Tau

/taʊ/

Synonyms for "tau" (20 found)

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Noun(2 words)
greek letterheavy lepton

Related words (10)

Noun(7 words)
relaxation timeshear stresssymboltangential stresstau leptontau particletime constant

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More general

10 entries
alphabetic characterelementary particleleptonletterletter of the alphabetmechanical quantityparameterquantitystresssymbol

More specific

9 entries
bulk tau stresshadronic decayleptonic decaylowercase taumechanical time constantrc time constantsurface tau stressthermal time constantuppercase tau

Collocations

6 entries
Kendall taulowercase tautau decaytau leptontau particletime constant

Inflections

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Derivations

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Translations

2 translations across 2 languages.

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French

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  • croix en tau noun (Saint Anthony’s cross — see also Saint Anthony's cross)

German

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  • Taukreuz noun (Saint Anthony’s cross — see also Saint Anthony's cross)

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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