C2 noun #87,017 most common

tau

UK /taʊ/ | US /taʊ/

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.

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  • (noun) 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.
  • (noun) A Τ-shaped sign or structure; a Saint Anthony's cross, sometimes regarded as a sacred symbol.
  • (noun) A tau meson, now usually known as a kaon.

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun 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. 2
    noun A Τ-shaped sign or structure; a Saint Anthony's cross, sometimes regarded as a sacred symbol.
  3. 3
    noun A tau meson, now usually known as a kaon.
  4. 4
    noun An unstable heavy lepton, which decays into a muon or electron; a tauon.
  5. 5
    noun Tau protein, a type of protein that stabilizes microtubules in the human central nervous system, failures of which are associated with forms of dementia.
  6. 6
    noun A measurement of the sensitivity of the value of an option to changes in the implied volatility of the price of the underlying asset.
  7. 7
    noun An irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its radius, approximately 6.2831853071; equal to twice the value of pi. Often written τ or 2π.

Examples

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Synonyms

kappa vega
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