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[edit]τ
- (physics) Torque.
- (physics) Shear stress.
- (physics) Optical depth.
- 2006 August, Alexander V. Krivov, Artem G. Feofilov, Valeri V. Dikarev, “Search for the putative dust belts of Mars: The late 2007 opportunity”, in Planetary and Space Science, volume 54, numbers 9–10, , page 871:
- The first one was made by the Viking Orbiter 1 spacecraft in 1980 (Duxbury and Ocampo, 1988) and brought a negative result, setting the upper limit of the normal optical depth of the putative tori to .
- (mathematics, neologism) An irrational constant defined as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its radius, equal to the radian measure of a full turn; approximately 6.283185307 (equal to 2π, or twice the value of π).
- (physics) tauon
- (Teutonista) a voiceless dental plosive (IPA [t̪]).
- (UPA) A voiced coronal click consonant (dental ⟨τ̦⟩ = IPA [ɡ͜ǀ]; cacuminal ⟨τ̣⟩ = IPA [ɡ͜ǃ]).
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[edit]Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from its majuscule counterpart Τ.
Letter
[edit]τ • (t) (lowercase, uppercase Τ)
- Lower-case tau (ταῦ), the 19th letter of the ancient Greek alphabet. It represented the voiceless unaspirated alveolar or dental plosive /t/. It is preceded by σ and followed by υ.
Derived terms
[edit]See also tau
See also
[edit]- (Greek-script letters) Α α, Β β, Γ γ, Δ δ, Ε ε, Ζ ζ, Η η, Θ θ, Ι ι, Κ κ, Λ λ, Μ μ, Ν ν, Ξ ξ, Ο ο, Π π, Ρ ρ, Σ σ ς, Τ τ, Υ υ, Φ φ, Χ χ, Ψ ψ, Ω ω
- (non-Classical letters) Ϝ ϝ, Ͷ ͷ, Ͱ ͱ, Ϻ ϻ, Ϙ ϙ, Ͳ ͳ
- (punctuation) · ;
- (diacritics) ᾿ ῾ ◌́ ◌̀ ῀ ¨
Greek
[edit]Letter
[edit]τ • (t) (lowercase, uppercase Τ)
- The lower case letter tau (ταυ), the 19th letter of the modern Greek alphabet.
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