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- Ta
- Tantalum is a shiny, silvery coloured metal which is heavy, dense, malleable and ductile when pure. It is found in small quantities in minerals
- Table Saw
- A rotating disc, driven by an electric motor, with teeth around the circumference.
- Tablespoon
- A convenient unit of capacity.
- Tachometer
- An instrument that measures the rate at which a shaft is turning.
- Tachyon
- A tachyon is a theoretical particle that always travels faster than light.
- Tack Hammer
- A special hammer with a magnetic head for inserting small nails or tacks.
- Tack Weld
- A weld made to hold parts in proper alignment until the final welds are made.
- TAEE
- Abbreviation of Tertiary Amyl Ethyl Ether.
- Tailings Dam
- A dam, usually made of earth and rock, used to contain mining waste.
- TAME
- Abbreviation of Tertiary Amyl Methyl Ether.
- Tan
- Trigonometric function.
- Tandem Mill
- Arrangement of rolling mills, in direct line, allowing the metal to pass from one set of rolls to the next for the reduction of steel.
- Tang
- The flat on the shank of a cutting tool, such as a drill, reamer or end mill, that fits a slot in -the spindle of a machine to keep the tool from slipping.
- Tangent
- Trigonometric function.
- Tangent Modulus of Elasticity
- The instantaneous rate of change of stress as a function of strain.
- Tangential
- Having the characteristics of a tangent - a straight line touching a circle at one point and forming a right angle with the radius connecting this point with the center of the circle.
- Tangential Mode
- A room mode produced by reflections off four of the six surfaces of the room.
- Tank Circuit
- A tuned circuit used to temporarily store energy.
- Tantalum
- A shiny, silvery coloured metal which is heavy, dense, malleable and ductile when pure. It is found in small quantities in minerals.
- Tap Density
- The apparent powder density obtained under stated conditions of tapping.
- Tap Wrench
- A bar with a hole and clamping device or T-bar design to hold a tap used to make internal threads.
- Tape
- A strip of long, thin, narrow material that may be rolled up.
- Taper Charge
- A charge regime delivering moderately high rate charging current when the battery is at a low state of charge and tapering the charging current to lower rates as the battery is charged.
- Taper Charging
- A charging regime delivering moderately high rate of current when the battery is at a low state of charge and tapering the charging current to lower rates as the battery is charged.
- Taper Roller Bearing
- A bearing composing of a cone of rollers and a matching cup for the rollers to sit within.
- Tapped Resistor
- A wire-wound, fixed resistor having one or more additional terminals along its
length, generally for voltage-divider applications.
- Tappet
- A tappet is an arm, collar or cam within a machine which imparts intermittent motion.
- Tar
- A mixture of hydrocarbon oils.
- Tardon
- A particle which has a positive real mass and travels at a speed less than c in all inertial frames.
- Target Population
- The entire group a researcher is interested in, the group about which the researcher wishes to draw conclusions.
- Target Resolution
- The ability of a radar to distinguish between two or more targets that are close
to each other
- Taste
- Four basic tastes are sour, sweet, salt and bitter.
- Tau
- A letter of the Greek alphabet.
- Tau
- The third flavor of charged lepton (in order of increasing mass), with electric
charge -1.
- Tautology
- A sentence that is true because of its logical structure.
- Tautomer
- A structure formed by facile motion of a hydrogen from one site to another within the same molecule.