tau
Pronunciation:
/taʊ/noun
Definitions
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.
Example: 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.