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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  

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. ³ 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 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

Etymology

Origin of T⁴

First recorded in 1970–75

Origin of t.¹⁰

From the Latin word tempore

Example Sentences

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The global oil benchmark fell 1.8% to $98.92 a barrel, while WTI futures slipped 1.75% t $90.62 a barrel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Madison Air has spent $8 billion on some 13 acquisitions since 2017, according to t he deal prospectus.

From Barron's ● Apr. 15, 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

Several verbs ending in t or d have all but dropped the emending in the past tense.

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

Mr van 't Noordende adds that many companies are passing those extra costs on to their customers, which is adding upward pressure to general inflation.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 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

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Slumping in last place in the Dutch league, four-time European champion Ajax named former player John van ’t Schip as coach Monday for the rest of a so-far calamitous season.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 30, 2023

The first time my brother says ain 't my mother pulls a branch from the willow tree growing down the hill at the edge of our backyard.

From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson

They display foreign or abnormal proteins to T cells, which then recruit other immune cells to respond to the threat.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026

Russell T Davies says death of late husband has been his 'greatest loss'

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

AT&T’s T 1.41%increase; up pointing triangle quarterly revenue ticked up as more customers signed up for its postpaid phone and internet services.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

However, older adults often develop fewer protective antibodies and T cells after receiving a vaccine.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 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

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

In fact, other things being equal, it is preferable to place ĉi before rather than after the t- word, though both forms are equally correct.

From The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary by George Cox

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

A man was asked to remove his “Jesus Saves” T- shirt or leave the Mall of America while visiting the Minnesota shopping mecca this month.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 17, 2023

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

He was living on a slightly tumbledown horse farm in northern Missouri, sitting on the back porch in jeans and a cutoff T- shirt.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

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

"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

How are derivatives of words ending in -t treated?

From Division of Words Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends of Lines, with Remarks on Spelling, Syllabication and Pronunciation by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton

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

“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

When the dot-com boom and bust of 1998-2002 started, Dom Rizzo, the global technology equity fund manager at T. Rowe Price, was only five years old.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

The study was led by Bethania C. T. Siviero of Loma Linda University and her colleagues.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

The city got an economic boost from an estimated 625,000 fans, including thousands who traveled to support their national teams without a match ticket, Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts Jr. said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

Her enslaver, Philemon T. Hambleton—who may well have been her biological father—refused to release her from servitude.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

But nineteenth-century America was full of “humbug,” a word used for the types of entertainment popularized by renowned promoter P. T. Barnum.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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

“But he dots his Is and crosses his Ts and does all the right things.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

The “Two Ts in a Pod” co-host announced her divorce on social media over the weekend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 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

At one point, over half of all cars in the world were Model Ts.

From Slate ● Jan. 10, 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

“No matter what the federal government was doing, they knew that if they weren’t dotting their i’s and crossing their t’s, they were going to get called to account,” Hilton said.

From Salon ● Jul. 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

“It sure seems like there are nine justices who did not think the Trump administration had crossed their t’s and dotted their i’s.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

“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

The students were asked to read over and over a single phonetic paragraph designed to teach them how to soften their t’s and to roll their r s.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

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

Here the statement is made that all the letters are pronounced; that ch is pronounced ts, as in the Spanish word muchacho.

From Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Charles Alfred Downer