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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  

/ 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 ² British  

contraction

1. it

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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  

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 ⁵ British  

symbol

1. tonne(s)

2. troy (weight)

3. statistics distribution

4. statistics See Student's t

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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

Etymology

Origin of T⁴

First recorded in 1970–75

Origin of t.¹⁰

From the Latin word tempore

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

But perhaps you would like to know just one < t two things more.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

Its Rapporteur, former MEP Sophie in 't Veld, told the BBC that the Greek government had made "every possible attempt to conceal the truth. They have, at every turn, refused cooperation."

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025

“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

Van ’t Schip said Ajax “needs to find the way up again and I’m happy to help in that matter.”

From Washington Times ● Oct. 30, 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

The notes were the highlight of Saffronart's "86-lot" auction, titled Gandhi: From the Collection of Anand T Hingorani.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

The notes, owned and preserved by the family of close associate and freedom fighter Anand T Hingorani, include 688 of Gandhi's handwritten messages on truth, non-violence and self-restraint written between 1944 and 1946.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

It also changed the tumor microenvironment in a potentially beneficial way by increasing the activity of cancer-fighting CD8+ T cells.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

As a result, cells displayed fewer signals capable of alerting T cells to cancer-related or viral proteins.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026

In the distance between buildings, I can see the bright yellow T shape of construction cranes.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

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

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

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

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

Legere’s testimony regarding T-Mobile’s potential pricing strategy Thursday stemmed from a September 2019 T-Mobile document that made projections about T- Mobile’s future as a standalone company in 2020.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 12, 2019

And jeans and underwear and a thin leather belt and a T- shirt with a windbreaker so tom it hung on him in tatters.

From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen

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

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

From "Holes" by Louis Sachar

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

From "Holes" by Louis Sachar

I. In the first there is the simple addition of -d, -t, or -ed.

From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

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

“Be a good boy and be careful. No, you can’t kiss me here. You >. »» can t. “All right.”

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

“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

She also served as a senior judge judicial extern for the late John T. Noonan Jr. at the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

To better understand the DNA sequences that control this process, researchers in the laboratory of University of California San Diego Professor James T. Kadonaga focused on an important DNA element known as the "initiator."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

“Conditions have shifted to favor active investing,” T. Rowe Price declared.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

They and the other dinosaurs — a T. rex, an armored ankylosaurus, a sight-gag-worthy giant snake — adapt to the 20th century as comfortably as coyotes, skulking through backyards in search of prey.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Felix was now the owner of a $250,000 T. rex skull.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

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

She has reportedly turned to Mrs T's legacy herself for inspiration, reading a book about her predecessor's early years in power.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2025

“Yesterday my dad calls 11 times in a row,” Teddi said in the Tuesday episode of the “Two T’s in a Pod” podcast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2025

Her accent is more pronounced, with the T’s and R’s harder, so I can tell she’s getting annoyed.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

Cheating aside, the Model Ts proved that they could.

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

"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

The deputy chief told Boyd that Spivey’s body was towed “to make sure that every i’s dotted, t’s crossed to clear you.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025

“I know sometimes people feel like, why hasn’t there been more information? But again, just trying to make sure we have i’s dotted and t’s crossed.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025

They want to make sure they're dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's, to make sure these are the correct identifications.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2023

CPAs, those folks who can add columns of 9s in their heads, have been advising MDs since the 1980s to dot their i’s, cross their t’s, and never accept IOUs.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

However the vandals somehow managed to spell the word 'out' with two ts.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2023

Although tsh is in some respects preferable to represent an aspirated ts, yet it is liable to be pronounced as in the English words hat shop, and perhaps ths is on the whole better.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot