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X¹

  • /ɛks/ letter, name
  • /ks/
  • /ɡz/
  • /kʃ/
  • /ɡʒ/
  • /z/
  • /ʃ/

Sounds like Exe · Rhymes with -ɛks

Where it comes from

Introduced by René Descartes in the context of mathematical notation, but has since widened to other contexts.

number

  1. An unknown quantity or unknown value. Let X represent the forecast traffic flow in 20 years’ time.

proper noun

  1. A placeholder for an unknown, suppressed or hypothetical name. The woman known until now as Witness X has been unmasked after a court ruling.
  2. A surname, used by those who have had their identity or heritage, including their proper ancestral names, erased or forgotten. Malcolm X
  3. An online social media network, formerly known as Twitter. Two senior USAid security officials were suspended on Sunday for blocking Doge officials from a restricted area, a day after the agency’s website went offline, and Musk posted to X that USAid was “beyond repair” and needed to be shut down.

X²

  • /ɛks/ letter, name
  • /ks/
  • /ɡz/
  • /kʃ/
  • /ɡʒ/
  • /z/
  • /ʃ/

Sounds like Exe · Rhymes with -ɛks

letter x · Xs · X's

  1. letter, uppercase The twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet, called ex and written in the Latin script.

noun

  1. Any mark that looks like that letter, such as a mark made by a person who cannot read or write in lieu of a signature.
  2. The spot behind the goal.

adjective

  1. not comparable Intersex or non-binary (in passports and identification documents). So last summer, when the Massachusetts State Legislature became one of the first in the nation to consider a bill to add an “X” option for nonbinary genders to the “M” and “F” on the state driver’s license, El, 17, was less surprised than some at the maneuver that effectively killed it.

verb Xs · Xing · Xed

  1. alternative Alternative spelling of ex (“to delete; to cross out”).ex I Xed the ballot for our Congressman last election just because he seemed […]

X³

  • /ɛks/ letter, name
  • /ks/
  • /ɡz/
  • /kʃ/
  • /ɡʒ/
  • /z/
  • /ʃ/

Sounds like Exe · Rhymes with -ɛks

Where it comes from

Presumably by abbreviation of the pronunciation of ecstasy.

noun

  1. slang, uncountable Ecstasy, a particular street drug. You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub'. Look, mami, I got the X if you into takin' drugs.

X⁴

  • /ɛks/ letter, name
  • /ks/
  • /ɡz/
  • /kʃ/
  • /ɡʒ/
  • /z/
  • /ʃ/

Sounds like Exe · Rhymes with -ɛks

adjective

  1. dated, not comparable Suitable only for those aged sixteen or (later) eighteen years and over.
  2. not comparable Obscene; adult; pornographic; XXX. If you go to an X movie you do so knowingly, as does everyone else in the audience. Or if the same thing comes up on TV you can switch over, or, if you wish, enjoy it in relative privacy.

X⁵

  • /ɛks/ letter, name
  • /ks/
  • /ɡz/
  • /kʃ/
  • /ɡʒ/
  • /z/
  • /ʃ/

Sounds like Exe · Rhymes with -ɛks

Where it comes from

From Christ by abbreviation, orthographic borrowing from Ancient Greek Χ (Kh, letter chi), from Χριστός (Khristós, “Christ”).

proper noun

  1. informal Christ

X⁶

  • /ɛks/ letter, name
  • /ks/
  • /ɡz/
  • /kʃ/
  • /ɡʒ/
  • /z/
  • /ʃ/

Sounds like Exe · Rhymes with -ɛks

Where it comes from

From cross, due to the X symbol being a cross saltire.

noun Xes

  1. Cross, crossing. Kennington via Charing X

X⁷

  • /ɛks/ letter, name
  • /ks/
  • /ɡz/
  • /kʃ/
  • /ɡʒ/
  • /z/
  • /ʃ/

Sounds like Exe · Rhymes with -ɛks

adjective more X · most X

  1. abbreviation, informal Abbreviation of extreme.extreme

X⁸

  • /ɛks/ letter, name
  • /ks/
  • /ɡz/
  • /kʃ/
  • /ɡʒ/
  • /z/
  • /ʃ/

Sounds like Exe · Rhymes with -ɛks

Where it comes from

Named after its predecessor, the W Window System; X follows W in the Latin alphabet.

proper noun

  1. Unix The X Window System, a windowing system for bitmap displays commonly used in Unix-like systems.

x⁹

  • /ɛks/ letter, name
  • /ks/
  • /ɡz/
  • /kʃ/
  • /ɡʒ/
  • /z/
  • /ʃ/

Rhymes with -ɛks

letter X · xs · x's

  1. letter, lowercase The twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet, called ex and written in the Latin script.
  2. letter, lowercase Forming gender-neutral or otherwise more inclusive versions of words, especially Spanish-derived words by replacing both the masculine -o and feminine -a. alumnx, Chicanx (Xicanx), Filipinx, Latinx, Mx, mxn, Tejanx, womxn

adjective

  1. not comparable Alternative letter-case form of X (“intersex or non-binary (in passports and identification documents)”).X

number

  1. humorous, sometimes An unknown or unspecified number of. David Cameron gives a Commons statement after every EU summit and normally they follow a predictable pattern; he says that he set out with X number of aims, and then he explains he has achieved all X of them (even if he hasn’t). The most interesting comments normally come in the exchanges with MPs.

conjunction

  1. slang Used between the names of two characters to denote a ship, particularly in anime, manga, and video games. If there is anyone in the audience who can't stand someone pushing a Shinji x Rei thing, I know you want to quit on this fic now.
  2. Used in place of and in artist collaborations. Taska Black x DROELOE, Steve Aoki x Lauren Jauregui, etc.

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