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D

Pronunciation: /diː/

The English word “D” has 9 meanings listed here.

numeral

  1. The fourth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.

noun

  1. Canonical decomposition
  2. The semicircle on the baulk line, inside which the cue ball must be placed at a break-off.
  3. The penalty arc on a football pitch.
  4. The penalty arc on a hockey field.
  5. A grade awarded for a class, better than outright failure (which can be F or E depending on the institution) and worse than a C.

proper noun

  1. The City of Detroit.
  2. A programming language inspired from C++.

interjection

  1. Damn.

Etymology

From Old English D, a 7th century replacement by Latin upper case letter D of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛞ (d, “daeg”).

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