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• t
  t

  a random variable having a t distribution.
• 't
  't

  a shortened form of it, before or after a verb, as in 'twas, 'tis, do't, see't.
• T
  T

  noun

  the 20th letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
• t-
  t-

  tertiary.
• T-
  T-

  (in designations of aircraft) trainer.
• -t
  -t

  variant of -ed used in forming the past tense or past participle of certain verbs, usually occurring when the final consonant of the stem is voiceless, a lateral, or a nasal and there is internal vowel change in the root.
• t.
  t.

  abbreviation

  in the time of.
• T.
  T.

  abbreviation

  tablespoon; tablespoonful.

t

¹ American  

Statistics.

1. a random variable having a t distribution.

2. the statistic resulting from a t-test.

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't ² American  

1. a shortened form of it, before or after a verb, as in 'twas, 'tis, do't, see't.

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T ³ American  

[tee] / ti /

Or t

noun

• T's,
  plural
• Ts,
  plural
• t's,
  plural
• ts
  plural

1. the 20th letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.

2. any spoken sound represented by the letter T or t, as in tub, but, or butter.

3. something having the shape of a T .

4. a written or printed representation of the letter T or t.

5. a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter T or t.

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idioms

1. to a T, exactly; perfectly: Also to a tee

   That job would suit you to a T.

T ⁴ American  

[tee] / ti /

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

1. T-shirt.

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T ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. (used in combination) tera-.

2. Electricity. tesla; teslas.

3. temperature.

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T ⁶ American  

Symbol.

1. the 20th in order or in a series.

2. (sometimes lowercase) the medieval Roman numeral for 160.

3. surface tension.

4. Chemistry. tritium. Also T

5. Biochemistry.

   1. threonine.

   2. thymine.

6. Photography. T number.

7. Physics.

   1. tau lepton.

   2. time reversal.

8. the launching time of a rocket or missile.

   T minus two.

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t- ⁷ American  

1. Chemistry. tertiary.

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T- ⁸ American  

1. U.S. Military. (in designations of aircraft) trainer.

   T-11.

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-t ⁹ American  

1. variant of -ed used in forming the past tense or past participle of certain verbs, usually occurring when the final consonant of the stem is voiceless, a lateral, or a nasal and there is internal vowel change in the root.

   slept; felt; dreamt.

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t. ¹⁰ American  

abbreviation

1. in the time of.

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t. ¹¹ American  

abbreviation

1. Football. tackle.

2. taken from.

3. tare.

4. teaspoon; teaspoonful.

5. temperature.

6. tenor.

7. Grammar. tense.

8. territory.

9. time.

10. tome.

11. ton.

12. town.

13. township.

14. transit.

15. transitive.

16. troy.

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T. ¹² American  

abbreviation

1. tablespoon; tablespoonful.

2. Territory.

3. Township.

4. Tuesday.

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t ¹ British  

symbol

1. tonne(s)

2. troy (weight)

3. statistics distribution

4. statistics See Student's t

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t. ² British  

abbreviation

1. commerce tare

2. teaspoon(ful)

3. temperature

4. music tempo

5. tenor

6. grammar tense

7. ton(s)

8. transitive

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T ³ British  

symbol

1. absolute temperature

2. tera-

3. chem tritium

4. biochem thymine

5. tesla

6. surface tension

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abbreviation

1. Thailand (international car registration)

t ⁴ British  

/ tiː /

noun

1. the 20th letter and 16th consonant of the modern English alphabet

2. a speech sound represented by this letter, usually a voiceless alveolar stop, as in tame

3. 1. something shaped like a T

   2. ( in combination )

      a T-junction

4. in every detail; perfectly

   the work suited her to a T

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't ⁵ British  

contraction

1. it

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T- ⁶ British  

abbreviation

1. trainer (aircraft)

   T-37

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T Scientific  

1. Abbreviation of temperature, tesla, thymine

2. The symbol for the isotope tritium.

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T More Idioms  

1. see dot the i's and cross the t's; to a T.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• T's
  plural
• Ts
  plural
• t's
  plural
• ts
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of T⁴

