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Translingual
Symbol
CTE
- (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for the Canton and Enderbury Islands from 1974 to 1984.
- Synonym: CT (alpha-2)
Usage notes
The code was deprecated in favour of KIR following the transfer of control to Kiribati in 1979 and the relinquishment of claims over the islands by the United States in 1983.
English
Noun
CTE (countable and uncountable, plural CTEs)
- (pathology, neurology) Initialism of chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
- (physics) Initialism of coefficient of thermal expansion.
- (databases, countable) Initialism of common table expression.
2008, Robin Dewson, Beginning SQL Server 2008 Express for Developers, Apress, →ISBN, page 433:A recursive CTE is where an initial CTE is built and then the results from that are called recursively in a UNION statement returning subsets of data until all the data is returned. This gives you the ability to create data in a hierarchical fashion, as you will see in the next example.
Proper noun
CTE
- (Singapore, in road signs) Abbreviation of Central Expressway.
Anagrams
- etc., tce, ect., ECT, CET, TEC, TCE, 'Tec, ETC, etc, 'tec