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Uncommontau
The correct spelling is tau.
How to pronounce tau
IPA: /taʊ/
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The correct spelling is tau. The letter Τ/τ in the Greek, Hebrew and ancient Semitic alphabets, being the nineteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek, the twenty-first letter of Old and Ancient Greek. For example: "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)"
Usage Examples
“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)”
Definition
noun
- 1.The letter Τ/τ in the Greek, Hebrew and ancient Semitic alphabets, being the nineteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek, the twenty-first letter of Old and Ancient Greek.
- 2.A Τ-shaped sign or structure; a Saint Anthony's cross, sometimes regarded as a sacred symbol.
- 3.A tau meson, now usually known as a kaon.
- 4.An unstable heavy lepton, which decays into a muon or electron; a tauon.
- 5.Tau protein, a type of protein that stabilizes microtubules in the human central nervous system, failures of which are associated with forms of dementia.
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