t
a random variable having a t distribution.
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'ta shortened form of it, before or after a verb, as in 'twas, 'tis, do't, see't.
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Tnounthe 20th letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
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T-(in designations of aircraft) trainer.
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-tvariant 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.
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t.abbreviationin the time of.
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T.abbreviationtablespoon; tablespoonful.
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the 20th letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
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any spoken sound represented by the letter T or t, as in tub, but, or butter.
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something having the shape of a T .
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a written or printed representation of the letter T or t.
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a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter T or t.
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Football. tackle.
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taken from.
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teaspoon; teaspoonful.
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temperature.
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tablespoon; tablespoonful.
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the 20th letter and 16th consonant of the modern English alphabet
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a speech sound represented by this letter, usually a voiceless alveolar stop, as in tame
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something shaped like a T
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in every detail; perfectly
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commerce tare
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teaspoon(ful)
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temperature
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absolute temperature
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Abbreviation of temperature, tesla, thymine
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The symbol for the isotope tritium.
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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
If that didn’t work, we could usually get t he parts we needed at a gas station.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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
Dutch teenage driver Dilano van ’t Hoff was killed earlier this month on the circuit while competing in the Formula Regional European Championship.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 28, 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
There’s sweet Sister Agnes saying, “Now put a top line on the T, Johnnie.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Tip Toe's creator Russell T Davies: 'I wish television could change the world'
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
If you’re within the normal T range, there’s no evidence that upping testosterone “improves any medical outcome,” said Goncalves, the director of the Holman Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at NYU Langone Health.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Pieces of NY-ESO-1 are transported from inside tumor cells to their outer surface, where they can be recognized by T cells.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
The letters A, C, and T convey very little meaning by themselves, but can be combined in ways to produce substantially different messages.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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
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
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 yet there was something gentle and tender about him, in the way he had his arm around Boobie, who was wearing a red T- shirt and shorts with his shoulder tilting down slightly.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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
Let a euphonic influence eject the -t, as often as the word occurs in the nominative case.
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
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
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
“Was that supposed to be comforting? Because, no offense, it wasn t. “
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
“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
Museum paleontologists excavated some 70% of Thomas’s fossilized skeleton in the early 2000s, making it one of the most complete T. rex specimens ever found.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
His interests extended beyond jazz, and he did noteworthy collaborations with choreographer Bill T. Jones and classical pianist Ursula Oppens; in addition, he played with Bjork in the early 1990s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Russell T. Davies, the Swansea-born writer behind shows including Doctor Who and Channel 4's It's a Sin, also said online that he "can't wait".
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Medtronic, McCormick and T. Rowe Price are among the stocks that have outperformed the S&P 500 over the past three months—and have dividend yields of at least 3%.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
In 1916, a dozen years after Booker T. Washington proclaimed Durham the "City of Negro Enterprises," the county’s black schools were so impoverished that even a white school inspector was outraged.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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
They appeared on longtime collaborator Kanye West’s “Jesus Is King” in 2019, and Pusha T’s solo album “It’s Almost Dry” boasted an impressive Malice feature on track “I Pray for You” in 2022.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
“Sorry. Got a mini emergency going on here. Stop by on your way out. I’ve got some vintage T’s that’ll probably fit you.”
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
“But he dots his Is and crosses his Ts and does all the right things.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
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
As indie filmmakers, you’re so eager to get money so you can make the movie that sometimes you forget to cross your Ts and dot your I’s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 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
Elliot: People always spell my name with two t's.
From BBC ● May 2, 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
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
English Sounds. c ts ch h cz ch rz r followed by the French j sz sh szcz shch w v ż j In this transliteration ch retains its ordinary English sound.
From The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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