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noun
- The twentieth letter of the Appendix:Roman script, English alphabet, preceded by S and followed by U.
abbreviation
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(ratings) teen
- (finance) taxable
- Tuesday
- (stock symbol) AT&T
noun
- (particles) A hypothetical particle that travels faster than the speed of light.
noun
- The name of the letter T in the Greek, Hebrew and ancient Semitic alphabets, being the nineteenth letter of the Classical Greek, Classical and Modern Greek, the twentieth letter of Old Greek, Old and Ancient Greek, Ancient Greek.
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- Letter of the Greek alphabet: '''Τ τ
- Previous: sigma, Σ
- Next: upsilon, Υ
- A (polytonic, Τ)-shaped sign or structure; a St. Anthony's cross, sometimes considered as a sacred symbol.
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1658: Nor shall we take in the mysticall Tau, or the Crosse of our blessed Saviour, which having in some descriptions an Empedon or crossing foot-stay, made not one single transversion. " Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 168)
- (context, particles, dated) A tau meson, now usually known as a kaon.
- (particles) An unstable heavy lepton, which decays into a muon or electron.
noun ( wikipedia, neutrino)
- (particles) an elementary particle, a lepton, having a mass 60 times that of the electron and no charge
noun
- (particles) An elementary particle, a lepton, having a mass almost twice that of a proton and a negative charge.
noun ( plural: thermals)
- A rise, rising column of air.
adjective
- pertaining to heat or temperature.
- (of fabric) providing efficient insulation so as to keep the body warm.
adjective
- of, related to, or associated with heat; thermal
noun
- (physics) An electrically charged particle, either an electron or an ion, emitted by a conducting material at high temperatures
noun
- (physics) A transducer consisting of two different metals welded together at each end; a voltage is produced that is proportional to the difference in temperature between the two junctions (one of which is normally held at a known temperature)
noun thermoluminescent
- (physics) the release of previously absorbed radiation upon being heated
adjective
- (physics) Of or pertaining to any of several phenomena occurring when an electrical conductor or semiconductor is placed in a temperature gradient and a magnetic field
adjective
- Of, or relating to the fusion of atomic nuclei at high temperatures
- Of, or relating to the use of atomic weapons based on such fusion, especially as distinguished from those based on fission
noun
- the quality, of depth or thickness, that differentiates a solid object from a two-dimensional image of it
noun
- (context, physics, philosophy) an attempt to solve a problem using the power of human imagination
noun
- (mathematics) an operation that transforms a physical system undergoing a sequence of events into one in which the events take place in the reverse sequence
- (physics) T-symmetry
noun
- (particles) A quark having a fractional electric charge of +2/3 and a mass about 178,000 MeV?. Symbol: t
noun
- (physics) The unique temperature and pressure at which the solid, liquid and gas phases of a substance are all in equilibrium
proper noun
- (Greek mythology) a god of the sea, son of Poseidon
- (astronomy) the seventh moon of Neptune
noun
- (particles) original name for the top quark
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