Meaning

1 senses
  1. Abbreviation of Rex (“King”) or Regina (“Queen”), the initial by which a British monarch signs documents after his or her name.

    The Crown, the government of a monarchy.

    The English case of R v R [1992] AC 599 ruled that rape can be committed by a husband against his wife.

More definitions
  • the 18th letter of the Roman alphabet
  • the length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere
  • the 18th letter of the Roman alphabet
  • a unit of radiation exposure; the dose of ionizing radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of electricity in 1 cc of dry air

Examples

108 sentences
  1. I like R&B.

    Я люблю ритм-енд-блюз. — deniko

    ruЯ люблю ар-н-би. — sharptoothed

    deIch mag R&B. — fendtwick

  2. Your résumé has a lot of spelling errors.

  3. At school, students learn the three R's.

  4. The public school system was founded firmly upon the three R’s.

  5. Later, I sold them and I was able to buy R. Burton's Historical Collections.

Origin

Abbreviations.

Abbreviations.

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Forms

plural: Rs
SingularR
PluralRs

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere:radius
  • a unit of radiation exposure; the dose of ionizing radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of electricity in 1 cc of dry air:roentgen
  • (physics) the universal constant in the gas equation: pressure times volume = R times temperature; equal to 8.3143 joules per kelvin per mole:gas constantuniversal gas constant

See also

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