Sn Definition & Meaning

American

British

Etymology

Examples

Sn 1 American Symbol, Chemistry.

1. tin.

SN 2 American

abbreviation

1. Secretary of the Navy.

2. Also sn, s/n screen name.

SN 1 British

abbreviation

1. Senegal (international car registration)

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symbol

1. tin

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abbreviation

1. Senegal

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Etymology

Origin of Sn

From the Latin word stannum

Example Sentences

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“Professor, I think — I know — that Sn — that someone’s going to try and steal the Stone. I’ve got to talk to Professor Dumbledore.”

From Literature

Sn is a set of independent operations from which a group G is generated.

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The emigration took place, he says, at a time when a Danish king, by name Sn�, ruled, and when there occurred a terrible famine.

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Segel said one day to Derrick Sn�sel: "What's to be done now, I wonder; the squire tells me to do one thing, and the bailiff tells me to do another."

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C, Si, Ge, Zr, Th, tetravalent; Ti, tetravalent and hexavalent; Sn, Pb, divalent and tetravalent; Ce, trivalent and tetravalent.

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