TAU

Tau

In the universe of Games Workshop's table-top wargame Warhammer 40,000, the Tau Empire is race of aliens inhabiting region of space on the eastern edge of the Galaxy, roughly 300 light years in diameter but having more stars than average for its size. The Tau were first introduced to Warhammer 40,000 in late 2001, the result of Games Workshop's plan to introduce a new race to the game.

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tau

Noun

  1. The name of the letter Τ/τ in the Greek, Hebrew and ancient Semitic alphabets, being the nineteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek, the twentieth letter of Old and Ancient Greek.
  2. A -shaped sign or structure; a St. Anthony's cross, sometimes considered as a sacred symbol.
  3. A tau meson, now usually known as a kaon.
  4. An unstable heavy lepton, which decays into a muon or electron; a tauon.
  5. A type of protein used to stabilise microtubules.
  6. A constant equal to twice the value of pi; often written τ.


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