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   A

   /ā/

   noun

   • 1. the first letter of the alphabet.
   • ▪ denoting the first in a set of items, categories, sizes, etc.
   • ▪ denoting the first of two or more hypothetical people or things: "suppose A had killed B"
   • ▪ the highest class of academic mark: "a dazzling array of straight A's"
   • ▪ denoting the first file from the left, as viewed from White's side of the board.
   • ▪ the first fixed quantity in an algebraic expression.
   • ▪ the human blood type (in the ABO system) containing the A agglutinogen and lacking the B.
   • 2. a shape like that of a capital A: "an A-shape"
   • 3. the sixth note of the diatonic scale of C major.
   • ▪ a key based on a scale with A as its keynote.

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