First recorded in 1970–75

Origin of t.¹⁰

From the Latin word tempore

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Example Sentences

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“Not at all – didn t see the press here 😬 and journalists write a lot of nonsense anyways,” she replied.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

But Starr says the most data from t REITs, which control about 30 percent of the industry and are subject to quarterly reporting requirements, shows occupancy increasing for the first time, year-to-year, since 2021.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

"I let my teammates down tonight. … It's been a long season. Hate how it ended. t is gonna stick with me for a long time. Can't win with 5 turnovers."

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026

Americans have always loved a good deal, bu t many are even more value-driven this year.

From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025

It was still dark when Jon returned to his chambers behind t the armory.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

“The decision to join U.S. Soccer wasn ‘t just about football for me,” Pochettino said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2024

RoboChem was developed by the group of Prof. Timothy Noël at the UvA's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 2024

But Dutch MEP Sophie in 't Veld accused him of "leaving the ship in the middle of a storm".

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2024

Van ’t Schip is re-energizing Ajax against the backdrop of a tragedy in his personal life.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 8, 2023

And then I started to translate our wonderful news for the Whitlaws. 't* fa ft We heard about Black Dog much later, when his coffin was shipped down to us.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

Knightsbridge was third, with two Japanese horses, T O Password and favored Forever Young finishing fourth and fifth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

A producer named Robert L Justman was intent on reviving the Star Trek franchise, and was looking for a successor to William Shatner's legendary James T Kirk.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

The suspect, named in French media as 39-year-old Kevin T, chose Trappes and nearby La Verrière because he saw them as a "hotbed for Islamists", he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

The company’s Long-Term Benefit Trust will have the power to appoint a majority of Anthropic’s board, through its control of the sole share of Anthropic’s Class T stock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Even if it was only a Model T, as Russell said.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

The graph has included the sampling distribution of the differences in the sample means to show how the t- distribution aligns with the sampling distribution data.

From Textbooks ● Nov. 29, 2017

This can easily be found on the student’s t- table at the very bottom at infinite degrees of freedom remembering that at infinity the t-distribution is the normal distribution.

From Textbooks ● Nov. 29, 2017

IsBell said he spreads that message at root beer float socials, game nights and other events wearing a Ron Paul t- shirt.

From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 2, 2012

The mill could buy the cotton, the mill could spin it, and make it into a t- shirt or underwear, but somebody’s got to take that off the shelf.

From BusinessWeek ● Aug. 29, 2011

Derivation: From the Tonika word óni, “man,” “people;” t- is a prefix or article; -ka, -χka a nominal suffix.

From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by John Wesley Powell

That’s partly because the Fed’s monthly purchases of short-term T- bills are easing strains in overnight funding markets, while also keeping long-term rates steady by extension.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 4, 2026

Investment losses for the fiscal year included Alibaba, a Chinese technology company with e-commerce, cloud computing and digital media operations, which offset gains from its holdings in T- Mobile.

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2024

Include in your description the roles of antigens and antibodies, T- cells, B-cells, inoculation with vaccines, and the relative response times.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

Philly's strength in 2021, however, is its defense, ranked 10th in scoring and seventh in total defense, compared to a Chiefs squad that's T- 31st and 30th in those respective categories.

From Fox News ● Sep. 30, 2021

The T- 33 could climb up to nearly 50,000 feet and could go nearly 600 miles an hour.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

If I put in xiwi -t code . that -t flag tells it to open my app in a Chrome tab instead of an independent app window.

From The Verge ● Nov. 16, 2017

Now you run sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -t xiwi -u -n xenial, replacing xenial with your chosen chroot name if you have something custom.

From The Verge ● Nov. 16, 2017

"Well then, tell me, what does c - a -t spell?"

From "Holes" by Louis Sachar

"How about h - a -t?" asked the Warden.

