a
/ə,ā/
determiner
- used when referring to someone or something for the first time in a text or conversation."a man came out of the room"
- used to indicate membership of a class of people or things."he is a lawyer"
- used when expressing rates or ratios; in, to, or for each; per."typing 60 words a minute"
The letter Å represents various sounds in several languages. It is a separate letter in Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, North Frisian, Low Saxon, Transylvanian Saxon, Walloon, Chamorro, Lule Sami, Pite Sami, Skolt Sami, Southern Sami, Ume... Wikipedia
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.
... a definite stop occurring in the natural course of the music , and marking a period , though not in such a way as to enable the passage which it ends to be ...
... A Sifter ; Gribler , Jaffeur ; Crivellato- re , ventilatore , Cernidor . A Sifting ; Criblage , cribleure , fassement , faffure ; Crivellamento ...
... a right line , meet each other at the prop in a right Pl . 3 . angle , where AC and BC reprefent the arms of a Fig . 1 . lever united at the prop C , in fuch a ...
... a series of complications which it would require a volume to explain . It is sufficient for our purpose here to say that the final cost to the State was ...
... a standard of colours at the expence of the field officers , and each company with a drum and fife at the expence of the commissioned officers thereof VI ...
А (А а; italics: А а) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents an open central unrounded vowel /ä/, halfway between the pronunciation of ...
a feminine singular ending of nouns borrowed from Latin and Greek, also used in New Latin coinages to Latinize bases of any origin, and as a Latin substitute ...