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Tex

name
/tɛks//tɛx/

Etymology

The letters of the name are meant to represent the capital Greek letters Τ (tau), Ε (epsilon), and Χ (chi), as TeX is an abbreviation of Ancient Greek τέχνη (tékhnē), which is also the root word of technical.

  1. derived from τέχνη

Definitions

  1. A masculine nickname, especially for a Texan.

  2. A milligram per meter, a unit of linear mass density for thread or fiber.

  3. Alternative form of text.

    • I have walked, […] painting these texes on every wall.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A digital typesetting system used primarily for the formatting of mathematical formulae.

      • TFFI-mode makes it possible for BibTeX to work on plain TeX documents as well.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Tex. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA