Tie rod A tie rod is a slender structural rod used as a tie and capable of carrying tension loads only. Since the ratio of its length to the radius of gyration of its cross section is usually very large, it would buckle under the action of physical compression force s.
	Tie-dye Tie-dye is typically brightly colored, patterned clothing or fabric which is made from ordinary cellulose-based cloth through a process known as tie-dyeing. During tie-dyeing, a chemical reaction takes place which permanently bonds the colorful dye to the fabric, making tie-dye safe to wash amongst other, non-tie-dyed clothes once the excess dye has been removed.
	Tierra del Fuego Tierra del Fuego , an archipelago, 28,476 sq mi , separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan at the southernmost tip of South America.
	Tiger Tigers are mammals of the Felidae family and one of four "big cats" in the Panthera genus. They are superpredators and the largest and most powerful of the living cats. The Royal Bengal Tiger is the most common subspecies of tiger, constituting approximately 80% of the entire tiger population, and is found in the Indian subcontinent.
	Tiger beetle The tiger beetles are a large group of beetles known for their predatory habits. Taxonomically, the beetles are classed as either the family Cicindelidae or as the subfamily Cicindelinae of the Carabidae. There are about 2,100 species known. Tiger beetles often have large bulging eyes, long, slender legs and large curved mandibles.
	Tiger Salamander The Tiger Salamander is a species of Mole salamander. The proper common name is the Eastern Tiger Salamander, as to differentiate from other closely related species. Eastern tiger salamanders are large, with a typical length of 6-8 inches. They can reach up to 13 inches in length, particularly neoteny individuals.
	Tiger shark The tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvier, one of the largest sharks, is the only member of the genus Galeocerdo. Mature sharks average 3.25 – 4.25 metre and weigh 325 – 425 kg. It is found in many of the tropical and temperate regions of the world's oceans, and is especially common around islands in the central Pacific.
	Tightrope walking Tightrope walking is a spectacle activity usually performed for the amusement of an audience. It involves a performer who walks along a thin wire or rope usually from a great height. It is also called funambulism. The "tightrope walker" may sometimes use a pole to aid in balancing while walking the rope.
	Tights Tights are a type of leg coverings fabric extending from the waist to feet. Athletic tights are considered unisex. In fashion they are today worn primarily by women and girls, as well as infants and toddlers of both sexes. In recent years they are also sometimes offered as men's fashion and tights might evolve into a unisex-garment.
	Tigon A Tigon is the hybrid of a male tiger and a lioness. The tigon is not as common as the converse hybrid, the liger, however in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, tigons were more common than ligers. Tigons can exhibit characteristics of both parents: they can have both spots from the mother and stripes from the father.
	Tigris The Tigris is the eastern member of the pair of great rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates, which flows from the mountains of Anatolia through Iraq .
	Tijuana Tijuana, is the largest city in the Mexico States of Mexico of Baja California and the seat of the municipality of Tijuana; the city's current mayor is Jorge Hank Rhon of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Hilly Tijuana is the westernmost city in Latin America as well as one of the northernmost cities.
	Tilapia Tilapia is the Common name#Biological common names used for a variety of cichlid fishes of the genus Oreochromis, Sarotherodon, and Tilapia. Tilapias inhabit a variety of freshwater and, less commonly, brackish water habitats from shallow streams and ponds through to rivers, lakes, and estuaries.
	Tilde The tilde is a grapheme with several uses. The name of the character comes from Spanish language, from the Latin titulus meaning a title or superscription, and is pronounced , in English, or , in Spanish. It was originally written over a letter as a mark of abbreviation, but has since acquired a number of other uses as a diacritic mark or a character in its own right.
	Tile A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, Rock, porcelain, metal or even glass. Tiles are generally used for covering roofs, floors, and walls, or other objects such as tabletops. Another category are the ceiling tiles, made from lightweight materials such as perlite and mineral wool.
	Tiled Tiled is a general purpose tile map editor. It has a very simple and easy to use interface, and is capable of outputting tile maps in a variety of formats, such as its own XML-based format, TMX, which can utilize gzip compression, or a Mappy Map Editor compatible format. It is being developed in Java, so that it is immediately usable via the web, or to be downloaded on any Java capable platform.
	Tilefish Tilefishes, also known as blanquillo, are mostly small perciform marine fish comprising the family Malacanthidae. Commercial fishery exist for the largest species, making them important food fish, although the American Food and Drug Administration warns pregnant women against eating them.
	Tilia Tilia is a genus of about 30 species of trees, native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere, in Asia, Europe and eastern North America; it is absent from western North America. Under the Cronquist classification system, this genus was placed in the family Tiliaceae, but genetic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has resulted in the incorporation of this family into the Malvaceae.
