TE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Te mean? 

• TE (noun)
  The noun TE has 2 senses:

1. a brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur; it is used in alloys and as a semiconductor; occurs mainly as tellurides in ores of copper and nickel and silver and gold

2. the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization

  Familiarity information: TE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur; it is used in alloys and as a semiconductor; occurs mainly as tellurides in ores of copper and nickel and silver and gold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

atomic number 52; Te; tellurium

Hypernyms ("Te" is a kind of...):

chemical element; element (any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter)

Holonyms ("Te" is a substance of...):

graphic tellurium; sylvanite (a silver-white mineral consisting of silver gold telluride; a source of gold in Australia and America)

telluride (any binary compound of tellurium with other more electropositive elements)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

si; te; ti

Hypernyms ("te" is a kind of...):

solfa syllable (one of the names for notes of a musical scale in solmization)

 Context examples 

The HLA antigens are encoded by closely linked multiallelic genes of the HLA (MHC) complex, a region containing several genetic loci (HLA-A, -B, -C, -DP, -DQ, -DR, -MB, -MT, and -Te).

(MHC Class I Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Our dinner was _tête-à-tête_, and though my host did his best to be entertaining, his thoughts seemed to continually wander, and he talked so vaguely and wildly that I could hardly understand him.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)