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Transept
Full descriptions of the elements of a Gothic floorplan are found at the entry Cathedral diagram.
In Romanesque and Gothic architecture Christian church architecture, the transept is the area set crosswise to the nave in a cruciform building. The transept separates the nave from the sanctuary, whether apse, quire, chevet, presbytery or chancel.
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Transfer RNA
Transfer RNA is a small RNA chain that transfers a specific amino acid to a growing polypeptide chain at the ribosomal site of protein synthesis during translation. It has a site for amino acid attachment and a three-nucleotide region called the anticodon that recognizes the corresponding three-base codon region on mRNA via complementary base pairing.
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Transfiguration of Jesus
The Transfiguration of Jesus is an event reported by the Synoptic Gospels in which Jesus was transfigured upon a mountain. The original Greek term in the Gospels is metamorphothe, describing Jesus as having undergone Metamorphosis.
The Gospels state that Jesus led three of Twelve Apostles - Simon Peter, John the Apostle, and James the Great - to pray at the top of a mountain.
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Transformer
A transformer is an electrical device that transfers energy from one electrical network to another by Inductive coupling with no moving parts. A transformer comprises two or more coupled coil#Electromagnetic, or a single tap winding and, in most cases, a magnetic core to concentrate magnetic flux.
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Transgender
Transgender is an overarching term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies that diverge from the normative gender role commonly, but not always, assigned at birth, as well as the role traditionally held by society.
Transgender is the state of one's "gender identity" not matching one's "assigned gender" .
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Transistor
The transistor is a three terminal Solid state semiconductor device that can be used for Electronic amplifier, switching, voltage stabilization, signal modulation and many other functions.
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Translation
Translation is an activity comprising the interpretation of the Meaning of a text in one language — the source text — and the production, in another language, of a new, equivalent text — the target text, or translation.
Traditionally, translation has been a human activity, although attempts have been made to automate and computerize the translation of natural-language texts — machine translation — or to use computers as an aid to translation — computer-assisted translation
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Transmission Control Protocol
The Transmission Control Protocol is one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite. Using TCP, applications on networked hosts can create connections to one another, over which they can exchange data in packets. The protocol guarantees reliable and in-order delivery of data from sender to receiver.
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Transmission line
A transmission line is the material Transmission medium or structure that forms all or part of a path from one place to another for directing the transmission of energy, such as electromagnetic waves or acoustic waves, as well as electric power transmission.
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Transmitter
A transmitter is an Electronics machine which with the aid of an antenna propagates an electromagnetic radiation Signalling such as radio, television, or other telecommunications.
A transmitter usually has a electronic power supply, an electronic oscillator, a modulator, and amplifiers for Sound and radio frequency .
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Transom
Transom is the architecture term given to the horizontal lintel or beam which is framed across a window, dividing it into stages or heights. In early Gothic architecture ecclesiastical work transoms are only found in belfry unglazed windows or spire lights, where they were deemed necessary to strengthen the mullions in the absence of the iron stay bars, which in glazed windows served a similar purpose.
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Transonic
Transonic is an aeronautics term referring to a range of velocities just below and above the speed of sound. It is defined as the range of speeds between the critical mach, when some parts of the airflow over an aircraft become supersonic, and a higher speed, typically near Mach number, when all of the airflow is supersonic.
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Transplants
Transplants are an United States punk rock/Hip hop music band. They formed in 1999 when Tim Armstrong of the band Rancid played his friend and roadie Rob Aston some beats he had made using Pro Tools and asked Rob if he would consider contributing lyrics.
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Transponder
In telecommunication, the term transponder has the following meanings:
* An automatic information appliance that receiver , amplifier, and reTransmission s a Signalling on a different frequency .
* An automatic device that transmits a predetermined message in response to a predefined received signal.
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Transport
Transport or transportation is the travel of Passenger and Cargo from one place to another. The term is derived from the Latin trans and portare .
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Transportation Security Administration
*Incidents of theft by its employees of airline passenger possessions
*Lavish spending by TSA officials on events unrelated to airport security
*Inadequate training and lack of background checks of employees
*A popular alternate meaning for the acronym TSA is "Thousands Standing Around" due to perceived inefficiency.
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Transvaal
For the Russian theme park, see Transvaal park.
The Transvaal was one of the Provinces of South Africa of South Africa from 1910 until 1994. The province no longer exists, and its territory now forms the provinces of Gauteng, Limpopo Province and Mpumalanga Province and part of the North West Province.
