Re

See also: Appendix:Variations of "re"

Translingual

Symbol

Re

  1. (chemistry) Rhenium.
  2. (mathematics) The real part of a complex number.
    Re(a + bi) = a
    Synonym: ℜ
    Coordinate terms: Im, ℑ
  3. (fluid mechanics) The Reynolds number.

English

Etymology 1
Meaning borrowed from Egyptian
r
a		 ra
 (rꜥ, “sun, Ra”), with the form of the word borrowed from Coptic ⲣⲏ (rē, “sun”).

Proper noun

Re

  1. (Egyptian mythology) Alternative form of Ra

Symbol

Re (pl Rs)

  1. rupee

Etymology 3

Clipping of reinsurance.

Proper noun

Re

  1. (in company names) Reinsurance.
    Swiss Re

Proper noun

Re

  1. A municipality of Vestfold, Norway

Anagrams

Italian

Proper noun

Re m pl (plural only)

  1. Kings, Book of Kings

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Re

  1. A municipality of Vestfold, Norway, which is to be merged with Tønsberg on 1 January 2020.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Re

  1. A municipality of Vestfold, Norway.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.