tau
tau — 名詞
- tausingular
- tausplural
1. the name of the letter that comes nineteenth in the Greek alphabet, written as T
tau字母
希臘字母表第十九個字母
the name of the letter that comes nineteenth in the Greek alphabet, written as T or τ.
The teacher wrote tau on the board beside pi and theta.
老師把 tau 字母寫在白板上，放在 pi 和 theta 旁邊。
tau named with other Greek letters
On the chart, tau comes after sigma and before upsilon.
在圖表上，tau 排在 sigma 後面、upsilon 前面。
position in the Greek alphabet sequence
The student circled tau after copying the Greek alphabet from memory.
那名學生憑記憶抄完希臘字母表後，把 tau 圈了起來。
A lowercase tau appears next to the last angle on the diagram.
圖上最後那個角旁邊出現了一個小寫的 tau。
During the quiz, Omar forgot whether tau was T or τ.
小考時，Omar 忘了 tau 是 T 還是 τ。
文法句型
write tau
tau comes after sigma
uppercase tau / lowercase tau
用法筆記
Usually appears when people are naming Greek letters in maths, science, or language study. When the symbol matters, writers often contrast uppercase T with lowercase tau.