last day of the week the 19th letter of the English alphabet compass direction which is the opposite of north first day of the week 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work; "entropy increases as matter and energy in the universe degrade to an ultimate state of inert uniformity" the 19th letter of the Roman alphabet a unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions) 19th letter of the English alphabet An adverbial suffix; as in towards, needs, always, originally the genitive, possesive, ending The suffix used to form the third person singular indicative of English verbs; as in falls, tells, sends The suffix used to form the plural of most words; as in roads, elfs, sides, accounts With the letter h it forms the digraph sh the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a consonant, and is often called a sibilant, in allusion to its hissing sound It has two principal sounds; one a mere hissing, as in sack, this; the other a vocal hissing (the same as that of z), as in is, wise In a few words it is silent, as in isle, débris It generally has its hissing sound at the beginning of words, but in the middle and at the end of words its sound is determined by usage Besides these it sometimes has the sounds of sh and zh, as in sure, measure A contraction for is or (colloquially) for has