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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  

/ 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. 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  

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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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

Just recently, the fast-growing software company Databricks secured more than $2 billion from lenders such as Blackstone, Apollo Global Managemen t, and Blue Owl, in a loan based on Databricks’ annualized recurring revenue.

From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 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

As part of their investigation, detectives searched the Hollywood Hills home where the D4vd lived, t, and removed electronic evidence and other items from the residence, which had been leased by the singer’s manager.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025

J**\e t Alex watched his sisters leave for Holy Angels, then went to his parents’ bedroom to search for the papers Bri would need.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer

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

Polly realized with a start. / didn ’t think such a thing was even possible.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper

AT&T T -1.25%decrease; down pointing triangle , Verizon Communications and other wireless carriers spent years promoting multiline phone plans, encouraging entire households—and even frugal friend groups—to sign up for family packages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Last month, the BBC said it was cancelling this year's Christmas special, at the same time as show runner Russel T Davies announced he was leaving the long-running sci-fi show.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Recently, she switched her cellphone service from AT&T to T Mobile, she said, hoping to get a better reception when she drives around her neighborhood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Interestingly, the T cells activated by cDC1 and cDC2 each displayed slightly different molecular "fingerprints," suggesting they may perform complementary roles.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

And soon enough, T stopped saying "never" and started saying "if."

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

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 Cox, George

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

How many different T- shirts are there to choose from?

From Textbooks ● Sep. 23, 2020

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

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 Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

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

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

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

"Gus" is one of the world's most complete T. rex skeletons -- with 183 fossilized bones -- and was discovered on a cattle ranch in South Dakota in 2021.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

But it took a further three years in the lab to piece the T. rex back together.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Brenna T. Smith is a visual investigations reporter on The Wall Street Journal's investigations team.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

“If you don’t do it yourself, the market tends to do it for you,” said Stuart Ritter, insights director at T. Rowe Price.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

T. Arnold Hill spoke in support of the union, but cautioned that the Urban League’s expectation was that the union would not play favorites between the races.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

“Our election teams, they do cross the T’s, dot the I’s. They are on it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 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

As we know, Henry Ford achieved huge efficiency gains by building his Model T’s on moving assembly lines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

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

We were still at Big T’s on Monday night when the evening newspaper came with word of the investigator’s report.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

Cheating aside, the Model Ts proved that they could.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 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

It’s just making sure our i’s are dotted and our t’s are crossed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

Adam could hear the singing lilt of his speech and yet could detect no word pronounced in a strange manner except perhaps in sharpened t’s and /’s held high on the tongue.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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 Eliot, Charles, Sir