Associations to the word «Tau»

TAU, noun. The name of the letter Τ/τ in the Greek, Hebrew and ancient Semitic alphabets, being the nineteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek, the twenty-first letter of Old and Ancient Greek.

TAU, noun. A -shaped sign or structure; a St. Anthony's cross, sometimes considered as a sacred symbol.

TAU, noun. (particle) (dated) A tau meson, now usually known as a kaon.

TAU, noun. (particle) An unstable heavy lepton, which decays into a muon or electron; a tauon.

TAU, noun. (biology) A type of protein that stabilizes microtubules in the human central nervous system, failures of which are associated with forms of dementia.

TAU, noun. (mathematics) (neologism) A constant equal to twice the value of pi; often written τ.

TAU LEPTON, noun. (physics) A tauon.

TAU LEPTONS, noun. Plural of tau lepton

TAU NEUTRINO, noun. A leptonic elementary particle having a mass 60 times that of the electron and no charge

TAU NEUTRINOS, noun. Plural of tau neutrino

TAU, noun. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.