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tau

Syllabification: (tau)
Pronunciation: /tou, tô/
Definition of tau

noun

  • the nineteenth letter of the Greek alphabet (Τ, τ), transliterated as ‘t.’.
  • (Tau) [followed by Latin genitive] Astronomy the nineteenth star in a constellation:Tau Ceti
  • (in full tau particle or tau lepton) Physics an unstable subatomic particle of the lepton class, with a charge of 1 and a mass roughly 3,500 times that of the electron.

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