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O 1Definition: O, the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, derives its form, value, and name from the Greek O, through the Latin. The letter came into the Greek from the Ph/nician, which possibly derived it ultimately from the Egyptian. Etymologically, the letter o is most closely related to a, e, and u; as in E. bone, AS. ban; E. stone, AS. stan; E. broke, AS. brecan to break; E. bore, AS. beran to bear; E. dove, AS. d/fe; E. toft, tuft; tone, tune; number, F. nombre.
O 2Definition: Among the ancients, O was a mark of triple time, from the notion that the ternary, or number is the most perfect of numbers, and properly expressed by a circle, the most perfect figure. O 3Definition: The letter O, or its sound. O 4Definition: Something shaped like the letter O; a circle or oval. O 5Definition: A cipher; zero. O 6Definition: One. O 7Definition: An exclamation used in calling or directly addressing a person or personified object; also, as an emotional or impassioned exclamation expressing pain, grief, surprise, desire, fear, etc. O 8Definition: the 15th letter of the Roman alphabet O 9Definition: the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens; "people with type O blood are universal donors" O 10Definition: a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth''s crust
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