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Places
- ThailandThailandThailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
, ISO 3166-1 country code- .th.th.th is the Internet country code top-level domain for Thailand. It is administered by T.H.NIC Co., Ltd. , formerly known as Thai Network Information Center Foundation....
, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Thailand
- .th
- ThuringiaThuringiaThe Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....
, a state (Land) of Germany - Territory of HawaiiTerritory of HawaiiThe Territory of Hawaii or Hawaii Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 7, 1898, until August 21, 1959, when its territory, with the exception of Johnston Atoll, was admitted to the Union as the fiftieth U.S. state, the State of Hawaii.The U.S...
, a term referring to Hawaii prior to statehood
People
- Tony HawkTony HawkAnthony Frank "Tony" Hawk , nicknamed "The Birdman" is an American retired professional skateboarder and actor. Hawk gained significant fame for completing the first 900 as well as his licensed video game titles distributed by Activision...
(born 1968), an American skateboarder - Tommy HilfigerTommy HilfigerThomas Jacob "Tommy" Hilfiger is an American fashion designer and founder of the premium lifestyle brand Tommy Hilfiger.-Early life:...
(born 1951), an American fashion designer - Terry HoageTerry HoageTerrell Lee "Terry" Hoage is a former football defensive back for the University of Georgia from 1980 – 1983 and several National Football League teams. He was a two time consensus All-American and graduated from Georgia in 1985 with a B.S. in Genetics with a 3.85 GPA...
(born 1962), a former American football defensive back - Triple HTriple HPaul Michael Levesque is an American professional wrestler, professional wrestling authority figure, WWE Executive Vice President of Talent and actor, better known by his ring name Triple H, an abbreviation of the ring name, Hunter Hearst Helmsley...
(born 1969), a professional wrestler
In entertainment
- The HauntedThe HauntedThe Haunted is a Swedish metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 1996.The original members were Anders & Jonas Björler, Peter Dolving, Adrian Erlandsson and Patrik Jensen...
, a Swedish heavy metal band - The Haunted (Canadian band)The Haunted (Canadian band)The Haunted were a garage rock band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The band was formed by Jurgen Peter in 1965, and went on to release several records before finally disbanding in 1971...
, a Canadian garage rock band - Theater HopperTheater HopperTheater Hopper is a webcomic based on a movie fan , his wife , and their friends. It debuted August 5, 2002 and is written and drawn by Tom Brazelton. In 2003, Theater Hopper became a member of the Dayfree Press Webcomics Network, but in 2005, moved to the Boxcar Comics collective...
, a semi-autobiographical webcomic - To Heart, a Japanese adult visual novel
- Tokio HotelTokio HotelTokio Hotel is a pop rock band from Germany, founded in 2001 by singer Bill Kaulitz, guitarist Tom Kaulitz, drummer Gustav Schäfer and bassist Georg Listing...
, a German pop rock band - Twilight HeroesTwilight HeroesTwilight Heroes is a browser-based, multiplayer role playing game designed and operated by Quirkz Media and released in October 2007. Players take on the role of superheroes as they fight monsters and villains in turn-based combat, collect items and chips , and complete quests...
, a browser-based multiplayer role playing game
In language
- EthEthEth is a letter used in Old English, Icelandic, Faroese , and Elfdalian. It was also used in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, but was subsequently replaced with dh and later d. The capital eth resembles a D with a line through the vertical stroke...
(ð), a letter used in Old English, Icelandic, Faroese and Elfdalian - Th (digraph)Th (digraph)Th is a digraph in the Roman alphabet. It is the most common digraph in order of frequency in the English language.-Cluster /t.h/:The most literal use of ⟨th⟩ is to represent a consonant cluster of /t/ and /h/ as in English knighthood...
, a digraph in the Roman alphabet- Pronunciation of English thPronunciation of English thIn English, the digraph ⟨th⟩ represents in most cases one of two different phonemes: the voiced dental fricative and the voiceless dental fricative...
aspects of this digraph in English - Voiced dental fricativeVoiced dental fricativeThe voiced dental non-sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound, eth, is . The symbol was taken from the Old English letter eth, which could stand for either a voiced or unvoiced...
/ð/, a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages - Voiceless dental fricativeVoiceless dental fricativeThe voiceless dental non-sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. It is familiar to English speakers as the 'th' in thing. Though rather rare as a phoneme in the world's inventory of languages, it is encountered in some of the most widespread and influential...
/θ/, a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages
- Pronunciation of English th
- Thai languageThai languageThai , also known as Central Thai and Siamese, is the national and official language of Thailand and the native language of the Thai people, Thailand's dominant ethnic group. Thai is a member of the Tai group of the Tai–Kadai language family. Historical linguists have been unable to definitively...
