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th
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun th has 2 senses
- th(n = noun.time) thursday - the fifth day of the week; the fourth working day; Array is a kind of weekday
- th(n = noun.substance) atomic number 90, thorium - a soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic element; isotope 232 is used as a power source in nuclear reactors; occurs in thorite and in monazite sands; Array is a kind of metal, metallic element
has particulars: radiothorium, thorium-228
CIDE DICTIONARY
th,
In Old English, the article the, when the following word began with a vowel, was often written with elision as if a part of the word. Thus in Chaucer, the forms thabsence, tharray, thegle, thend, thingot, etc., are found for the absence, the array, the eagle, the end, etc. [1913 Webster]
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