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CTE en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
   alt of chronic traumatic encephalopathy
   • NFL players Ray Easterling, Junior Seau, Shane Dronett and Dave Duerson were found to have CTE after careers of repeated blows to the head. All died by suicide. 2020 January 26, Leah Asmelash, “Why traumatic brain injuries can be dangerous”, in CNN:
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of coefficient of thermal expansion.
   alt of coefficient of thermal expansion
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism) Initialism of common table expression.
   alt of common table expression
   • 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. 2008, Robin Dewson, Beginning SQL Server 2008 Express for Developers, Apress, →ISBN, page 433:

Forms

CTE en · PROPN

Meanings

1. (Singapore, abbreviation, alt-of, in road signs) Abbreviation of Central Expressway.
   alt of Central Expressway