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engineering and computing:
- Thin Plated Copper cathodeCathodeA cathode is an electrode through which electric current flows out of a polarized electrical device. Mnemonic: CCD .Cathode polarity is not always negative...
- Tonnes per centimeter, used in maritime cargo plans and hydrostaticFluid staticsFluid statics is the science of fluids at rest, and is a sub-field within fluid mechanics. The term usually refers to the mathematical treatment of the subject. It embraces the study of the conditions under which fluids are at rest in stable equilibrium...
calculations, relates a vessel's displacement to its draft (also known as "tonnes per centimeter immersion") - Total Plant Cost in relation to electricity generationElectricity generationElectricity generation is the process of generating electric energy from other forms of energy.The fundamental principles of electricity generation were discovered during the 1820s and early 1830s by the British scientist Michael Faraday...
facilities - Transmission Power Control
- Transmit Power Control
- Trans Pacific Cable, see submarine communications cableSubmarine communications cableA submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean....
- Turbo Product Code, a popular Forward error correctionForward error correctionIn telecommunication, information theory, and coding theory, forward error correction or channel coding is a technique used for controlling errors in data transmission over unreliable or noisy communication channels....
(FEC) technique used in satellite communications - Two-phase commit protocolTwo-phase commit protocolIn transaction processing, databases, and computer networking, the two-phase commit protocol is a type of atomic commitment protocol . It is a distributed algorithm that coordinates all the processes that participate in a distributed atomic transaction on whether to commit or abort the transaction...
, a distributed algorithm to commit a transaction
science:
- Technical Program Chair/Committee, the group of experts that is responsible for accepting or rejecting contributions to an Academic conferenceAcademic conferenceAn academic conference or symposium is a conference for researchers to present and discuss their work. Together with academic or scientific journals, conferences provide an important channel for exchange of information between researchers.-Overview:Conferences are usually composed of various...
- Thresholds of Potential Concern (set of operational goals that define spatio temporal heterogeneity)
- Time projection chamberTime projection chamberIn physics, a time projection chamber is a particle detector invented by David R. Nygren, an American physicist, at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in the late 1970s...
, a type of particle detector - Twin prime conjecture
transportation:
- TPC, the ICAO code for the airline Air CalédonieAir CalédonieSociété Calédonienne de Transports Aériens, operating as Air Calédonie, is the domestic airline for New Caledonia, headquartered on the grounds of Magenta Airport in Nouméa. It operates scheduled passenger and cargo flights from Nouméa to 10 destinations in New Caledonia...
- Trieste - Poreč - Kanfanar narrow gauge railway 1902-1935, better known as ParenzanaParenzanaThe Parenzana or Porečanka is one of the nicknames of a defunct narrow gauge railway between Trieste and Poreč , in present day Italy, Slovenia and Croatia.- Name :When constructed, the railway's official...
sports:
- The Players ChampionshipThe Players ChampionshipThe Players Championship is an annual golf tournament on the PGA Tour.Originally known as the Tournament Players Championship, the inaugural event in 1974 was played at Atlanta Country Club in Marietta, Georgia before moving to the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas in 1975 and Inverrary...
, a golf tournament - Tournament Players ClubTournament Players ClubTournament Players Club is a chain of public and private golf courses operated by the PGA Tour. Most of the courses either are or have been hosts for PGA Tour events, with the remainder having frequently hosted events on the second-tier Nationwide Tour or the over-50s Champions Tour.The first...
, a chain of golf clubs - Two-point conversionTwo-point conversionIn American and Canadian football, a two-point conversion is a play a team attempts instead of kicking a one-point convert immediately after it scores a touchdown...
company names:
- The Pampered ChefThe Pampered ChefThe Pampered Chef, Ltd. a global company that offers a line of kitchen tools, food products, and cookbooks aimed for preparing food in the home with a worldwide direct sales force over 60,000 in addition to 750 corporate staff...
, Ltd. - The Phone CompanyThe Phone CompanyThe Phone Company is a volunteer network providing a free email-to-fax service.It is one of the few grandfathered users of the '.int' domain. It takes its name from the similarly named organisation in the film The President's Analyst....
, an email-to-fax service
organizations and centers:
- IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity CenterIBM Tivoli Storage Productivity CenterIBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center is a Storage Resource Management software offering that provides a centralized point of control for managing large scale, complex heterogeneous storage environments.- IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center :...
- Transaction Processing Performance CouncilTransaction Processing Performance CouncilTransaction Processing Performance Council is a non-profit organization founded in 1988 to define transaction processing and database benchmarks and to disseminate objective, verifiable TPC performance data to the industry...
, a non-profit IT organization - Tropical Prediction Center (National Hurricane CenterNational Hurricane CenterThe National Hurricane Center , located at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, is the division of the National Weather Service responsible for tracking and predicting weather systems within the tropics between the Prime Meridian and the 140th meridian west poleward to the 30th...
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arts and media:
- The People's CourtThe People's CourtThe People's Court is a US television court show in which small claims court cases are heard, though what is shown is actually a binding arbitration....
, a U.S. court show - Tokyo Police ClubTokyo Police ClubTokyo Police Club is an indie rock band from Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. It consists of vocalist and bassist David Monks , keyboardist Graham Wright, guitarist Josh Hook , and drummer Greg Alsop ....
, an indie band from Newmarket, Ontario - The Political CesspoolThe Political CesspoolThe Political Cesspool is a weekly talk radio show founded by James Edwards, and syndicated by Liberty News Radio Network and Accent Radio Network in the United States...
, a U.S.-based white nationalist talk radio show - The People's CubeThe People's CubeThe People's Cube is a U.S. based satirical conservative website that was launched April 1, 2005 as a sequel to Communists for Kerry.-Founder's biography:Oleg Atbashian:Before moving to the U.S...
, a satirical website