	Tilia americana Tilia americana is a medium-sized to large deciduous tree in the genus Tilia, native to Eastern United States North America. It occurs from southeast Manitoba east to New Brunswick, southwest to northeast Texas, and southeast to South Carolina.
	Tilia cordata Tilia cordata, the Small-leaved Lime or Small-leaved Linden is a tree native to much of Europe, including southern Britain north to about Durham. It grows to 20-35 m tall, with a trunk up to 1-1.5 m diameter. The leaf are rounded to triangular-ovate, 4-8 cm long and broad, mostly hairless except for small tufts of brown hair in the leaf vein axils.
	Till Till is an unsorted glacier sediment. Glacial drift is a general term for the coarsely graded and extremely heterogeneous sediments of glacial origin. Glacial till is that part of glacial drift which was deposited directly by the glacier. It may vary from clays to mixtures of clay, sand, gravel and boulders.
	Tillandsia The plant genus Tillandsia, a member of the Bromeliad family, is found in the deserts, forests and mountains of Central America and South America, and Mexico and the southern United States in North America. The thinner leafed varieties grow in rainy areas and the thick leafed varieties in areas more subject to drought.
	Timber Timber is a term used to describe wood, either standing or that has been processed for use—from the time trees are felled, to its end product as a material suitable for industrial use—as structural material for construction or wood pulp for paper production. In the United Kingdom and Australia, "timber" is a term also used for sawn wood products , whereas generally in the United States and Canada, the product of timber cut into boards is referred to as lumber.
	Timber hitch The timber hitch is a knot used to attach a single length of rope to a piece of wood. This knot is easily undone after use. To make the knot, pass the rope completely around the wood. Pass the running end around the standing part,then through the loop that you have just formed. Make three turns around the loop then pull on the standing part to tighten.
	Timbuktu Timbuktu, Timbuctu or Timbuctoo is a city populated by the Songhay, Tuareg, Fula people, and Moors people in the West African country of Mali. It is often said to lie on the River Niger, but is actually 15 km north of the river. Its geographical setting made it a natural meeting point for nearby African populations and nomadic Berber and Arab peoples from the north.
	Time Two distinct views exist on the meaning of time. One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence. This is the realist view, to which Isaac Newton subscribed, in which time itself is something that can be measured.
	Time bomb A time bomb is usually an improvised explosive device comprised of a power source, often a battery, detonator, explosive charge, and timer, which substitutes for a fuse or trigger. Depending upon the design, the bomb can be set to detonate any time between a few minutes and several days after it has been secreted within the target area; also, a fake fuse, which serves no actual purpose in the bomb, can be implanted as a failsafe in case of discovery; the discoverer, thinking that the b
	Time Bomb Time Bomb is Buckcherry's second album. It was produced by and released on March 27,2001 by Dreamworks Records.
	Time clock A time clock is a mechanical timepiece that was used to assist in tracking the hours an employee of a company worked. This was accomplished by inserting a heavy paper card, called a time card, into a slot on the time clock. When the time card hit a contact at the rear of the slot, the machine would print day and time information on the card.
	Time Machines Time Machines is Coil's landmark drone music album, released under the alias Time Machines. It consists of 4 tracks which are composed of a single pitch, called a drone. Each tone represents a certain hallucinogenic drug chemical. It is similar to Brian Eno's early ambient music albums, but more functional in that, instead of creating an atmosphere of calm, it facilitates time travel, according to band founder John Balance.
	Time Out Time Out is a publishing company based in London, England. The company's most well known product is the Time Out weekly listings magazine. The original magazine, with listings for London, was published in 1968 by Tony Elliott. He remains the owner of the group. The Time Out Group Limited has expanded over the past 35 years to publish listings guides for other cities, travel guides, guides to specific aspects of cities and have established a similar presence online.
	Time out of Mind Time out of Mind is rock legend Bob Dylan's twenty-ninth studio album, released in 1997 by Columbia Records. It was immediately hailed as a comeback, following two decades of lukewarm critical reception and sales for the iconic singer-songwriter. The album was produced by Daniel Lanois, who first worked with Dylan on his Oh Mercy LP in 1989.
	Time signal A time signal is a visible, audible, mechanical, or electronic signal used as a reference to determine the time of day.
	Time signature The time signature is a notational device used in Western culture musical notation to specify how many beat s are in each bar and what note value constitutes one beat. Time signatures indicate meter, but do not necessarily determine it. Most time signatures comprise two numbers, one above the other.
