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I found out some old documentation introducing generics to C# 2.0 (source: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms379564(v=vs.80).a...) where it is said, that <T> stands for "Type" (as you said in your question).

I also looked at Scala's documentation and found out the following: "Generic classes take a type as a parameter within square brackets []. One convention is to use the letter A as type parameter identifier, though any parameter name may be used." (source: http://docs.scala-lang.org/tutorials/tour/generic-classes.ht...).

Hope it helps.