mute \mute\, n.
   1. one who does not speak, whether from physical inability,
      unwillingness, or other cause. specifically:
      a one who, from deafness, either congenital or from
          early life, is unable to use articulate language; a
          deaf-mute.
      b a person employed by undertakers at a funeral.
      c a person whose part in a play does not require him to
          speak.
      d among the turks, an officer or attendant who is
          selected for his place because he can not speak.
          1913 webster

   2. phon. a letter which represents no sound; a silent
      letter; also, a close articulation; an element of speech
      formed by a position of the mouth organs which stops the
      passage of the breath; as, p, b, d, k, t.
      1913 webster

   3. mus. a little utensil made of brass, ivory, or other
      material, so formed that it can be fixed in an erect
      position on the bridge of a violin, or similar instrument,
      in order to deaden or soften the tone.
      1913 webster
see also:
p b d k t 

t \t\ t=e,
   the twentieth letter of the english alphabet, is a nonvocal
   consonant. with the letter h it forms the digraph th, which
   has two distinct sounds, as in thin, then. see guide to
   pronunciation, sectsect262-264, and also sectsect153,
   156, 169, 172, 176, 178-180.
   1913 webster the letter derives its name and form from the
   latin, the form of the latin letter being further derived
   through the greek from the phoenician. the ultimate origin
   is probably egyptian. it is etymologically most nearly
   related to d, s, th; as in tug, duke; two, dual, l. duo;
   resin, l. resina, gr. "rhti`nh, tent, tense, a., tenuous,
   thin; nostril, thrill. see d, s.
   1913 webster

   t bandage surg., a bandage shaped like the letter t, and
      used principally for application to the groin, or
      perineum.

   t cart, a kind of fashionable two seated wagon for pleasure
      driving.

   t iron.
   a a rod with a short crosspiece at the end, -- used as a
       hook.
   b iron in bars, having a cross section formed like the
       letter t, -- used in structures.

   t rail, a kind of rail for railroad tracks, having no
      flange at the bottom so that a section resembles the
      letter t.

   t square, a ruler having a crosspiece or head at one end,
      for the purpose of making parallel lines; -- so called
      from its shape. it is laid on a drawing board and guided
      by the crosspiece, which is pressed against the straight
      edge of the board. sometimes the head is arranged to be
      set at different angles.

   to a t, exactly, perfectly; as, to suit to a t. colloq.
      1913 webster
see also:
d s t bandage t cart t iron t rail 
t square to a t 

t
     n 1: a base found in dna but not in rna and derived from
          pyrimidine; pairs with adenine syn: thymine
     2: one of the four nucleotides used in building dna; all four
        nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar
        ribose syn: deoxythymidine monophosphate
     3: a unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms syn: metric
        ton, mt, tonne
     4: a unit of information equal to a trillion
        1,099,511,627,776 bytes or 1024 gigabytes syn: terabyte,
         tb
     5: the 20th letter of the roman alphabet
     6: thyroid hormone similar to thyroxine but with one less
        iodine atom per molecule and produced in smaller quantity;
        exerts the same biological effects as thyroxine but is
        more potent and briefer syn: triiodothyronine, liothyronine
     7: hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate
        metabolism by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells;
        "thyroxine is 65 iodine" syn: thyroxine, thyroxin, tetraiodothyronine
see also:
thymine deoxythymidine monophosphate metric ton mt tonne terabyte 
tb triiodothyronine liothyronine thyroxine thyroxin 
tetraiodothyronine 

t /t/ 1. from lisp terminology for `true' yes. used in reply to a
   question particularly one asked using the -p convention. in lisp,
   the constant t means `true', among other things. some lisp hackers use
   `t' and `nil' instead of `yes' and `no' almost reflexively. this
   sometimes causes misunderstandings. when a waiter or flight attendant
   asks whether a hacker wants coffee, he may absently respond `t', meaning
   that he wants coffee; but of course he will be brought a cup of tea
   instead. fortunately, most hackers particularly those who frequent
   chinese restaurants like tea at least as well as coffee -- so it is not
   that big a problem. 2. see time t also since time t equals minus
   infinity. 3. techspeak in transaction-processing circles, an
   abbreviation for the noun `transaction'. 4. purdue alternate spelling
   of tee. 5. a dialect of lisp developed at yale. there is an
   intended allusion to nil, "new implementation of lisp", another dialect
   of lisp developed for the vax


see also:
the -p convention time t since time t equals minus infinity tee lisp vax 

\t
     
        horizontal tabulation
     
     
see also:
horizontal tabulation 

t
     
        1. true.  a lisp compiler by johnathan a. rees in 1982 at
        yale university.  t has static scope and is a
        near-superset of scheme.  unix source is available.  t is
        written in itself and compiles to efficient native code.  used
        as the basis for the yale haskell system.  maintained by
        david kranz .
     
        current version: 3.1.
     
        ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/systems/t3.1.
     
        a multiprocessing version of t is available
        ftp://masala.lcs.mit.edu/pub/mult.
     
        runs on decstation, sparc, sun-3, vax under unix,
        encore, hp, apollo, macintosh under a/ux.
     
        e-mail:  bugs.
        e-mail: .
     
        1991-11-26
     
        "the t manual", johnathan a. rees  et
        al, yale u, 1984.
     
        2. a functional language.
     
        "t: a simple reduction language based on combinatory term
        rewriting", ida et al, proc of prog future generation
        computers, 1988.
     
        3. lower case the lisp atom used to represent "true",
        among other things.  "false" is represented using the same
        atom as an empty list, nil.  this overloading of the basic
        constants of the language helps to make lisp write-only
        code.
     
        4. in transaction-processing circles, an abbreviation for
        "transaction".
     
        5. purdue an alternative spelling of "tee".
     
     
see also:
lisp yale university static scope scheme unix haskell 
lt;ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/systems/t3.1gt; multiprocessing lt;ftp://masala.lcs.mit.edu/pub/multgt; decstation sparc 
sun-3 vax encore hp apollo 
macintosh a/ux functional language atom nil 
overloading write-only code tee