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Twenty-fourth letter of the Latin alphabet
X is the twenty-fourth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ex, plural exes. Wikipedia →
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đź“– Definitions
Letter The twenty-fourth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
Symbol a voiceless velar fricative.
Symbol A name for an unknown variable.
Symbol The first coordinate in Cartesian coordinates, representing horizontal position.
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đź“š Books worth reading
Less than ZeroBret Easton Ellis, Christian Rummel · 1985
The First Deadly SinLawrence Sanders · 1973
Social psychologyRobert A. Baron, Donn Erwin Byrne · 1977
Mille plateauxGilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari · 1980
Practical X-ray spectrometryRon Jenkins, J.L. Devries · 1967
Generation XDouglas Coupland · 1991
One Day When I Was LostJames Baldwin · 1972
X rays and crystal structureWilliam Henry Bragg · 1915
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