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Princeton's WordNet

  1. joule, J, watt secondnoun

    a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second

  2. J, jnoun

    the 10th letter of the Roman alphabet

Wiktionary

  1. jnoun

    A term for a marijuana cigarette ('joint').

    I stepped outside to smoke myself a J. uE000166815uE001 Paul Simon, from the song "Late in the Evening"

  2. jnoun

    An alternative version of i, the positive square root of -1; used in the context of electronics.

  3. jnoun

    The second unit vector, after i

  4. Jnoun

    Journal

    I stepped outside to smoke myself a J. uE000166815uE001 Paul Simon, from the song "Late in the Evening"

  5. Jnoun

    As a prefix, Japanese (J-pop, J-rock, J-drama, etc.).

  6. Jnoun

    Judge or justice, used after a name (plural JJ).

  7. Jnoun

    A programming language developed by Microsoft that is a nonstandard variant of Java.

  8. Etymology: From Java and C++.

Wikipedia

  1. J

    J is the tenth letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its usual name in English is jay (pronounced ), with a now-uncommon variant jy . When used in the International Phonetic Alphabet for the y sound, it may be called yod (pronounced or ).

ChatGPT

  1. j

    The letter 'j' can represent a number of things based on the context. Here's a general definition: 1) In English alphabet, 'j' is the tenth letter. 2) In Mathematics or Physics, 'j' is often used to represent a variable or a unit vector. 3) In electrical engineering, 'j' is often used as an operator to represent an imaginary number. 4) In computing, 'j' can be a string character or refer to a programming language named "J".

Webster Dictionary

  1. J

    j is the tenth letter of the English alphabet. It is a later variant form of the Roman letter I, used to express a consonantal sound, that is, originally, the sound of English y in yet. The forms J and I have, until a recent time, been classed together, and they have been used interchangeably

Wikidata

  1. J

    J is the tenth letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its normal name in English is jay or jy; when used for the y sound, it may be called yod.

The Standard Electrical Dictionary

  1. J

    Symbol for the unit joule, the unit of electric energy.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'J' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4092

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of J in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of J in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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