Dew (letter)

Dew (letter)
pronunciation
antique	[ t ] ​​
modern	[ t ] ​​
Equivalents
Latin	Tt
Cyrillic	Тт
Hebrew	ת
Arabic	ﺕ
Phoenician	?
transcription
From the ancient world	t
From the modern	t
Coding Capitals Unicode number U + 03A4 Unicode name GREEK CAPITAL LETTER TAU HTML & # 932; HTML entity &Dew; Minuscule Unicode number U + 03C4 Unicode name GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU HTML & # 964; HTML entity &dew;

The Tau ( Greek neuter Ταυ , today's debate taf ; Majuskel Τ, minuscule τ) is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet and has after the Milesian system the numerical value of the 300th

use

The little rope denotes:

• in mathematics (more precisely in number theory ), the number function
  • as an alternative to the circle number π (τ = 2π)
• Relationship measures in statistics
  • Goodman and Kruskal's Tau
  • Kendall'sches Tau ( , , ) ${\displaystyle \tau _{a}}$ ${\displaystyle \tau _{b}}$ ${\displaystyle \tau _{c}}$
• in physics
  • the period
  • the τ-lepton
  • the time constant
  • the temperature or the temperature constant
  • the dew point
  • the transmittance
• in electrical engineering
  • the time constant when charging or discharging capacitors , see also RC element
  • the time constant for loading and unloading coils ; it is the quotient of inductance and wire resistance
• in analytical chemistry
  • the transmittance in photometric measurements
• in genetics
  • a subunit of DNA polymerase III
• in neurophysiology
  • the tau protein to support the microtubules
• in business administration
  • the cycle time
• in engineering
  • the shear stress
  • the dwell time
  • the traction coefficient
• in Christian symbolism
  • the Tau or St. Anthony cross , also a symbol of the Franciscan order .

See also

• Taw

Web links

Commons : Tau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Tau  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Remarks

1. ↑ after the vowels α and ε , in modern Greek the υ is usually pronounced (in the diphthong) as f or w