tet
IPA: tˈɛt
noun
- (uncountable, informal, medicine) The tetralogy of Fallot.
- (countable, informal, medicine) A patient with tetralogy of Fallot.
- (informal, horticulture) A tetraploid plant cultivar (iris, daylily etc.).
- (geometry, engineering) A tetrahedron; a tetrahedral finite element.
- (informal, fishkeeping) A tetra (freshwater fish).
- Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- The Tet Offensive, in the Vietnam War.
- An ancient Egyptian symbol of the god Osiris, in form a small pillar with a number of flat sections towards the top.
- Alternative form of teth (“Semitic letter”). [The ninth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).]
- (informal, pharmacology) Clipping of tetracycline. [(pharmacology, uncountable) A yellow crystalline broad-spectrum antibiotic C₂₂H₂₄N₂O₈ produced by streptomyces or synthetically.]
- (numismatic slang) Clipping of tetradrachm. [(historical, numismatics) A silver coin in Ancient Greece, equivalent to four drachms.]
- (informal, pathology) Clipping of tetanus. [(pathology, countable) A serious and often fatal disease caused by the infection of an open wound with the anaerobic bacterium Clostridium tetani, found in soil and the intestines and faeces of animals.]
- Obsolete form of teat. [(anatomy) The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted.]
- (chemistry) Initialism of tetraethyltin. [(organic chemistry) An organotin compound with chemical formula C₈H₂₀Sn, used in the electronics industry.]
- (computing) Initialism of transparency-enhancing tool.
- (medicine) Initialism of thymic epithelial tumor.
- (physics) Initialism of targeted energy transfer.
adjective
- (geometry, engineering) Tetrahedral.
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Examples of "tet" in Sentences
- Banh tet is kind of like some of the central american tamales, I've tried.
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