ExpertGlossary terms starting with T

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  1. Tiers du cylindre French phrase. Common in European casinos. It's a bet on a specific group of numbers on a section of the roulette wheel that are paired neighbours on the…
  2. TIES Technology Integration Equipment System.
  3. TIFF Tagged Image File Format - a graphic file format used for storing still-image bitmaps.
  4. TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) an electronic copy of a paper document in the form of an image, and as such contains no embedded text, fonts, images, or graphics (cf. PDF format).
  5. TIFF Group III (compression) A one-dimensional compression format for storing black and white images that is utilized by many fax machines. See TIFF.
  6. TIFF Group IV (compression) A two-dimensional compression format for storing black and white images. Typically compresses at a 20-to-1 ratio for standard business documents. See TIFF.
  7. Tight This is an undesirable condition of the race car. A NASCAR race car is tight when the front wheels loose grip before the rear wheels loose grip when going…
  8. tight buffer See buffer.
  9. Tight Control Suggested by the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial ten year study and the American Diabetes Association as an important way to delay the onset and…
  10. tight-action plug A lure with short, rapid side-to-side movement. Typically used when fish are more active in spring, summer and fall.
  11. TIIAP Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program.
  12. TIL Until
  13. Tile Pipe made of baked clay.
  14. tiling See block distortion.
  15. Till A deposit of sediment formed under a glacier, consisting of an unlayered mixture of clay, silt, sand, and gravel ranging widely in size and shape.
  16. Tillage Plowing, seedbed preparation, and cultivation practices. See conventional tillage.
  17. Tilt To play wildly or recklessly. A player is said to be "on tilt" if he is not playing his best, playing too many hands, trying wild bluffs, raising with bad…
  18. Tilt Angle (of a Solar Collector or Module) The angle at which a solar collector or module is set to face the sun relative to a horizontal position.
  19. Tilt Sequence Radar term indicating that the radar antenna is scanning through a series of antenna elevations in order to obtain a volume scan.
  20. Tilted Storm A thunderstorm or cloud tower which is not purely vertical but instead exhibits a slanted or tilted character.
  21. Tilted Updraft A thunderstorm updraft which is not purely vertical but instead exhibits a slanted or tilted character.
  22. Tilth Soil condition in relation to lump or particle size.
  23. TIM Technical Interchange Meeting. 300
  24. Timber Wood beams larger than 4 x 6.
  25. Timber stand improvement Intermediate pruning, weeding, and thinning of a stand of timber prior to its reaching mature rotation age to improve growing conditions and control stand…
  26. Timberhead One or two upright mushroom-shaped pins on the head and stern of barge used for the coupling or barges for end-to-end towing.
  27. Timbering Wood bracing in a tunnel or excavation.
  28. Timbering set A tunnel support consisting of a roof beam or arch, and two posts.
  29. Timberland Forest land capable of producing 20 cubic feet of wood per acre per year.
  30. Time (1) A request by a player to suspend play while he decides what he's going to do. Simply, "Time, please!
  31. time ambiguity A situation in which more than one different time or time measurement can be obtained under the stated conditions.
  32. time availability Synonym circuit reliability.
  33. time block An arbitrary grouping of several consecutive hours of a day, usually for a particular season, during which it is assumed that propagation data are…
  34. time bomb In COMSEC, a logic bomb to be activated at a predetermined time. [2382-pt.8] 2.
  35. Time Certificate of Deposit A time deposit evidenced by a negotiable or nonnegotiable instrument specifying an amount and maturity.
  36. time code A code used for the transmission and identification of time signals. Note: In telecommunications systems, the format of the time code must be specified.
  37. time code ambiguity The shortest interval between successive repetitions of the same time code value.
  38. time code resolution The interval between two successive time code states. Note: Time code resolution is determined by the most rapidly changing symbol position within the…
  39. time constant The interval required for a system or circuit to change a specified fraction from one state or condition to another.
  40. Time deposit A time deposit (also known as a term deposit) is a money deposit at a bank that cannot be withdrawn for a certain "term" or period of time.
  41. time diversity Transmission in which signals representing the same information are sent over the same channel at different times.
  42. time division See time-division multiplexing.
  43. time guard band A time interval left vacant on a channel to provide a margin of safety against intersymbol interference in the time domain between sequential operations…
  44. time instability The fluctuation of the time interval error caused by the instability of a real clock.
  45. time interval error (TIE) The time difference between a real clock and an ideal uniform time scale, after a time interval following perfect synchronization between the clock and…
  46. time jitter Short-term variation or instability in the duration of a specified time interval.
  47. time marker A reference signal, often repeated periodically, enabling the correlation of specific events with a time scale, such as for establishing synchronization.
  48. Time of concentration The time required for storm runoff to flow from the most remote point of a catchment or drainage area to the outlet or point under consideration.
  49. Time of Flight (Max) The maximum time for a booster or vehicle to perform its function from time of launch.
  50. time of occurrence The date of an event, i.e., the instant an event occurs, with reference to a specified time scale.
  51. Time on Station The time the sensor is in its operating position.
  52. Time Savings The amount of time saved as a direct result of the equipment, technology and/or support personnel funded by a MORE grant.
