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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

T¹ / tē/ (also t) • n. (pl. Ts or T's ) 1. the twentieth letter of the alphabet. ∎ denoting the next after S in a set of items, categories, etc. 2. (T) (also tee) a shape like that of a capital T: [in comb.] make a T-shaped wound in the rootstock and insert the cut bud. See also T-square, etc. PHRASES: cross the T hist. (of a naval force) cross in front of an enemy force approximately at right angles, securing a tactical advantage for gunnery. to a T inf. exactly; to perfection: I baked it to a T, and of course it was delicious. T² • abbr. ∎ [in comb.] (in units of measurement) tera- (10¹²): 12 Tbytes of data storage. ∎ tesla. ∎ Brit. (in names of sports clubs) Town: Mansfield T. • symb. ∎ temperature. ∎ Chem. the hydrogen isotope tritium.

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World Encyclopedia | 2005 | Copyright

T 20th letter of the English alphabet and a letter employed in the alphabets of other w European languages, It arises ultimately from the Semitic letter taw (a name meaning mark) and entered the Greek alphabet via that of the Phoenicians. The Greek letter tau became the Roman letter T with little modification. In English t is usually a voiceless alveolar plosive consonant or stop made with the tongue tip or blade against the upper tooth ridge. It has this sound in fat and tar, although it is silent in such words as listen and castle, and in words derived from French, such as depot and debut. The combination th represents both a voiced and a voiceless dental fricative, as in then and thin respectively. The combination ti is sometimes pronounced as a voiceless palatal fricative sh, as in action and militia.

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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

T the twentieth letter of the modern English alphabet and the nineteenth of the ancient Roman one, corresponding to Greek tau, Hebrew taw.
To a T means exactly, to perfection. Recorded from the late 17th century, this idiom may reflect the idea of completing the letter T by putting in the cross-stroke. However, an earlier expression in the same sense was to a title, so T may be an abbreviation. Attempts to link it with a golfer's tee or a builder's T-square are unconvincing.

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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "T." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

T 20th letter of the alphabet . It corresponds to the Greek tau. It represents the unvoiced dental or, as in English, the alveolar stop. The diagraph th represents the characteristic English interdental fricative, voiced in this, voiceless in thing. For modern misapprehensions concerning older signs for the fricative, see the letter Y .

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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

t • abbr. long or metric ton(s). • symb. (t) Statistics a number characterizing the distribution of a sample taken from a population with a normal distribution (see Student's t-test).

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A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology | 2004 | | Copyright

T. The twentieth letter of the modern English alphabet is represented by tinne [Ir., holly] in the ogham alphabet of early Ireland.

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JAMES MacKILLOP. "T." A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

T in phr. to a T exactly, to a nicety. XVII. perh. for earlier to a TITTLE.

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T. F. HOAD. "T." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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A Dictionary of Computing | 2004 | | Copyright

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1. Symbol for tera-.

2. A dialect of LISP, similar to SCHEME.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996 | | Copyright

t. Tonic sol-fa symbol for 7th degree of scale, pronounced te.

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MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "t." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | | Copyright

T See TAYLOR NUMBER.

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T See TESLA
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t (ital.) symbol for Celsius temperature
• Astronomy, symbol for hour angle
• (ital.) Statistics, symbol for Student's t distribution
• Music te (in tonic sol-fa)
• (ital.) Chem. tertiary (isomer; as in t-butane)
• symbol for tonne(s)
• Physics top (a quark flavour)
• (ital.) Chem., symbol for transport number

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FRAN ALEXANDER , PETER BLAIR , JOHN DAINTITH , ALICE GRANDISON , VALERIE ILLINGWORTH , ELIZABETH MARTIN , ANNE STIBBS , JUDY PEARSALL , and SARA TULLOCH. "t." The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

FRAN ALEXANDER , PETER BLAIR , JOHN DAINTITH , ALICE GRANDISON , VALERIE ILLINGWORTH , ELIZABETH MARTIN , ANNE STIBBS , JUDY PEARSALL , and SARA TULLOCH. "t." The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations. 1998. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O25-t.html

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