(ISO 639 code), the national and official language of Thailand - Thorn (letter)Thorn (letter)Thorn or þorn , is a letter in the Old English, Old Norse, and Icelandic alphabets, as well as some dialects of Middle English. It was also used in medieval Scandinavia, but was later replaced with the digraph th. The letter originated from the rune in the Elder Fuþark, called thorn in the...
(þ), a letter in the Old English, Old Norse, and Icelandic alphabets, as well as some dialects of Middle English - -th, an ordinal number suffix in English
In science and technology
- ThoriumThoriumThorium is a natural radioactive chemical element with the symbol Th and atomic number 90. It was discovered in 1828 and named after Thor, the Norse god of thunder....
(chemical symbol Th), a chemical element - a HTML element used to indicate a header cell of table
- Tyrosine hydroxylaseTyrosine hydroxylaseTyrosine hydroxylase or tyrosine 3-monooxygenase is the enzyme responsible for catalyzing the conversion of the amino acid L-tyrosine to dihydroxyphenylalanine . It does so using tetrahydrobiopterin as a coenzyme. DOPA is a precursor for dopamine, which, in turn, is a precursor for norepinephrine ...
, the rate-limiting enzyme in the conversion of tyrosine to catecholamines - Thyroid hormoneThyroid hormoneThe thyroid hormones, thyroxine and triiodothyronine , are tyrosine-based hormones produced by the thyroid gland primarily responsible for regulation of metabolism. An important component in the synthesis of thyroid hormones is iodine. The major form of thyroid hormone in the blood is thyroxine ,...
, a hormone - Thoracic vertebraeThoracic vertebraeIn human anatomy, twelve thoracic vertebrae compose the middle segment of the vertebral column, between the cervical vertebrae and the lumbar vertebrae. They are intermediate in size between those of the cervical and lumbar regions; they increase in size as one proceeds down the spine, the upper...
, the middle segment of the vertebral column - T helper cellT helper cellT helper cells are a sub-group of lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell, that play an important role in the immune system, particularly in the adaptive immune system. These cells have no cytotoxic or phagocytic activity; they cannot kill infected host cells or pathogens. Rather, they help other...
, a type of cell that directs the activities of other types to cells in the immune system - The hold time (th) of a flip flop in electronics
- Total Hardness, a parameter of water quality
Units of measurement
- Thomson (unit)Thomson (unit)The thomson is a unit that has appeared infrequently in scientific literature relating to the field of mass spectrometry as a unit of mass-to-charge ratio. The unit was proposed by Cooks and Rockwood naming it in honour of J. J...
, a unit for measuring a mass-to-charge ratio used in mass spectrometry - Thou (length), a unit of length also known as mil
- ThermThermThe therm is a non-SI unit of heat energy equal to 100,000 British thermal units . It is approximately the energy equivalent of burning 100 cubic feet of natural gas....
, a measurement of heat energy
Other uses
- ThursdayThursdayThursday is the fourth day of the week according to the ISO 8601 international standard adopted in most western countries. In countries that use the Sunday-first convention and in the Judeo-Christian calendar it is the fifth day of the week. It falls between Wednesday and Friday...
, a day of the week - Technische HochschuleTechnische HochschuleTechnische Hochschule is what an Institute of Technology used to be called in German-speaking countries, as well as in the Netherlands, before most of them changed their name to Technische Universität or Technische Universiteit in the 1970s and in the...
, a Technical University in German-speaking countries - Trunk highway, a major road recommended for freight traffic
- Thai Airways Company former IATA airline designator
- Transmile Air ServicesTransmile Air ServicesTransmile Air Services is a cargo airline based in Malaysia. It is an express freight and freighter charter company. The airline was established in November 1993. It has courier transportation services between Peninsular Malaysia and East Malaysia and services international companies such as DHL...
(IATA airline designator), a cargo airline based in Malaysia - Tabung HajiTabung HajiTabung Haji or Lembaga Tabung Haji is the Malaysian hajj pilgrims fund board. It was formerly known as Lembaga Urusan dan Tabung Haji . The main headquarters is located at Jalan Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur. Tabung Haji facilitates savings for the pilgrimage to Makkah through investment in...
, a Malaysian hajj pilgrims fund board - Telegraph HeraldTelegraph HeraldThe Telegraph Herald, locally referred to as the TH, is a daily newspaper published in Dubuque, Iowa for the population of Dubuque and surrounding areas in Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin...
, a newspaper in Dubuque Iowa nicknamed "The TH"