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Schwa

/ʃwɑ/

An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA.

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noun
  1. 1

    An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA.

  2. 2

    The character ə.

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