	Time zone A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. Most adjacent time zones are exactly one hour apart, and by convention compute their local time as an offset from Greenwich Mean Time . Standard time zones can be defined by geometrically subdividing the Earth's spheroid into 24 lunes , bordered by meridians each 15 of longitude apart.
	TIMED The TIMED mission is a two year project to study the Dynamics of the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere portion of the Earth's atmosphere. The mission was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on December 7, 2001 aboard a Delta II rocket launch vehicle.
	Timer A timer is a specialized type of clock. A timer can be used to control the sequence of an event or process. Timers can be machine, electromechanical, digital, or even software, since most computers have clocks.
	Times Square For other uses, see Times Square . Like Red Square in Moscow, Trafalgar Square in London, or Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Times Square is an open space where pedestrians can congregate. It was named after the one-time headquarters of The New York Times, and is located in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, United States of America, along Broadway and Seventh Avenue , from 42nd Street to 47th Street s.
	Timeserver A timeserver is a computer networking device that reads the actual time from a reference clock and distributes this information to its clients using a computer network. The most important and widely-used protocol for distributing and synchronising time is the Network Time Protocol, though other less-popular or outdated time protocols continue in use.
	Timetable A timetable is an organized list or schedule, usually set out in tabular form, providing information about a series of arranged events: in particular, the time at which it is planned these events will take place. This could be Rota
	Timgad Timgad|Jupiter]] and is approximately the same dimensions as the Pantheon, Rome in Rome. Nearby the capitol is a square church with a circular apse dating from the 7th Century AD. Southeast of the city is a large Byzantine Empire citadel built in the later days of the city.
	Timimoun Timimoun is a town and an oasis at the same time, located in Gourara region in Algeria. The town of Timimoun, founded above the same name oasis, is known for the red ochre color of its buildings. Timimoun, is located at the edge of the plate of Tadmaït, above the Sebkhra.
	Timor Timor is an island at the south end of the Malay Archipelago, divided between the independent state of East Timor, and West Timor, part of the Indonesia province of East Nusa Tenggara with the surface of 11,883 square mile . The name is a variant of timur, Malay language for "east"; it is so called because it is at the east end of a chain of islands.
	Timor Sea The Timor Sea is an arm of the Indian Ocean situated between the island of Timor, now split between the states of Indonesia and East Timor, and the Northern Territory of Australia. The waters to the east are known as the Arafura Sea, technically an arm of the Pacific Ocean.
	Timothy Leary Timothy Francis Leary, Doctor of Philosophy was an United States of America writer, psychologist, computer software designer, and advocate of psychedelic drug research and use. As a 1960s counterculture icon, he is most famous as a proponent of the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD.
	Timpani Timpani are musical instruments in the percussion instrument family. A type of drum, they consist of a skin called a drumhead stretched over a large bowl commonly made of copper. They are played by striking the head with a special drum stick called a timpani stick or timpani mallet.
	Timur Timur bin Taraghay Barlas was a 14th century warlord of Turco-Mongol descent, conqueror of much of Western and central Asia, and founder of the Timurid Empire in Central Asia and of the Timurid dynasty, which survived in some form until 1857. He is also known as Timur-e Lang which translates to Timur the Lame, as he was lame after sustaining an injury to the leg as a child.
	Tin Tin is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Sn and atomic number 50. This silvery, malleable poor metal that is not easily oxidation in air and resists corrosion, is found in many alloys and is used to coat other metals to prevent corrosion.
	Tin can A tin can, also called a tin or a can, is an air-tight container for the distribution or storage of goods, composed of thin metal, and requiring cutting or tearing of the metal as the means of opening. Cans hold diverse contents, but the overwhelming proportion food preservation by canning.
	Tinamou The tinamous are one of the most ancient groups of bird, members of a South American bird family of about 47 species in 9 genera. Although they look similar to other ground-dwelling birds like quail and grouse, they have no close relatives and are classified as a single family Tinamidae within their own order, the Tinamiformes.
	Tine test The Tine test is a multiple puncture tuberculin skin test used to aid in the medical diagnosis of tuberculosis. This test uses a small "button" that has four to six short needles coated with TB antigens. The tines are pressed into the skin, forcing the antigens into skin. The test is read by measuring the size of the largest papule.
	Tineidae Tineidae is a family of moths in the order Lepidoptera. The family contains approximately 3000 species. Most of the tineid moths are small or medium-sized, with wings held roofwise over the body at rest. Tineids are unusual among Lepidoptera as the larvae of only a very small number of species feed on living plants, the majority feeding on fungi, lichens and detritus.
