may be necessary that some troops of horse and companies of ...
capitalized : the one of the four ABO blood groups characterized by the presence of antigens designated by the letter A and by the presence of antibodies ...
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Posted: Aug 18, 2010