Cte

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

    "NFL players Ray Easterling, Junior Seau, Shane Dronett and Dave Duerson were found to have CTE after careers of repeated blows to the head. All died by suicide."

  2. 2
    Initialism of coefficient of thermal expansion. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  3. 3
    Initialism of common table expression. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism

    "A recursive CTE is where an initial CTE is built and then the results from that are called recursively in a UNION statement returning subsets of data until all the data is returned. This gives you the ability to create data in a hierarchical fashion, as you will see in the next example."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of Central Expressway. Singapore, abbreviation, alt-of

Synonyms

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chronic traumatic encephalopathychronic traumatic encephalopathy

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"NFL players Ray Easterling, Junior Seau, Shane Dronett and Dave Duerson were found to have CTE after careers of repeated blows to the head. All died by suicide."

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