X

X
A B C D E F G
H I J K L M N
O P Q R S T U
V W X Y Z
Å ? Ø
Digraphs
CH ? ? ? ? LL ?
Additional letters
Æ ? ? Ð ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ?
? Þ ?

Synopsis

Linguistics

  • X ("iks") is the 24E and 19E of.
  • X can decide [ ks ] (as in taxi), [ gz ] (as in xylophone), [ Z ] (as in tenth), [ S ] (as in ten) and even [ K ] in xhosa.
  • X , preceding it H, a particular pronunciation in toponymy and French of the area has of , in . In this area located near Germanic areas of languages, which generated a vocabulary and a specific pronunciation, it X is sometimes placed in front of one H aspired or fricative. The use would come from the arrived administration of time from the French occupation (-), which had taken the practice to put a cross in front of H aspired proper names. For others, it would act of a specificity of writes , appeared about 1350. Certain words however did not keep this practice (ex: Herstal). The traditional pronunciation has tendency to be lost, and it X is henceforth regularly marked.

Arts and culture

The letter "X" is very much used in the popular culture because it implies a context of mystery and/or science fiction.

Music

  • X is the name of a group American of .
  • X is also the preceding name of the group X Japan
  • Planet X is a group of instrumental.
  • Symphony X is a group of .
  • X is a piece of Xzibit.
  • Factor X (or Factor X) is a group of joining together Ol Kainry, Jango Jack and Kamnouze.

Cinema

  • X indicate the classification allotted to films prohibited with less than eighteen years in France, considered as or putting in scene violences or bearing reached at human dignity.
  • X is one cartoon film of Rintaro left in , according to the manga of .

Television

Video games

  • Megaman X is a series of the frankness Megaman.

Photographs

  • X is an exact time in the sychronisation of the flash.

Band-drawn

  • X-Men is a series of created by and .
  • X is one of , whose publication started in .

Sciences

Mathematics

  • X is the name owing to lack of one unknown factor.
  • X is used to indicate the X-coordinate of a point, or the first co-ordinate of one .
  • <maths>\bar{x}</maths> is used to indicate .

Physics - chemistry

  • were named thus because it acted of a radiation hitherto unknown.
  • X is the variable allotted to reactance.

Astronomy

  • In , it X show that the planet was discovered between 1er and it .

Biology

  • "X" is also the name of one of both sexual of the human genome.

Data processing

Others

Practical life

  • Épellation
    • international: X-ray
    • : Xanthippe
  • Significance in Roman numerals : 10
  • X, because of its pronunciation the extra one is the abbreviation (for example: XL for extra-broad)

Current expressions

  • A person born under X is a person of which one of the parents at least did not recognize the child;
  • "Mr X" designates an unknown person or one quidam ; for example, in the expressions
The English equivalent is .

Others

  • In English, the letter X is used sometimes as abbreviation for the word cross (cross-country race), and by for Christ, as in X-farmhouse, abbreviation of the English word Christmas ().
  • In old texts, X can be used as abbreviation at the month of in form Xbre
  • generation X nominate the persons born in and .
  • X is the nickname of in France.
  • Amateurs of the radio station CHOI Radio operator X of Quebec indicate themselves as being X.

See too

  • in which letter X is worth "- * * -"
 

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