	Tingle is a fictional video game character created by Nintendo in The Legend of Zelda series of Computer and video games. Since his debut in ', he has been a recurring character in the Legend of Zelda series. While Tingle holds some popularity in Japan, the reception from Western audiences has been somewhat poor.
	Tinkerer The Tinkerer is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe with an almost superhuman gift of genius in engineering, able to invent sophisticated gadgets from nothing more than spare parts left over from ordinary household appliances. He is the third biggest weapon provider of the gangland.
	Tint * In color theory#Tints and Shades, the colour wheel is based on "pure" colours; lighter versions produced by adding white or more light are called tints. These are known as "pale" or "light" colours, as "pastel" colours or as "tans". * In colour television, a tint control is an adjustment allowing image hue to be corrected.
	Tintoretto Tintoretto was one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso, and his dramatic use of perspectival space and special lighting effects make him a precursor of baroque art.
	Tip A tip is an amount of payment to certain service sector workers which is in addition to the advertised bill or fee. These payments and their size are a matter of social convention. There are no universal rules or obligations concerning whether to tip, who to tip or how much. Tipping varies from culture to culture and by service industry.
	Tipi A tipi is a conical tent originally made of skins or birchbark and popularised by the American Indians in the United States of the Great Plains. The dwelling was remarkably durable, and gave warmth and comfort to its inhabitants during harsh winters, was dry during heavy rains, and cool during the heat of summers.
	Tippet A Tippet is a stole or scarf-like narrow piece of clothing, worn around the arms and above the elbow. They evolved in the fourteenth century from long sleeves and typically had one end hanging down to the knees. Nowadays, a tippet is often any scarf-like wrap, usually made of fur.
	Tippler A tippler is a breed of domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions. Flying results of up to 22 hours have been reported which makes it the most outstanding endurance-flying breed in recorded existence.
	Tiramisu Tiramisu is an Italy dessert typically made from Lady Finger s, espresso coffee, mascarpone cheese, Egg s, cream , sugar, marsala wine, cocoa and rum. The name tiramis means "pick-me-up", referring to the two caffeine-containing ingredients, espresso and cocoa.
	Tirana Tirana is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Albania. It was founded in 1614 by Sulejman Pasha, and became Albania's capital city in 1920. Tirana is located at in the eponymous Tiran District and Tiran County. Its average altitude is 90 metres above sea level.
	Tire A tire or tyre is a device covering the circumference of a wheel. It is an essential part of most ground vehicles and is used to dampen the oscillations caused by irregularities in the road surface, to protect the wheel from wear and tear as well as to provide a high-friction bond between the vehicle and the ground to improve acceleration and handling.Today most tires, especially those fitted to motor vehicles, are manufactured from synthetic rubber, but other materials such as steel may be used.
	Tisane A tisane, ptisan or herbal "tea" is any herbal infusion not made from the leaves of the tea bush . The English language word "tisane" originated from the Ancient_Greek word pt?s??? , a drink made from pearl barley. Tisanes can be made with fresh or dried flowers, leaves, seeds or roots, generally by pouring boiling water over the plant parts and letting them steep for a few minutes.
	Tissue plasminogen activator Tissue plasminogen activator is a secreted serine protease which converts the proenzyme plasminogen to plasmin, a fibrinolysis enzyme. Plasminogen is synthesized as a single chain which is cleaved by PLAT into the two chain disulfide linked plasmin. This enzyme plays a role in cell migration and tissue remodeling.
	Titan arum The titan arum has the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world. The largest single flower is borne by the Rafflesia arnoldii; the largest branched inflorescence in the plant kingdom is the Talipot palm . Due to its fragrance, which is reminiscent of the smell of a decomposition mammal, the titan arum is also known as the "Corpse flower" or "Corpse plant" .
	Titanium Titanium is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Ti and atomic number 22. It is a light, strong, lustrous, corrosion-resistant transition metal with a white-silvery-metallic colour. Titanium is used in strong light-weight alloys , and in powdered form to other materials, such as graphite composites.
	Titanium dioxide Titanium dioxide, also known as titanium(IV) oxide or titania, is the naturally occurring oxide of titanium, chemical formula Tioxygen2. When used as a pigment, it is called titanium white, Pigment White 6, or Colour Index International.
	Titi The titis, or titi monkeys, are the New World monkeys of the genus Callicebus. They are the only extant members of the Callicebinae subfamily, which also contains the extinct genera Xenothrix, Antillothrix, Paralouatta, Carlocebus, Homunculus, Lagonimico and possibly also Tremacebus.
	Titian Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio, better known as Titian, was the leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, in the Cadore territory, near Belluno, in Italy, and died in Venice. During his lifetime he was often called Da Cadore, taken from the place of his birth.