Word.ws English Dictionary

tet

tet is the alternative form of teth.

tet is the clipping of tetracycline.

tet is the clipping of tetradrachm.

tet is the clipping of tetanus.

tet is the obsolete form of teat.

Noun (1)

tet (countable and uncountable, plural tets)

  1. (informal, uncountable) The tetralogy of Fallot.
  2. (countable, informal) A patient with tetralogy of Fallot.

Meaning of teth

Noun

teth (plural teths)

  1. The ninth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Meaning of tetracycline

Noun

tetracycline (countable and uncountable, plural tetracyclines, abbreviation tet)

  1. (uncountable) A yellow crystalline broad-spectrum antibiotic C₂₂H₂₄N₂O₈ produced by streptomyces or synthetically.
  2. (countable) Any of a large group of antibiotics with the same general structure derived from tetracene with many hydroxyl and other groups.

Noun (2)

tet (plural tets)

  1. (informal) A tetraploid plant cultivar (iris, daylily etc.).
    • Tets are 44-chromosome conversions from 22-chromosome diploids, created by elaborate means involving colchicine, a chemical found naturally in crocuses. Only a tet can pollinate a tet, but some tets can pollinate themselves.2017, Susan Brownmiller, “Daylily Dreams”, in My City Highrise Garden, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 84

Noun (3)

tet (plural tets)

  1. A tetrahedron; a tetrahedral finite element.

Adjective

tet (not comparable)

  1. Tetrahedral.

Noun (4)

tet (plural tets)

  1. (informal) A tetra (freshwater fish).
    • All the tetras in my tank (3 species - black neons, Pristellas, and red eyes) died within a 36 hour period. The corys and otos in the same tank are fine.
      There was no change in water quality, feeding habits, or water temperature. I have no idea why all the tets would die in such a short time span.1998 January 24, LASP, “Dead tetras”, in rec.aquaria.freshwater.misc (Usenet)

Noun (5) capitalized: TET

TET (countable and uncountable, plural TETs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of tetraethyltin.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of transparency-enhancing tool.
    • TETs of the first and last categories are also called ex-ante TETs, as they provide transparency of any intended data processing to the data subjects before they are releasing any personal data.2012, John R. Vacca, Computer and Information Security Handbook, →ISBN, page 767
    • There are two classes of TETs that can be leveraged to identify, assess, and mitigate risks related to the lack of awareness on OSNs: user-side tools and provider-side tools.2014, Johannes Buchmann, Internet Privacy: Options for adequate realisation, →ISBN, page 75
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of thymic epithelial tumor.
    • TETs were classified according to Müller-Hermelink and co-workers [15, 19].2012, Premkumar Christadoss, Myasthenia Gravis: Disease Mechanism and Immunointervention, →ISBN
    • We conducted a multicenter study to determine the activity and tolerability of this regimen in pretreated TETs.2012, Q. Ashton Acton, Antimetabolites: Advances in Research and Application, →ISBN
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of targeted energy transfer.
    • Moreover, we demonstrate that SMRs are related to relaxation oscillations of the corresponding averaged dynamical flows (the slow flows of the dynamics), and in fact, one can regard SMRs as a form of repetitive TETs under the action of persistent periodic forcing.2008, Alexander F. Vakakis, Oleg V. Gendelman, Lawrence A. Bergman, Nonlinear Targeted Energy Transfer in Mechanical and Structural Systems, →ISBN
    • In an earlier work we showed computationally that it is possible to successfully employ nonlinear targeted energy transfers (TETs) for seismic mitigation.2008 June, F Nucera, FL Iacono, DM McFarland, LA Bergman, AF Vakakis, “Application of broadband nonlinear targeted energy transfers for seismic mitigation of a shear frame: Experimental results”, in...

Proper noun capitalized: Tet

Tet

  1. Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
    • 1981, Mimi Holtzman, TET: celebrating the Vietnamese New Year, Voices in Educational Transition, 114
    • 2004, Ngọc Bích Nguyễn, Tet!: the Vietamese New Year, East Coast U.S.A. Vietnamese Pub. Consortium, 141
  2. The Tet Offensive, in the Vietnam War.

Noun (6) capitalized: Tet

Tet (plural Tets)

  1. An ancient Egyptian symbol of the god Osiris, in form a small pillar with a number of flat sections towards the top.
    • To develop the higher mind one must first lower himself to raise the serpent, or set up the Tet pillar of Osiris.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 222

Forms of tet

pluraltets
pluralTETs
pluralTets

Origin of tet

See teth.

Clipping of tetracycline.

Clipping of tetralogy.

Words formed from tet

Phrases with tet

Questions about tet

What does tet mean?
Tet means the tetralogy of Fallot.
What is tet the alternative form of?
Tet is the alternative form of teth.
What part of speech is tet?
Tet can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
What is the plural of tet?
The plural of tet is tets.

Words near tet in the dictionary

  1. testæ
  2. tesuji
  3. Tesuque
  4. Tesuques
  5. tesvino
  6. tet
  7. tet spell
  8. tet spells
  9. Teta
  10. tetanal
  11. tetani

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tet (page history and authors); TET (page history and authors); Tet (page history and authors); teth (page history and authors); tetracycline (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-tet.wav.

Cite this entry: “tet.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tet. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.