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Tranylcypromine
Tranylcypromine is a monoamine oxidase inhibitor used as an antidepressant medication.
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Trapa
Trapa is the genus of the water caltrop, T. natans, and the horn nut, T. bicornis. It is classified in the order Myrtales.
Trapa is the sole genus in the monotypic family Trapaceae. This family is sometimes treated as a subgroup of the Onagraceae or as the subfamily Trapoideae of the Lythraceae.
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Trapeze
Trapeze is the overall name for a collection of closely related aerial apparatus. All trapezes are
horizontal cross-bars used by acrobaticss. It is often popularly associated with circus.
The trapeze is a short bar that is hung by two cords from a support higher up; when these cords and the support are included, the trapeze is shaped like a trapezoid.
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Trapezohedron
The n-gonal trapezohedron or deltohedron is the dual polyhedron of a regular n-gonal antiprism. Its 2n faces are congruent kite. The faces are symmetrically staggered.
The name trapezohedron is misleading as the faces are not trapezoids, but the alternative deltohedron is sometimes confused with the unrelated term deltahedron.
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Trapezoid
A trapezoid or trapezium is a quadrilateral two of whose sides are parallel to each other. Some authors define it as a quadrilateral having exactly one pair of parallel sides, so as to exclude parallelograms.
The exactly opposite concept, a quadrilateral that has no parallel sides, is referred to as a trapezium in North America, and as a trapezoid in Britain and elsewhere.
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Trappists
The Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, or Trappists, are a contemplative Roman Catholic religious order, that follows the Rule of St. Benedict.
They are a branch of the Cistercians and like the other Cistercian order they also have a women's branch commonly referred to as the Trappistines.
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Trave
The Trave is a river of Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany. It is approximately 124 kilometres long, running from its source near a village named Gieelrade in Ostholstein to Travemnde where it flows into the Baltic Sea. It passes through Bad Segeberg, Bad Oldesloe, and Lbeck, where it is linked to the Elbe-Lbeck Canal.
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Travelogue
Travelogue is the second full-length studio album released by English synthpop band The Human League. It was the last Human League album released before the departure of founding members Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh.
Virgin Records remastered and re-issued Travelogue in 1988 with an expanded track listing which included early singles and the Holiday '80 EP.
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Trawler
A trawler is a fishing vessel designed for the purpose of operating a trawl, a fishing net that is dragged along the bottom of the sea.
A trawler can also refer to a Trawler which is a recreational boat so named because it resembles a fishing trawler.
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Tray
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Trazodone
Trazodone is a psychoactive compound with sedative, anxiolytic, and antidepressant properties. The manufacturer claims that the antidepressant activity becomes evident in the first week of therapy. Trazodone has less prominent anticholinergic and adrenolytic side effects than most tricyclic antidepressants.
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Tread
The tread of a tire or caterpillar track refers to the pattern visible on its circumference that makes contact with the road. As tires are used, the tread is worn down limiting their effectiveness in providing traction. A worn tire tread can be replaced with a process known as retreading.
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Treadmill
A treadmill is a piece of indoor sporting equipment used to allow for running without moving any distance. The word treadmill etymology a type of mill which was operated by a person treading steps of a wheel to ground grain
The principle is a conveyor belt where the top of the belt moves to the rear so as to allow a runner to run an equal, and necessarily opposite speed.
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Treadwheel
The word treadmill, originally a type of mill operated by a person treading steps of a wheel to ground grain, now designates a piece of indoor sporting equipment for running without moving any distance.
A treadwheel is a form of animal engine powered by man. It may resemble a water wheel in appearance, and can be worked either by a man treading paddles set into its circumference, or by a human standing inside it.
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Treasure Chest
Treasure Chest was a Catholic-oriented comic book created by Dayton, Ohio publisher George A. Pflaum and distributed in parochial schools from 1946 to 1972. Its inspirational stories of sports and folk hero, saints, school kids, Catholic living, history, science and similar topics were drawn by artists that included such prominent figures as EC's Reed Crandall, Graham Ingels and Joe Orlando, Marvel Comics' Joe Sinnott, and DC Comics' Murphy Anderson.
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Treasure ship
Treasure ship is the name of a type of ship that the China admiral Zheng He sailed in. His fleet included 62 treasure ships, with some reaching 600 foot long. On the ships, there were over 28,000 people, including navigators, explorers, sailors, physicians, workers, and soldiers.
