| 1. | the 20th letter of the English alphabet, a consonant. |
| 2. | any spoken sound represented by the letter T or t, as in tub, but, or butter. |
| 3. | something having the shape of a T. |
| 4. | a written or printed representation of the letter T or t. |
| 5. | a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter T or t. |
| 6. | to a T, exactly; perfectly: That job would suit you to a T. |
| 1. | the 20th in order or in a series, or, when I is omitted, the 19th. |
| 2. | (sometimes lowercase ) the medieval Roman numeral for 160. Compare Roman numerals. |
| 3. | surface tension. |
| 4. | Biochemistry.
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| 5. | Photography. T number. |
| 6. | Physics.
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| 7. | the launching time of a rocket or missile: T minus two. |
| 1. | a random variable having Student's t distribution. |
| 2. | the statistic employed in Student's t-test. |
| a shortened form of it, before or after a verb, as in 'twas, 'tis, do't, see't. |
| U.S. Military. (in designations of aircraft) trainer: T-11. |
| Chemistry. tertiary. |
| var. of -ed used in forming the past tense or past participle of certain verbs, usually occurring when the final consonant of the stem is voiceless, a lateral, or a nasal and there is internal vowel change in the root: slept; felt; dreamt. |
| 1. | Football. tackle. |
| 2. | taken from. |
| 3. | tare. |
| 4. | teaspoon; teaspoonful. |
| 5. | temperature. |
| 6. | in the time of. Origin: < L tempore ![]() |
| 7. | tenor. |
| 8. | Grammar. tense. |
| 9. | territory. |
| 10. | time. |
| 11. | tome. |
| 12. | ton. |
| 13. | town. |
| 14. | township. |
| 15. | transit. |
| 16. | transitive. |
| 17. | troy. |
| t 2 abbr. top quark |
| T 1 The symbol for the isotope tritium. |
| T 2 abbr.
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ten·or (těn'ər) n.
[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin, uninterrupted course, from tenēre, to hold, continue; see ten- in Indo-European roots.] |
tes·la (těs'lə) n. Abbr. T The unit of magnetic flux density in the International System of Units, equal to the magnitude of the magnetic field vector necessary to produce a force of one newton on a charge of one coulomb moving perpendicular to the direction of the magnetic field vector with a velocity of one meter per second. It is equivalent to one weber per square meter. See Table at measurement. [After Nikola Tesla.] |
| time reversal n. Mathematics Abbr. T An operation representing a transformation from a given physical system undergoing a given sequence of events to a system in which the exact reverse sequence of events takes place. |
| top quark n. Abbr. t A hypothetical quark with a charge of + 2/3 and a mass of 360,000 times that of the electron. See Table at subatomic particle. |
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A Nasdaq stock symbol specifying that the stock has warrants or rights.
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Nasdaq-listed securities have four or five characters. If a fifth letter appears, it identifies the issue as other than a single issue of common stock or capital stock.
See also: Nasdaq, Stock Symbol, Warrant
Also spelled: T
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Used in the dividend column of stock transaction tables in newspapers to indicate the market value as of the distribution date of stock dividends paid during the preceding 12 months. Stocks with this listing paid no cash dividends: Jetron .71t.
Used in bond transaction tables in newspapers to indicate a floating-rate bond or note: Amoco 8.05s89t.
t abbr.
temperature (often italic)
T 1
The symbol for the isotope tritium.
T 2
abbr.
tablespoon
absolute temperature (often italic)
tesla
tetanus toxoids vaccine
tetanus vaccine
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1. True. A Lisp compiler by Johnathan A. Rees in 1982 at Yale University. T has static scope and is a near-superset of Scheme. Unix source is available. T is written in itself and compiles to efficient native code. Used as the basis for the Yale Haskell system. Maintained by David Kranz
Latest version: 3.1.
(ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/systems/t3.1).
A multiprocessing version of T is available (ftp://masala.lcs.mit.edu/pub/mult).
Runs on Decstation, SPARC, Sun-3, Vax under Unix, Encore, HP, Apollo, Macintosh under A/UX.
E-mail:
(1991-11-26)
["The T Manual", Johnathan A. Rees
2. A functional language.
["T: A Simple Reduction Language Based on Combinatory Term Rewriting", Ida et al, Proc of Prog Future Generation Computers, 1988].
3. (lower case) The Lisp atom used to represent "true", among other things. "false" is represented using the same atom as an empty list, nil. This overloading of the basic constants of the language helps to make Lisp write-only code.
4. In transaction-processing circles, an abbreviation for "transaction".
5. (Purdue) An alternative spelling of "tee".
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