From "Holes" by Louis Sachar

The weak verbs are those which form the preterite by adding -ed, -d, or -t to the present: love, loved.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Stratton D. Brooks

Reality is that you are giving up your family time by doing the o. t. when they need you at work. 

From Time ● May 3, 2013

But the adjacent connotation "badger v. t." which Webster does say derives from Wisconsin is as follows: "To beat down; cheat; barter; bargain."

From Time Magazine Archive

Says Dr. Gumpert: The T. B. death rate may have dropped, but there are now 1,500,000 cases of t. b. in Germany, more than one-fourth of them advanced.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I wanted to bathe her. I had the sponge in my hand. But she wouldn t. She kept laughing and saying no.”

From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry

“Was that supposed to be comforting? Because, no offense, it wasn t. “

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

As Jean-Luc Picard, the captain who inherited the helm of USS Enterprise from William Shatner’s James T. Kirk, Stewart embodied franchise founder Gene Roddenberry’s humanist outlook.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

The "Dueling Dinosaurs" discovery became crucial to the research published by Lindsay Zanno and James Napoli that classified Nanotyrannus as separate from T. rex.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

The source also reported the presence of a Bible and a Koran in the apartment of the 39-year-old suspect, partly identified as Kevin T., in the town of Plaisir outside Paris.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

The team included co-senior author Jason Ulrich, PhD, a professor of neurology at WashU Medicine, and first author Joshua T. Emmerson, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in Holtzman's laboratory.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

The local city library’s collection of African-American books was limited to a few dog-eared copies of Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery and a few other equally innocuous works.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Morgan Da Savage's rap went viral after she performed on DJ and producer Toddla T's independent music platform Steeze Factory.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

In 1913, Henry Ford reorganized his Detroit factory around a moving assembly line, slashing the Model T’s assembly time to 93 minutes from 12.5 hours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

The 20th century became the age of the consumer, thanks in large part to Henry Ford, who needed someone to buy all of the Model T’s he was producing.

From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026

In addition to Delilah’s day with the Rams cheerleaders, Garza also helped organize a meeting with Tom Higgenson, lead singer of the Plain White T’s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2024

He hadn’t been to Big T’s in months, but he knew the way well enough.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

Of the three leading cars, two were Model Ts entered by the Ford Motor Co., the other a Shawmut manufactured in Boston.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Even as Model Ts rolled off assembly lines, the Stoners anticipated the automotive age’s horrors.

From Slate ● May 25, 2024

There were Ts embossed on the tongue and Ts on the sides.

From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2024

In recent weeks, the Cougs have left their Is undotted and their Ts without a cross, never more so than on these trick plays.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2023

He misses the press of people, the noise and chaos, black Model Ts rattling along the cobblestones, the treacly smell of street vendors’ peanuts roasting in sugar.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

Now, there are still some t’s to cross and i’s to dot.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026

In one of our final negotiation sessions, when we’re supposed to be dotting i’s and crossing t’s, he worries aloud about how these two vastly different companies are going to mesh their different cultures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

"I had really dotted all the i's and crossed all the t's of the experiment," he said.

From Science Daily ● May 18, 2026

Elliot: People always spell my name with two t's.

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

It was because she has trouble saying words sometimes, especially beginnings, like b’s and t’s and k’s.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

Shares in the French distiller initially fell on reports of talks with ts Kentucky-based peer, but investors changed their minds after the companies confirmed the talks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

The company has repurchased $78 billion of stock since 2016 at an average price of $441, double the current share price, according to a presentation accompanying i ts third-quarter earnings relea External link se.

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

McChrystal Group did not respond to questions from The Times about ts next report.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025

An increase in such investme ts would give India a timely economic boost and China more access to the world's fastest-growing major economy.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2025

Let the parallelepipedum aeiouy, be cut in to y the halfs by two plains, fro srlm, uivf, halfing the opposite sides: Here the common section ts, and the diagony ao, doe cut one another.

From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell

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