HS
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
HS
- Initialism of high school.
- Synonym: H. S.
- Initialism of health system.
- (ski jumping) Initialism of hill size.
Adverb[edit]
HS (not comparable)
- (medicine, pharmacology) Initialism of half strength.
- (medicine, pharmacology) Initialism of hora somni (“literally, hour of sleep; at bedtime”).. From Latin hora somni
Adjective[edit]
HS (not comparable)
Anagrams[edit]
Finnish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
HS
- Initialism of Helsingin Sanomat (the leading newspaper in Finland)
- Synonym: Hesari
Declension[edit]
Declension of HS (type koira)
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French[edit]
Adjective[edit]
HS (invariable)
- Initialism of hors-service.
- Initialism of hors sujet. (off-topic, irrelevant)
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From a shortening of II S where II is 2 in Roman numerals and S stands for sēmis (“half”). This is because a sesterce was worth 2 and a half asses.
Symbol[edit]
HS
- The symbol used to precede a number to indicate that the number is a value in sesterces.
References[edit]
- “HS”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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