Tau (disambiguation)
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Tau is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
Tau may also refer to:
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[edit] Geography
- Tau, Norway, a small town in western Norway.
- Tău, two villages in Romania.
- Tau, Samoa (Taʻū), an island in the Manuʻa Island Group of American Samoa.
- Tau (island), an island near Kilinailau, Greenwich Island, and Ocean Island.
- Tau (Tongatapu), the most northern offshore island of Tongatapu, Tonga.
- Tau (Haʻapai), an island in the southern part of Haʻapai, Tonga.
[edit] Science
- Tau lepton, a fundamental particle.
- Tau (protein), a biochemical protein associated with microtubules.
- Tau is the standard astronomical abbreviation for the constellation Taurus.
- Tau test in statistics (tau-a, tau-b and tau-c tests or Kendall tau rank correlation coefficient).
- Tau in circadian biology is a mutation in the Casein kinase 1 epsilon protein, which regulates phosphorylation of the clock protein PER.
- Tau (theorem prover), an automated theorem prover for first-order predicate logic with equality.
[edit] Technology
- Telelogic TAU, a UML and SysML modelling tool.
- Thermal Assist Unit, part of a PowerPC.
- TAU mission, a proposal to send a space probe to a thousand astronomical units from the Earth.
[edit] Fiction
- Tau'ri, the name for humans of Earth, used in the Stargate fictional universe.
- Tau (Warhammer 40,000), an alien race from the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe.
[edit] Theology
- Tau (mythology), an evil spirit in Guaraní mythology.
- The Cross of Tau, a Christian symbol so called due to its resemblance to the letter Tau.
[edit] Other
- An acronym for Tel Aviv University - Tel Aviv University
- Tau (store), a health food store in Montreal and Laval, Quebec, Canada.
- Tau (band), an indie rock band from Scotland.
- Tau (first name, male), a male given name, meaning "lion" in Sesotho and Tswana.
- Tau (for you), meaning "for you" in Lithuanian.
- Jimmy Tau, South African football (soccer) player
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