  53. time scale A time measuring system defined to relate the passage of temporal events since a selected epoch.
  54. time scale factor A multiplier used to transform the real time of occurrence of an event or a problem into system time, such as that of a telecommunications system or a…
  55. Time Sensitive Targets Those target requiring immediate response because they pose (or will soon pose) a clear and present danger to friendly forces or are highly lucrative…
  56. time series data Data provided as part of a metric. The time value is assumed to be when the value occurred.
  57. time server The server maintaining and distributing the correct date and time over a computer network. Note: There is usually a special time-distribution protocol.
  58. time slot Period of time during which certain activities are governed by specific regulations. [JP1] 2. A time interval that can be recognized and uniquely defined.
  59. time stamp A date/time string in ISO 8601 format.
  60. time stamp (TS) 1. A data field in which is recorded (typically with a resolution of 1 millisecond) the cumulative variable queuing delay experienced by a packet in…
  61. time standard A stable device that emits signals at equal intervals such that their count may be used as a clock.
  62. time tick A time mark output of a clock system.
  63. Time To Live (TTL) The time limit on how long a copy of an object remains in the cache before NetCache verifies the object with the originating Web server.
  64. time to progression A measure of time after a disease is diagnosed (or treated) until the disease starts to get worse.
  65. Time to Station The time required to move a sensor to its operating position.
  66. Time value of money The concept that money today is worth more than the same amount in the future, when inflation has reduced its value.
  67. time-assignment speech interpolation (TASI) An analog technique used on certain long transmission links to increase voice-transmission capacity.
  68. time-consistent busy hour (TCBH) The identical hour each day during which, over a number of days, the highest average traffic is measured. [T1.Rpt 11-1991]
  69. time-delay distortion Synonym delay distortion.
  70. time-derived channel See time-division multiplexing.
  71. time-division multiple access (TDMA) A communications technique that uses a common channel (multipoint or broadcast) for communications among multiple users by allocating unique time slots to…
  72. time-division multiplexing (TDM) Digital multiplexing in which two or more apparently simultaneous channels are derived from a given frequency spectrum, i.e.
  73. time-division switching Switching of time-division multiplexed (TDM) channels by shifting bits between time slots in a TDM frame.
  74. time-domain reflectometer (TDR) An electronic instrument used to characterize and locate faults in metallic cables (e.g., twisted pair, coax).
  75. time-gated direct-sequence spread spectrum Direct-sequence spread spectrum where the transmitter is on only for a short fraction of a time interval.
  76. Time-of-Use (TOU) Rates The pricing of electricity based on the estimated cost of electricity during a particular time block.
  77. Time-of-use pricing A rate design imposing higher charges to customers during periods of the day when higher demand is experienced.
  78. time-out A network parameter related to an enforced event designed to occur at the conclusion of a predetermined elapsed time. 2.
  79. Time-Phased Force and Deployment List Appendix 1 to Annex A of the operation plan. It identifies types and/or actual units required to support the operation plan and indicates origin and ports…
  80. time-sharing The interleaving of two or more independent processes on one functional unit. 2.
  81. time-slice multithreading the ability of a CPU to issue more than one thread of the same process into multiple pipelines on the same clock cycle.
  82. time-variant value In cryptography, a value that changes with each transaction or with each message value. [After X9.19]
  83. timeliness See responsiveness.
  84. Timer A device that can be set to automatically turn appliances (lights) off and on at set times.
  85. Timer (Water Heater) This device can automatically turn the heater off at night and on in the morning.
  86. timesharing system An operating system that shares processor time between multiple processes by allocating each a timeslice.
  87. timeslice The amount of running time allocated to a process or thread before the scheduler considers another to be run.
  88. timing extraction Synonym timing recovery.
  89. timing jitter The short-term variations of the significant instants of a digital signal from their ideal positions in time.
  90. timing recovery The derivation of a timing signal from a received signal. Synonym timing extraction.
  91. timing signal The output of a clock. 2. A signal used to synchronize interconnected equipment.
  92. timing tracking accuracy A measure of the ability of a timing synchronization system to minimize the clock difference between a master clock and any slaved clock.
  93. TIMS Training Integration Management System (USAF term).
  94. TIN Theater Intelligence Networks.
  95. tin ethyl etiopurpurin An anticancer drug that is also used in cancer prevention. It belongs to the family of drugs called photosensitizing agents. Also called SnET2.
  96. tin Sn 117m DTPA A radioactive chemical being studied to treat bone pain associated with cancer.
  97. tinidazole A drug used to treat protozoal infections, such as amebiasis, giardiasis, and trichomoniasis. It belongs to a family of drugs called antiprotozoal agents.
  98. Tinnitus (tih-NY-tus) A disorder in which a person hears noises such as buzzing, ringing, clicking, or the sound of a pulse, when no outside sound is causing them.
  99. tinzaparin (tin-ZA-puh-rin) A drug that is used with another drug, warfarin, to treat blood clots that form deep in the veins and to prevent new blood clots from…
  100. tinzaparin sodium (tin-ZA-puh-rin SOH-dee-um) A drug that is used with another drug, warfarin, to treat blood clots that form deep in the veins and to prevent new blood…