Appendix Acronyms T

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Acronyms - T

T Traveler

T1 1.544 MBps [Telephony], one of the basic signalling systems 24x64Kb

T3 45 MBps (eq 28 T1 channels) [Telephony]

TA Teaching Assistant

TAC Tactical Air Command (see SAC)

TAC Terminal Access Controller [ARPANET/MILNET] (replaced TIP)

TACACS Terminal Access Controller Access Control System [ARPANET/MILNET]

TACCS Tactical Army Combat service support Computer System

TAE Transportable Applications Environment

TAL Trans-Atlantic Abort Landing [NASA, Shuttle]

TAL Transatlantic Abort Landing (Shuttle abort plan) [Space]

TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch

TAR Tape ARchiver

TASI Time Assign{ment,ed} Speech Interpolation [Telephony]

TAU Thousand Astronomical Units [Space]

TB TuBerculosis

TBA To Be Announced

TBD To Be Determined

TBD To Be Done

TC Teachers College

TCA Terminal Controlled Airspace

TCP Transmission Control Protocol

TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TCS Thermal Control System [Space]

TCSEC Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (orange book)

TCT To Challenge Tomorrow

TD Tardive Dyskinesia

TD TouchDown

TD Treasury Department

TDCC Transportation Data Coordinating Committee

TDE Transition Diagram Editor

TDI Trusted Database Interpretation

TDM Time-Division Multiplexer

TDR Time Domain Reflectometer

TDRS Tracking and Data Relay Satellite [Space]

TDRSS Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System [Space]

TDY Temporary DutY

TECO Tape Editor and COrrector

TECO Text Editor and COrrector

TEFLON polyTEtraFLuOrethyleNe

TES Thermal Emission Spectrometer (on Mars Observer) [Space]

TFP Tops Filing Protocol

TFS Translucent File System

TFT The Fantasy Trip

TFT Thin Film Transistor

TG Thieves' Guild

TGV Tres Grande Vitesse (French, Very High Speed) [Railroading]

TGV Two Guys and a VAX (humourous variant) [Corporate name]

THIEF THief Isn't Even Fine

THIEF This Here Isn't Even Fine

THOR Tandy High-intensity Optical Recording

TI Texas Instruments

TIA Thanks In Advance [Net jargon]

TIA Transient Ischemic Attack

TIC TermInfo Compiler

TID Ter In Die (three times a day)

TID Transaction ID

TIFF Tag Image File Format

TIP Terminal Interface Processor [ARPANET/MILNET] (replaced by TAC)

TIS Trusted Information Systems [Corporate name]

TISN Tokyo International Science Network (Japan)

TKO Technical Knock Out [Boxing]

TL Total Loss

TLA Three Letter Acronym

TLC Tender Loving Care

TLI Transort-Level Interface

TM TradeMark

TMA Tycho Magnetic Anomaly (movie 2001)

TMAC Treasury department's Multiuser Acquisition Contract

TMIS Telecommunications Management Information System

TMO Telephone Money Order

TMP The Morrow Project

TMRC Tech Model Railroad Club [MIT]

TMRC Transportation Modeling Research Center (TMRC {above} alter ego)

TN Tennessee

TN Twisted Nematic

TNC Threaded Neill Concelman (connector) [Electronics] (see also BNC)

TNF Tumor Necrosis Factor [Biology, Medicine]

TNP Tech Nickel Plate (RR) [TMRC]

TNT TriNitro Toluene

TO Telegraph Office

TO Turn Over

TODS Transactions on Database Systems (ACM)

TOMS Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer [Space]

TOMS Transactions on Mathematical Software (ACM)

TOOIS Transactions on Office Information Systems (ACM)

TOP Technical Office Protocol

TOPLAS Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (ACM)

TOPS Traffic Operator Position System [Telephony]

TOPSMP Traffic Operator Position System Multipurpose [Telephony]

TORES Text ORiented Editing System

TOS Transfer Orbit Stage [Space]

TOW Tube launched, Optically tracked, and Wire guided

TOY Time Of Year (clock)

TP Transaction Processing

TP Transport Protocol (ISO/CCITT Transport Services (TP0-TP4); like TCP)

TP4 Transport Protocol, class 4 [ISO]

TPC The Phone Company (from classic movie: _The President's Analyst_)

TPI Tracks Per Inch

TPO Traveling Post Office

TPP TetraarylPorPhyrin

TPS Technical Publishing Software

TPS TeleProcessing Services

TPS Thermal Protection System [Space]

TR Tech Report (at least at LCS (q.v.), maybe others)

TR Technical Reference [Bell, Telephony]

TRG Tip and Ring Ground (test) [Telephony]

TROFF Text RunOFF, text formatter

TRUSIX TRUSted unIX

TRW Thompson, Ramo, and Woolridge

TS Top Secret

TSAP Transport Service Access Point [OSI, Networking]

TSD Total System Design

TSP Teleprocessing Services Program

TSP Thrift Savings Plan

TSP Time Synchronization Protocol

TSP TriSodium Phosphate

TSR TSR (Fortune 500 Company that manufactures Dungeons & Dragons)

TSS Tethered Satellite System [Space]

TSTO Two Stage to Orbit [Space]

T&T Tunnels & Trolls

TTFN Tah Tah, For Now

TTL Transistor Transistor Logic

TTMA Tennessee Tech Microcomputer Association

TTU Tennessee Technological University

TTY TeleTYpe

TUNIS Toronto UNIversity System

TV TeleVision

TVA Tennessee Valley Authority

TW Thieves' World

TWA Trans World Airlines [Corporate name]

TWB Terrestrial WideBand [Networking, DARPA]

TWIMC To Whom It May Concern

TWT Traveling Wave Tube

TWX TeletypeWriter eXchange

TX Texas

Tx Transmit