t
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t - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Mute \Mute\, n.
1. One who does not speak, whether from physical inability,
unwillingness, or other cause. Specifically:
(a) One who, from deafness, either congenital or from
early life, is unable to use articulate language; a
deaf-mute.
(b) A person employed by undertakers at a funeral.
(c) A person whose part in a play does not require him to
speak.
(d) Among the Turks, an officer or attendant who is
selected for his place because he can not speak.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Phon.) A letter which represents no sound; a silent
letter; also, a close articulation; an element of speech
formed by a position of the mouth organs which stops the
passage of the breath; as, p, b, d, k, t.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Mus.) A little utensil made of brass, ivory, or other
material, so formed that it can be fixed in an erect
position on the bridge of a violin, or similar instrument,
in order to deaden or soften the tone.
[1913 Webster]
T \T\ (t[=e]),
the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal
consonant. With the letter h it forms the digraph th, which
has two distinct sounds, as in thin, then. See Guide to
Pronunciation, [sect][sect]262-264, and also [sect][sect]153,
156, 169, 172, 176, 178-180.
[1913 Webster] The letter derives its name and form from the
Latin, the form of the Latin letter being further derived
through the Greek from the Ph[oe]nician. The ultimate origin
is probably Egyptian. It is etymologically most nearly
related to d, s, th; as in tug, duke; two, dual, L. duo;
resin, L. resina, Gr. "rhti`nh, tent, tense, a., tenuous,
thin; nostril, thrill. See D, S.
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T bandage (Surg.), a bandage shaped like the letter T, and
used principally for application to the groin, or
perineum.
T cart, a kind of fashionable two seated wagon for pleasure
driving.
T iron.
(a) A rod with a short crosspiece at the end, -- used as a
hook.
(b) Iron in bars, having a cross section formed like the
letter T, -- used in structures.
T rail, a kind of rail for railroad tracks, having no
flange at the bottom so that a section resembles the
letter T.
T square, a ruler having a crosspiece or head at one end,
for the purpose of making parallel lines; -- so called
from its shape. It is laid on a drawing board and guided
by the crosspiece, which is pressed against the straight
edge of the board. Sometimes the head is arranged to be
set at different angles.
To a T, exactly, perfectly; as, to suit to a T. [Colloq.]
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t - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
T
n 1: a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from
pyrimidine; pairs with adenine [syn: thymine, T]
2: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four
nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar
(ribose) [syn: deoxythymidine monophosphate, T]
3: a unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms [syn: metric ton
, MT, tonne, t]
4: the 20th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: T, t]
5: 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 [syn: triiodothyronine, liothyronine, T]
6: hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism
by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells; "thyroxine is
65% iodine" [syn: thyroxine, thyroxin,
tetraiodothyronine, T]
t - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :
T
T Lisp
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 <kranz@masala.lcs.mit.edu>.
Current version: 3.1.
(ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/systems/t3.1).
A multiprocessing version of T is available
(ftp://masala.lcs.mit.edu/pub/mult).
Runs on Decstation, SPARC, Sun-3, Vax under Unix,
Encore, HP, Apollo, Macintosh under A/UX.
E-mail: <t3-bugs@cs.yale.edu> (bugs).
E-mail: <t-project@cs.yale.edu>.
(1991-11-26)
["The T Manual", Johnathan A. Rees <jar@zurich.ai.mit.edu> et
al, Yale U, 1984].
2. A functional language.
["T: A Simple Reduction Language Based on Combinatory Term
Rewriting", Ida et al, Proc of Prog Future Generation
Computers, 1988].
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".
t - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :
T
/T/
1. [from LISP terminology for `true'] Yes. Used in reply to a
question
(particularly one asked using The -P convention). In LISP, the
constant T means `true', among other things. Some Lisp hackers use
`T'
and `NIL' instead of `Yes' and `No' almost reflexively. This
sometimes
causes misunderstandings. When a waiter or flight attendant asks
whether a hacker wants coffee, he may absently respond `T', meaning
that he wants coffee; but of course he will be brought a cup of tea
instead. Fortunately, most hackers (particularly those who frequent
Chinese restaurants) like tea at least as well as coffee -- so it is
not that big a problem.
2. See time T (also since time T equals minus infinity).
3. [techspeak] In transaction-processing circles, an abbreviation for
the noun `transaction'.
4. [Purdue] Alternate spelling of tee.
5. A dialect of LISP developed at Yale. (There is an intended
allusion to NIL, "New Implementation of Lisp", another dialect of
Lisp
developed for the VAX)
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