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1)a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine
    Synonyms :thymine 
    See Also: pyrimidine  deoxyribonucleic_acid 
 
2)one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose)
    Synonyms :deoxythymidine_monophosphate 
    See Also: nucleotide 
 
3)a unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms
    Synonyms :metric_ton mt tonne 
    See Also: metric_weight_unit  quintal 
 
4)a unit of information equal to a trillion (1,099,511,627,776) bytes or 1024 gigabytes
    Synonyms :tb terabyte 
    See Also: computer_memory_unit  g 
 
5)the 20th letter of the Roman alphabet
    Synonyms :
    See Also: alphabetic_character  latin_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
    Synonyms :liothyronine triiodothyronine 
    See Also: thyroid_hormone 
 
7)hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells; "thyroxine is 65% iodine"
    Synonyms :tetraiodothyronine thyroxin thyroxine 
    See Also: thyroid_hormone 
 

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

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 kranz@masala.lcs.mit.edu.

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: t3-bugs@cs.yale.edu (bugs). E-mail: t-project@cs.yale.edu.

(1991-11-26)

["The T Manual", Johnathan A. Rees jar@zurich.ai.mit.edu 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".



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