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TBU

TBU is the initialism of to be updated.

TBU is the initialism of tone-bearing unit.

Meaning of tone-bearing unit

Noun

tone-bearing unit (plural tone-bearing units)

  1. In autosegmental phonology, a segment, usually a syllable nucleus, which can be associated with a tone.

Noun capitalized: tBu

tBu (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, in-compounds) Abbreviation of tert-butyl, styled as ᵗBu

Forms of TBU

pluralTBUs

Questions about TBU

What is TBU the initialism of?
TBU is the initialism of to be updated.
What part of speech is TBU?
TBU is a noun.
What is the plural of TBU?
The plural of TBU is TBUs.

Words near TBU in the dictionary

  1. TBT
  2. TBTF
  3. tbth
  4. TBTs
  5. TBTWP
  6. TBU
  7. tbulge
  8. tbulges
  9. tBuO
  10. TBUs
  11. TBV

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: TBU (page history and authors); tBu (page history and authors); tone-bearing unit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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