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TeX

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • //tɛx//
  • //tɛk//

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

proper noun

  1. 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.

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.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).