Tau (disambiguation)

Tau (Τ or τ) is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.

Tau may also refer to:

Geography

• Tau, Norway, a small town in Strand municipality, Rogaland county, Norway
• Tău, two villages in Romania
• Tau, American Samoa (Taʻū), an island in the Manuʻa Island Group of American Samoa
• Tau (Tongatapu), the most northern offshore island of Tongatapu, Tonga
• Tau (Haʻapai), an island in the southern part of Haʻapai, Tonga
• Tau (Botswana), a village at the base of the Tswapong Hills in Botswana

Science and technology

• Tau neutrino a subatomic elementary particle
• Tau (particle), also called Tau lepton, an elementary particle in particle physics
• Tau protein, a biochemical protein associated with microtubules
• Tau, the standard astronomical abbreviation for Taurus (constellation)
• Tau, a mutation in the Casein kinase 1 epsilon protein, in circadian biology
• Rational Tau, a UML and SysML modeling tool
• Tau emerald, a species of dragonfly
• Opsanus tau, the scientific name for the oyster toadfish

Mathematics

• Tau (mathematical constant), a circle constant equal to 2π (6.28318...)
• Tau test in statistics (tau-a, tau-b and tau-c tests or Kendall tau rank correlation coefficient)
• Tau functions, several

Psychology

• Tau effect, a sensory illusion relating to the perception of space

Music

• Tău (Negură Bunget album), a 2015 album by Romanian black metal band Negură Bunget

Fiction

• Tau (Warhammer 40,000), an alien race from the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe
• Tau, a character in the Battle Arena Toshinden fighting game series
• Pan Tau, hero of Czech films and television series
• Tau Zero, a novel by Poul Anderson
• Tau Volantis, a planet shown in Dead Space 3
• Tau Cannon, an energy weapon from the video game Half-Life

Theology

• Tau (mythology), an evil spirit in Guaraní mythology
• The Cross of Tau, a Christian symbol so called due to its resemblance to the letter Tau

People

• Jimmy Tau, South African football (soccer) player
• Max Tau, a German-Norwegian writer, editor, and publisher
• Nicolae Țâu, a Moldovan politician who was Foreign Minister of Moldova between 1990 and 1993
• Parks Tau, the mayor of the city of Johannesburg, South Africa from 2011-2016
• Tau (rapper), a Polish rapper

Film

• Tau (film), 2018 film

As an acronym

• TAU (spacecraft), a proposal to send a space probe to a thousand astronomical units from the Earth
• Tama Art University
• Tel Aviv University
• Texila American University
• Anna University of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
• Tourist Association of Ukraine

See also

• Tau for uses of the Greek letter Τ/τ
• Tău (disambiguation), several places in Romania
• Tau function (disambiguation)