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Treasurer
In many governments, a treasurer is the person responsible for running the treasury. Treasurers are also employed by organisations to look after funds.
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Treaty
A treaty is a binding agreement under international law entered into by actors in international law, namely states and international organizations. Treaties are called by several names: treaties, international agreements, protocols, covenants, conventions, exchanges of letters, exchanges of notes, etc.
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Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was the peace treaty which officially ended World War I between the Allies of World War I and the German Empire. After six months of negotiations, which took place at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, the treaty was signed as a follow-up to the armistice with Germany signed in November 1918 in the Compigne Forest .
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Trebuchet
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A trebuchet , also sometimes called a trebucket is a medieval siege engine, a weapon employed either to batter masonry or to throw projectiles over walls.
The trebuchet is thought to have been invented in China between the 5th century BC and 3rd century BC.
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Tree
A tree is a large, Perennial plant, woody plant. Though there is no set definition regarding minimum size, the term generally applies to plants at least 6 m high at maturity and, more importantly, having secondary branches supported on a single main stem or trunk with clear apical dominance .
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Tree frog
Tree frogs are frogs of the Family Hylidae. There is large variation within the tree frogs. Many of the arboreal frogs are green in colour, whereas the terrestrial and aquatic species are duller. They mostly feed on insects, however some of the larger species can feed on small vertebrates.
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Tree heath
The Tree Heath is a shrub or small evergreen tree with a height of 1-4 m. The numerous small flowers are white. The Tree Heath prefers acid soil. It is found mostly in the Macchia, dry evergreen shrublands, all around the Mediterranean area, west to Portugal and the Canary Islands, and with disjunct areas in Africa including the Ethiopian Highlands, the mountains of Ruwenzori and the Cameroon mountains.
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Tree house
A tree house is a small house that is built among the branches around, or next to the Trunk of one or more mature trees, and is some distance off the ground.
In some parts of the tropics, ordinary houses for living are built in trees or elevated on stilts to the same level as the trees, to keep the living quarters above hazards at ground level.
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Tree of heaven
Ailanthus altissima is a member of the quassia family, Simaroubaceae, native to northeast and central China.
It is a deciduous tree, which grows rapidly and can reach up to 25 m tall, rarely 35 m, with a trunk up to 1 m diameter, rarely 1.5 m diameter. The common name is a direct translation of the Indonesian name ailanto for a closely related species in the same genus.
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Tree onion
Tree onions, also commonly called top onions or Egyptian onions, are a strong-growing onion with a bunch of bulblets where a normal onion would have flowers. In some varieties these bulblets will sprout and grow while still on the original stalk, which may bend down under the weight of the new growth, giving rise to the name, walking onion.
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Tree Sparrow
The Tree Sparrow, Passer montanus, is spread over most of Europe and Siberia, and allied forms occur in other parts of Asia. It has been introduced to Australia. In the United States, Germany immigrants introduced it to the area around St. Louis, Missouri in the 1870s.
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Tree squirrel
Although the term tree squirrel can refer to any arboreal member of the family Sciuridae, it is generally in reference to the common and widely distributed members of the genus Sciurus. This genus contains most of the common, bushy-tailed squirrels in North America, Europe, Temperate zone Asia, and South America.
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Tree stump
After a tree has been cut and felled, the stump or tree stump is usually a small remaining portion of the trunk with the roots still in the ground. Tree stumps can be very difficult to remove from the ground. They can be dug out or they can be removed using a stump grinder.
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Tree Swallow
The Tree Swallow, Tachycineta bicolor, is a bird migration passerine bird that breeds in North America and winters in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe.
This swallow averages 13.5 cm (5 inches) long and weighs about 20g.
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Treehopper
Treehoppers and thorn bugs are members of the Membracidae family, a group of insects related to the cicadas and the leafhoppers. There are about 3000 species of treehoppers, divided over 600 genera. They are found on all continents, although there are only three species in Europe.
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Trefoil
Architecture
Trefoil is a term in Gothic architecture architecture given to the ornamental foliation or cusping introduced in the heads of window-lights, tracery, panellings, etc., in which the center takes the form of a three-lobed leaf . One of the earliest examples is in the plate tracery at Winchester Cathedral .
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Trematoda
The Trematoda is a class within the phylum Platyhelminthes, which contains two groups of parasitic worms.
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Tremolite
Tremolite is a member of the amphibole group of silicate minerals with composition: Ca2Mg5Si8O22(OH)2. Tremolite forms by metamorphism of sediments rich in dolomite and quartz. Tremolite forms a series with actinolite and ferro-actinolite.
