A
A battery, a vacuum tube filament type battery; A battery (size), a standard battery size Anode, an electrode; A, historical symbol for chemical element argon, currently Ar; The center of a hexagonal face of the Brillouin zone of a hexagonal lattice, in physics; Arts and media Books "A", a major poem by twentieth century author Louis Zukofsky; a, A Novel, by twentieth century artist Andy Warhol The definition of A is not any particular or certain one of a class or group. See additional meanings and similar words.
a. 1. Used in the dividend column of stock transaction tables in newspapers to indicate a cash payment in addition to regular dividends during the year: 2.75a. 2. Used in money market mutual fund transaction tables in newspapers to indicate a yield that may include capital gains and losses as well as current interest: AmCap Reserv a. With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
