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The letter F is the sixth letter in the Latin alphabet.
History
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.
The miniscule f is not to be confused with ſ, the archaic long s (or medial s). For example, "sinfulness" is rendered as "ſinfulneſs" using the long s. The use of the long s died out by the end of the 19th century, largely to prevent confusion with f.
Alternate representations
Foxtrot represents the letter F in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
In international Morse code the letter F is DitDitDahDit: · · - ·
In Braille the letter F is represented as ⠋ (in Unicode), the dot pattern,
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Computing
In Unicode the capital F is codepoint U+0046 and the lowercase f is U+0066.
The ASCII code for capital F is 70 and for lowercase f is 102; or in binary 01000110 and 01100110, correspondingly.
The EBCDIC code for capital F is 198 and for lowercase f is 134.
The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "F" and "f" for upper and lower case respectively.
Ligatures
In formal typography, particularly for serifed fonts, minuscule f is one of the most commonly ligated letters.
Meanings for F
- In the atmosphere of Earth, the F layer is part of the ionosphere.
- In biochemistry, F is the symbol for phenylalanine.
- In calendars, F is often an abbreviation for Friday, or for the month February.
- In chemistry, F is the symbol for fluorine.
- In education, F is a failing grade
- In financial securities, F is the stock symbol for Ford Motor Company
- 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.
- In international licence plate codes, F stands for France.
- 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.
- In the Metric system,
- In music,
- In photography, F is the focal length (cf. F-number).
- In physics, F is usually the Faraday constant. f is sometimes the variable for frequency
- In printing, f. is an abbreviation for folio (page in a book), although it is more common to see ff. as the plural form.
- In propositional logic F is the symbol for false.
- In radiocommunication, F is one of the ITU prefixes allocated to France.
- In temperature, ºF is degrees Fahrenheit.
See also
Two-letter combinations starting with F:
af:F ar:F bs:F ca:F cs:F da:F de:F el:F eo:F es:F fr:F he:F hi:F it:F ia:F ja:F ko:F la:F nl:F pl:F pt:F ro:F ru:F sl:F sv:F vi:F zh:F
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