t meaning

• Noun: t  tee
  1. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms
     - metric ton, MT, tonne 
  2. The 20th letter of the Roman alphabet
     - T
  Noun: T  tee
  1. A base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine
     - thymine 
  2. Hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells
     - thyroxine, thyroxin, tetraiodothyronine 
  3. One of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose)
     - deoxythymidine monophosphate 
  4. Thyroid hormone similar to thyroxine but with one less iodine atom per molecule and produced in smaller quantity; exerts the same biological effects as thyroxine but is more potent and briefer
     - triiodothyronine, liothyronine

  Derived forms: Ts, ts

  Type of: alphabetic character, base, letter, letter of the alphabet, metric weight unit, nucleotide, pyrimidine, thyroid hormone, weight unit

  Part of: deoxyribonucleic acid, desoxyribonucleic acid, DNA, Latin alphabet, Roman alphabet

  Encyclopedia: T T, mobile T,FTFY

• 
  [Architecture]
  

  On drawings, abbr. for tee.

• 
  [Defence]
  search time available; short ton; trackline pattern
• 
  [Electronics]
  1. Symbol for TIME.
  2. Abbreviation of TON. (Also, T and tn.)
  3. Symbol for CELSIUS TEMPERATURE. (Also, T.)
  4. Abbreviation of TARGET.
  5. Abbreviation of technical.
  6. Abbreviation of TENSION.
  

[Finance]
Fifth letter of a Nasdaq stock symbol indicating that the stock has warrants or rights.
• 
  [Mechanics]
  See troy system
• 
  [Medicine]
  abbr
  1 tesla
  2 thoracic —used with a number from 1 to 12 to indicate a vertebra or segment of the spinal cord ‹multiple injuries with a fracture of T-12›
  3 thymine
  T
  symbol
  1 absolute temperature
  2 tritium
  
• 
  [Computer]
  1. True. A Lisp compiler by Johnathan A. Rees in 1982 at Yale University. T has static scope and is a near-superset of Scheme. Unix source is available. T is written in itself and compiles to efficient native code. Used as the basis for the Yale Haskell system. Maintained by David Kranz
  
  Latest version: 3.1.
  
  
  
  A multiprocessing version of T is available
  
  Runs on Decstation, SPARC, Sun-3, Vax under Unix, Encore, HP, Apollo, Macintosh under A/UX.
  
  E-mail: E-mail:
  
  
  
  
  
  2. A functional language.
  
  
  
  3. (lower case) The Lisp atom used to represent "true", among other things. "false" is represented using the same atom as an empty list, nil. This overloading of the basic constants of the language helps to make Lisp write-only code.
  
  4. In transaction-processing circles, an abbreviation for "transaction".
  
  5. (Purdue) An alternative spelling of "tee".

Examples

1. that spokesman is striking up t
2. time reversal t is not unitary.
3. the consonants " t ", " f " and " s " are voiceless.
4. in a nonautonomous system, f is explicitly a function of t.
5. a slight variant of the above construction of t goes as follows.