tau
Meaning of tau
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.
- A Τ-shaped sign or structure; a Saint Anthony's cross, sometimes regarded as a sacred symbol.
1658: Nor shall we take in the mysticall Tau, or the Crosse of our blessed Saviour, which having in some descriptions an Empedon or crossing foot-stay, made not one single transversion. — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 168)
- A tau meson, now usually known as a kaon.
- An unstable heavy lepton, which decays into a muon or electron; a tauon.
- Tau protein, a type of protein that stabilizes microtubules in the human central nervous system, failures of which are associated with forms of dementia.
- A measurement of the sensitivity of the value of an option to changes in the implied volatility of the price of the underlying asset.
- 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.
Information about tau
- It is a name.
- The plural form of tau is: taus.
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Hyphenation of tau
tau
- It consists of 1 syllables and 3 chars.
- tau is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
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Words that rhyme with tau
Tau, Krakatau, krakatau, Patau, warratau, pitau, Mermentau
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