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Theta vs Tau - What's the difference?

theta | tau |

As nouns the difference between theta and tau

is that theta is the name for the eighth letter οf the Modern Greek alphabet, ninth in Old Greek while tau is 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.

theta

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • the name for the eighth letter ?f the Modern Greek alphabet, ninth in Old Greek.
  • (mathematics) The measure of an angle.
  • Derived terms

    * theta wave ----

    tau

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The name of the letter and Modern Greek, the twenty-first letter of Old and [[Ancient Greek, Ancient Greek.
  • A -shaped sign or structure; a , sometimes considered as a sacred symbol.
  • * 1658': Nor shall we take in the mysticall '''''Tau'' , or the Crosse of our blessed Saviour, which having in some descriptions an ''Empedon'' or crossing foot-stay, made not one single transversion. — Sir Thomas Browne, ''The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 168)
  • A tau meson, now usually known as a kaon.
  • (label) An unstable heavy lepton, which decays into a muon or electron; a tauon.
  • (label) A type of protein used to stabilise microtubules.
  • * 1999 , (Matt Ridley), Genome , Harper Perennial 2004, p. 263:
  • Quite what that job is remains obscure, but one theory is that it is to stabilise another protein called tau , which is supposed in turn to keep in shape the tubular ‘skeleton’ of a neuron.
  • A constant equal to twice the value of pi; often written .
  • Coordinate terms

    * (Greek letter) Previous: sigma. Next: upsilon

    Anagrams

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