Tau

//taʊ//

Synonyms for "tau" (22 found)

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Translations

36 translations across 32 languages.

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Ancient Greek

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  • ταῦ noun (the letter Τ / τ in the Greek alphabet)

Arabic

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  • تَاو noun (the letter Τ / τ in the Greek alphabet)

Asturian

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Catalan

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Chinese Mandarin

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  • noun (the letter Τ / τ in the Greek alphabet)

Czech

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Danish

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Dutch

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Esperanto

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  • taŭo noun (the letter Τ / τ in the Greek alphabet)

Finnish

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French

3 entries
  • croix en tau noun (Saint Anthony’s cross — see also Saint Anthony's cross)
  • tau noun (the letter Τ / τ in the Greek alphabet)
  • tau noun (ellipsis of tau protein — see also tau protein)

Georgian

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  • ტაუ noun (the letter Τ / τ in the Greek alphabet)

German

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  • Tau noun (the letter Τ / τ in the Greek alphabet)
  • Taukreuz noun (Saint Anthony’s cross — see also Saint Anthony's cross)

Greek

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  • ταυ noun (the letter Τ / τ in the Greek alphabet)

Hebrew

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  • טָאוּ noun (the letter Τ / τ in the Greek alphabet)

Hungarian

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Icelandic

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Interlingua

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Italian

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Japanese

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  • タウ noun (the letter Τ / τ in the Greek alphabet)

Korean

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  • 타우 noun (the letter Τ / τ in the Greek alphabet)

Malay

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  • tau noun (the letter Τ / τ in the Greek alphabet)

Norwegian Bokmål

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  • tau noun (the letter Τ / τ in the Greek alphabet)

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Polish

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Portuguese

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Russian

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Spanish

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Swedish

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Thai

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  • เทา noun (the letter Τ / τ in the Greek alphabet)

Ukrainian

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  • тау noun (the letter Τ / τ in the Greek alphabet)

Welsh

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  • tau noun (the letter Τ / τ in the Greek alphabet)

Sample sentences

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In a study reported in the journal Science Translational Medicine, researchers describe how a synthetic drug, called antisense oligonucleotide, reduced the production and in some cases cleared clumps of tau in the brain.

Source: tatoeba (12257400)

Astronomers have detected swirls of diamonds, hundreds of thousands of times smaller than a grain of sand, in the protoplanetary or circumstellar disks of three baby star systems in the Milky Way - V892 Tau, HD 97048, and MWC 297.

Source: tatoeba (12356806)

Hence it appears that the spits, or skewers, on which and to which the lamb was fixed and fastened in order to be roasted, assumed the form of a cross, not such a tau-cross as is engraved in Dr. Oliver’s Historical Landmarks of Freemasonry, vol. i. p. 80. having three arms only like the Greek letter tau; but a cross like the ancient Hebrew tau, with four arms, though not necessarily all of equal length.

Source: wiktionary

In the Spanish translation of Sallust, by the Infant Don Gabriel in 1772, called the Infant Sallust, there is a curious dissertation by Father Perez Bayer on the resemblance between the ancient Hebrew and Phœnician alphabets, in which it is observed that the Hebrew Tau was written in pure Phœnician, […]

Source: wiktionary

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