[{"word":"taus","phonetics":[],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A Τ-shaped sign or structure; a Saint Anthony's cross, sometimes regarded as a sacred symbol.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"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)"},{"definition":"A tau meson, now usually known as a kaon.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"An unstable heavy lepton, which decays into a muon or electron; a tauon.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Tau protein, a type of protein that stabilizes microtubules in the human central nervous system, failures of which are associated with forms of dementia.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A measurement of the sensitivity of the value of an option to changes in the implied volatility of the price of the underlying asset.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"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":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":["kappa","vega"],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tau","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/taus"]}]