F

The sixth letter of the Latin alphabet, F developed from the digraph FH that stood for /f/. The Etruscans were the inventors of this digraph; F on its own stood for /w/ in Etruscan as in Greek (where the letter F,called Digamma in Greek, has disappeared due to the fact that the /w/ phoneme itself disappeared.) The origin of F is the Semitic letter wâw that also represented /w/ and originally probably represented a hook or a club. Foxtrot represents the letter F in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

Meanings for F

\n* In biochemistry, F is the symbol for phenylalanine.\n* In calendars, F is often an abbreviation for Friday, or for the month February.\n* In chemistry, F is the symbol for fluorine.\n* In education, F is a failing grade\n* In financial securities, F is the stock symbol for Ford Motor Company\n* In grammar, f is often an abbreviation for the female grammatical gender

• In information systems, F is often used as an abbreviation for the female sex in personal data records.\n* In international licence plate codes, F stands for France.\n* In mathematics, F is often used as a digit meaning fifteen in hexadecimal and other positional numeral systems with a radix of 16 or greater.\n* In the Metric system, \n**F is the symbol for farad, the SI derived unit for electric capacitance.\n**f, femto, is the SI prefix meaning 10^-15.\n* In music, F is a note.\n* In physics, f often is the variable for frequency\n* In radiocommunication, F is one of the ITU prefixes allocated to France.\n* In temperature, ºF is degrees Fahrenheit.

Two-letter combinations starting with F:\n*fa fb fc fd fe ff fg fh fi fj fk fl fm fn fo fp fq fr fs ft fu fv fw fx fy fz