taus Meaning & Definition
What Does Taus Mean?
Taus is a noun that means plural of tau.
Taus Definition (Noun)
- plural of tau
Noun
- 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.
- A Τ-shaped sign or structure; a Saint Anthony's cross, sometimes regarded 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.
- An unstable heavy lepton, which decays into a muon or electron; a tauon.
- Tau protein, a type of protein that stabilizes microtubules in the human central nervous system, failures of which are associated with forms of dementia.
- A measurement of the sensitivity of the value of an option to changes in the implied volatility of the price of the underlying asset.
- An irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its radius, approximately 6.2831853071; equal to twice the value of pi. Often written τ or 2π.
Synonyms of Taus
Taus synonyms and antonyms →Taus in a Sentence
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)
Word Forms & Grammar
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