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Tremolo
Tremolo is a musical term with several meanings:
* A regular and repetitive variation in amplitude for the duration of a single note. This is the most common meaning, but is often considered a misnomer.
* A regular and rapid repetition of a single note, which is scored as a single note, and particularly used on plectrum instruments such as the balalaika and the mandolin family.
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Tremulous
Tremulous is a Freeware, Open-source software game built upon the code base that blends a team-based First-person shooter with elements of a Real-time strategy. Gameplay is similar to the Quake II mod Gloom, or the Half-Life mod Natural Selection.
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Trench coat
A trench coat or trenchcoat is a clothing worn made of heavy-duty cotton, leather, drill or poplin, with a removable insulated lining.
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Trench knife
Trench knives are either purpose-made weapons, or are made from cut-down bayonets or swords, and intended for close-quarter fighting, the design originating in the trench warfare of the World War II. They were particularly useful for trench raiding operations, along with other mêle weapons.
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Trench warfare
Trench warfare is a form of war in which both opposing armies have static lines of fortifications dug into the ground, facing each other. Trench warfare arose when there was a revolution in firepower without similar advances in mobility and communications. Periods of trench warfare occurred during the American Civil War and the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, and reached peak brutality and bloodshed on the Western Front in the World War I.
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Trento
Trento, in English sometimes called Trent, Italian language Trento , German language Trient , Latin Tridentum, is an Italy city located in the Adige river valley in the Trentino-South Tyrol region. It is the capital of the region and of the autonomous province of Trento.
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Trephine
A trephine is a surgical instrument. It has a cylindrical blade and is used for harvesting of bone plugs, cutting holes in bones or for cutting out a round piece of the cornea for eye surgery. A bone marrow trephine shows the pattern of the marrow as it lies in the bone, undisturbed.
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Trespass
Trespass (Fr. trespas, a crime, properly a stepping across, from Lat. trans, across, and passus, step, cf. "transgression," from transgredi, to step across) is a legal concept, which refers to intrusion into another person's property. Most commonly people think of trespass to land, which can be either a crime or a tort depending on the jurisdiction.
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Trestle
A trestle is a bridge that consists of a number of short spans, supported by splayed vertical elements and is usually for railroad use. Timber trestles were extensively used in the nineteenth century in mountainous areas and to traverse floodplains adjacent to rivers as approaches to bridge.
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Trews
Trews are men's clothing for the legs and lower abdomen, a traditional form of Scotland Scottish apparel. Trews could be trimmed with leather, probably buckskin, especially on the inner leg to prevent wear from riding on horseback.
Trews may be origin of the word trousers.
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Triad
Triad or is a collective term that describes many branches of an underground society and organizations based in Hong Kong and also operating in Macau, Taiwan, mainland China, and countries with significant Chinese populations such as Malaysia, Singapore and also Chinatowns in Europe, North America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
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Triage
Triage is a system used by medical or emergency service personnel to rationing limited medical resources when the number of injured needing care exceeds the resources available to perform care so as to treat the greatest number of patients possible.
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Triamcinolone
Triamcinolone is a chemical synthesis corticosteroid given orally, by Injection, inhalation, or as a topical cream. An injection is used in many situations where a lasting corticosteroid effect is required. This includes replacement therapy in people whose adrenal glands are not producing enough natural steroids and decreasing inflammation in certain disease states.
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Triangle
A triangle is one of the basic shapes of geometry: a polygon with three vertex and three sides which are Distance geometry#straight line segments.
Any three non-collinear points determine a triangle and a unique plane, i.e. two dimensional Cartesian space in Euclidean geometry .
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Triangulation
In trigonometry and elementary geometry, triangulation is the process of finding coordinates and distance to a point by calculating the length of one side of a triangle, given measurements of angles and sides of the triangle formed by that point and two other known reference points, using the law of sines.
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Triatoma
Triatoma is a genus of the subfamily Triatominae. The members of Triatoma are blood-sucking hemiptera that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease.
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Triazine
A triazine is one of three organic chemicals, isomeric with each other, whose empirical formula is 333.
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Triazolam
Triazolam is a drug which is a benzodiazepine derivative. It possesses pharmacological properties similar to other benzodiazepines, but it is generally only used as a sedative.
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Tribadism
Tribadism or tribbing is female-to-female genital sex. Two women rub their vulvae together to stimulate each other's clitoris to orgasm.
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