T

¹

Or t

[tee]

noun

plural

T's, Ts, t's, ts. 

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.

t.

²

abbreviation

1. in the time of.

T

³

[tee]

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

1. T-shirt.

t.

⁴

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.

T

⁵

abbreviation

1. (used in combination) tera-.

2. Electricity.,  tesla; teslas.

3. temperature.

T

⁶

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.

t

⁷

Statistics.

1. a random variable having a t distribution.

2. the statistic resulting from a t-test.

't

⁸

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

t-

⁹

1. Chemistry.,  tertiary.

T-

¹⁰

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

   T-11.

-t

¹¹

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.

T.

¹²

abbreviation

1. tablespoon; tablespoonful.

2. Territory.

3. Township.

4. Tuesday.

t

¹

/ 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

't

²

contraction

1. it

t.

³

abbreviation

1. commerce tare

2. teaspoon(ful)

3. temperature

4. music tempo

5. tenor

6. grammar tense

7. ton(s)

8. transitive

T-

⁴

abbreviation

1. trainer (aircraft)

   T-37

t

⁵

symbol

1. tonne(s)

2. troy (weight)

3. statistics distribution

4. statistics See Student's t

T

⁶

symbol

1. absolute temperature

2. tera-

3. chem tritium

4. biochem thymine

5. tesla

6. surface tension

abbreviation

1. Thailand (international car registration)

T

1. Abbreviation of temperature, tesla, thymine

2. The symbol for the isotope tritium.

Word History and Origins

Origin of t¹

From the Latin word tempore

Origin of t²

First recorded in 1970–75

Word History and Origins

Origin of t¹

(sense 4) Latin: in the time of

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

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

   That job would suit you to a T.

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

Example Sentences

"The system doesn't stop responding, but it avoids exaggeration. This is particularly interesting for a greater understanding of healthy aging since disordered inflammatory responses are linked to several chronic diseases," she concludes.

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"They care about very specific compositions. Advanced manufacturing now makes it possible to combine metals that normally wouldn't mix through deformation. Understanding how atoms actually shuffle and mix in those processes is crucial, because it's the key to gaining strength while still keeping the low density. So, this could be a huge deal for them."

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"The conclusion is: You can never completely randomize the atoms in a metal. It doesn't matter how you process it," explains Rodrigo Freitas, the TDK Assistant Professor in the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

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"But the more I learned about it, the more I saw researchers were thinking about this in idealized laboratory scenarios. We wanted to perform simulations that were as realistic as possible to reproduce these manufacturing processes with high fidelity. My favorite part of this project is how non-intuitive the findings are. The fact that you cannot completely mix something together, people didn't see that coming."

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Yet the metals didn't behave as expected.

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