Definitions for tau
taʊ, tɔtau

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.7 / 3 votes

1. taunoun

   the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. taunoun

   The name of the letter T/u03C4 in the Greek, Hebrew and ancient Semitic alphabets, being the nineteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek, the twentieth letter of Old and Ancient Greek.

2. taunoun

   A -shaped sign or structure; a St. Anthony's cross, sometimes considered as a sacred symbol.

3. taunoun

   A tau meson, now usually known as a kaon.

4. taunoun

   An unstable heavy lepton, which decays into a muon or electron; a tauon.

5. taunoun

   A type of protein used to stabilise microtubules.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tau

   Tau (uppercase Τ, lowercase τ, or τ {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\tau }}} ; Greek: ταυ [taf]) is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiceless dental or alveolar plosive IPA: [t]. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 300. The name in English is pronounced or , but in Greek it is [taf]. This is because the pronunciation of the combination of Greek letters αυ can have the pronunciation of either [ai], [av] or [af], depending on what follows and if a diaeresis is present on the second vowel (see Greek orthography). Tau was derived from the Phoenician letter taw (

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1. tau

   Tau is a Greek letter representing the nineteenth letter of the Greek alphabet (Τ, τ). It is commonly used in various contexts, including mathematics, science, and engineering. In mathematics, tau is often used to represent the golden ratio, which is approximately 1.6180339887. In physics, tau is used to represent the lifetime of a particle or interaction. Additionally, tau is also used in computer science and programming to denote a variable or data type.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Taunoun

   the common American toadfish; -- so called from a marking resembling the Greek letter tau (/)

WikidataRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Tau

   Tau is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 300. The name in English is pronounced, but in modern Greek it is. This is because the pronunciation of the combination of Greek letters αυ has changed from ancient to modern times from one of to either or, depending on what follows. Tau was derived from the Phoenician letter taw . Letters that arose from tau include Roman T and Cyrillic Te. The letter occupies the Unicode slots U+03C4 and U+03A4. In HTML, they can be produced with named entities, decimal references, or hexadecimal references.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. Tau

   taw, n. the toad-fish: a tau-cross.—ns. Tau′-bone, a Τ-shaped bone, as the interclavicle of a monotreme; Tau′-cross, a cross in the form of a Τ—also Cross-tau and Cross of St Anthony; Tau′-staff, a staff with a cross-piece at the top like a crutch.—adj. Tau′-topped, having a handle like a tau-cross. [See T.]

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1. tau

   The tau symbol -- In this Symbols.com article you will learn about the meaning of the tau symbol and its characteristic.

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3. TAU

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. TAU

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Tau is ranked #41359 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Tau surname appeared 526 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Tau.
   
   58.9% or 310 total occurrences were Asian.
   27.9% or 147 total occurrences were White.
   7.7% or 41 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   2.6% or 14 total occurrences were Black.
   2.6% or 14 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Anagrams for tau »

1. AUT

2. tua

3. uta

How to pronounce tau?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of tau in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of tau in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of tau in a Sentence

1. Doug Williamson:

   Increasingly, there are imaging technologies that allow you to look at deposited amyloid plaque and even deposited tau in the brain.

2. Gillian Coughlan:

   Most of the associations we saw between menopause and tau protein occurred in the context of high amyloid, now a large portion of the older population do accumulate amyloid as they get older — it’s not that uncommon.

3. Julian Bailes:

   Most CTE sufferers have been found at autopsy to have tau, but also about 40 % have had amyloid as well. So they are showing both degeneration markers in the brain, most importantly, it's a distinct pattern that we haven't seen in any other condition -- not in Alzheimer's, not in other forms of dementia, and certainly not in normal controls. So it's not just what we're binding to, it's that this pattern appears to be distinct and it appears to be the areas that have been damaged in autopsy studies of sufferers with CTE.

4. Ronald Petersen:

   In an ideal world, you want to take a 78-year-old and say, I think in your brain amyloid is contributing to 20 percent of your cognitive problems, so I’ll give you an anti-amyloid therapy. You also have tau proteins contributing to about 35 percent of your problems, and so on, you’d want to design a therapeutic regimen based on the different components and their contributions to that patient’s disease.

5. Sjors Scheres:

   Knowing which parts of tau are important for filament formation is relevant for the development of drugs.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=tau
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Tau
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tau
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=tau
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=tau
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html