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1. Physics Hamiltonian
2. Physics henry
4. Baseball hit
5. home telephone number
h 1or H (āch)
n. pl. h's or H's also hs or Hs
1. The eighth letter of the modern English alphabet.
2. Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter h.
3. The eighth in a series.
4. Something shaped like the letter H.
The symbol for Planck's constant.
n, pl h's, H's or Hs
1. (Linguistics) the eighth letter and sixth consonant of the modern English alphabet
2. (Phonetics & Phonology) a speech sound represented by this letter, in English usually a voiceless glottal fricative, as in hat
a. something shaped like an H
b. (in combination): an H-beam.
1. (General Physics) physics Planck constant
2. (Units) hecto-
3. (Chess & Draughts) chess See algebraic notation
1. (Elements & Compounds) chem hydrogen
2. (General Physics) physics
a. magnetic field strength
3. (Electronics) electronics henry or henries
4. (General Physics) thermodynamics enthalpy
5. (Art Terms) (on Brit pencils, signifying degree of hardness of lead) hard: H; 2H; 3H. Compare B9
6. (Pharmacology) slang heroin
(Automotive Engineering) Hungary (international car registration)
n., pl. Hs H's, hs h's.
1. the eighth letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
2. any spoken sound represented by this letter.
3. something shaped like an H.
4. a written or printed representation of the letter H or h.
5. Slang. heroin.
1. the eighth in order or in a series.
b. magnetic intensity.
4. heavy sea.
8. Baseball. hit.
The symbol for hydrogen.
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|Noun||1.||H - a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the universe|
tritium - a radioactive isotope of hydrogen; atoms of tritium have three times the mass of ordinary hydrogen atoms
chemical element, element - any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter
H2O, water - binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
gas - a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely
|2.||H - a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second|
inductance unit - a measure of the property of an electric circuit by which an electromotive force is induced in it
abhenry - a unit of inductance equal to one billionth of a henry
millihenry - a unit of inductance equal to one thousandth of a henry
|3.||h - the constant of proportionality relating the energy of a photon to its frequency; approximately 6.626 x 10^-34 joule-second|
|4.||h - the 8th letter of the Roman alphabet|
Latin alphabet, Roman alphabet - the alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe
|5.||H - (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity equal to the internal energy of a system plus the product of its volume and pressure; "enthalpy is the amount of energy in a system capable of doing mechanical work"|
physical property - any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions
thermodynamics - the branch of physics concerned with the conversion of different forms of energy