Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun f

4 senses of f

Sense 1
degree Fahrenheit, F -- (a degree on the Fahrenheit scale of temperature)
       => degree -- (a unit of temperature on a specified scale; "the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature")

Sense 2
fluorine, F, atomic number 9 -- (a nonmetallic univalent element belonging to the halogens; usually a yellow irritating toxic flammable gas; a powerful oxidizing agent; recovered from fluorite or cryolite or fluorapatite)
       => 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)
       => gas -- (a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely)
       => halogen -- (any of five related nonmetallic elements (fluorine or chlorine or bromine or iodine or astatine) that are all monovalent and readily form negative ions)

Sense 3
farad, F -- (the capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates)
       => capacitance unit -- (a measure of the capacity of a circuit component to store charge)

Sense 4
F, f -- (the 6th letter of the Roman alphabet)
       => letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character -- (the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters")