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- Te
- Tellerium is a rare, silvery-white, semi-metallic element which exhibits both metallic and non-metallic traits.
- Teak
- A strong and durable wood that doesn't shrink much and is comparatively easy to work.
- Tear Resistance
- The ability of a thin film, paper or textile to resist tearing.
- Teaspoon
- A convenient unit of capacity.
- tebibyte
- Equal to two to the power of forty bytes.
- Technetium
- A radioactive element not found in ores.
- Technical Atmosphere
- A metric unit of pressure equal to one kilogram of force per square centimetre.
- Technical Report
- A document that discusses the technical issues of a subject.
- Tectonic Earthquakes
- Earthquakes resulting from sudden release of energy stored by major deformation of the Earth.
- Tee Joint
- A joint between two members located approximately at right angles to each other in the form of a T.
- Teflon
- Tradename for Polytetrafluoroethylene.
- Telecentric Lens
- A multi-component system whose aperture stop is located at the front focus so that the chief rays are parallel to the optical axis in image space.
- Telecommunications
- The transmission, emission, or reception of signs, signals, writings, images, or sounds.
- Telemetry
- Communications between remote sources by wire, radio, or other means.
- Telescope
- Instrument used to focus electromagnetic radiation into an image.
- Telescoping Gauge
- A T-shaped gage used to measure the diameter or width of holes.
- Television
- Telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images and sound.
- Telford, Thomas
- Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and a noted road, bridge and canal builder.
- Tellane
- Old name for Hydrogen I Telluride.
- Tellurium
- A rare, silvery-white, semi-metallic element which exhibits both metallic and non-metallic traits.
- Telodynamic Transmission
- The system of transmitting power over long distances by means of pulleys and wire ropes.
- TEM
- An abbreviation of Transmission Electron Microscope.
- Temper
- Reheating hardened steel or hardened cast iron to some temperature below the eutectoid temperature for the purpose of decreasing the hardness and increasing the toughness.
- Temper Colours
- The colours which appear on the surface of steel heated at low temperature in an oxidizing atmosphere.
- Temperature
- A measure as to whether two bodies are hot or cold relative to one another.
- Temperature Coefficient
- The amount of change of a parameter per unit change in temperature.
- Temperature Control
- Temperature operated thermostatic device which automatically opens or closes a circuit.
- Temperature Humidity Index
- Actual temperature and humidity of air sample compared to air at standard conditions.
- Temperature Inversion
- The condition in which warm air is formed above a layer of cool air that is near the earth′s surface.
- Temperature Range
- The minimum to maximum temperature over which a piece of equipment will operate.
- Temperature Resolution
- The minimum change in temperature that can be detected.
- Tempering
- Reheating a quench-hardened or normalized ferrous alloy to a temperature below the transformation range and then cooling at any rate desired.
- Template
- A pattern to guide the marking or cutting of a shape.
- Tempo
- The speed of occurrence of the beats for a given metric structure.
- Temporal
- An adjective meaning "pertaining to time"
- Temporary Threshold Shift
- A temporary impairment of hearing acuity as indicated by a change in the threshold of audibility.
- Temporary Water Hardness
- The component of total water hardness that can be removed by boiling the water.
- Tenacity
- The tensile stress expressed as force per unit linear density of an unstrained specimen.
- Tenon
- A projection made by cutting away the wood around it to insert into a mortise to make a joint.
- Tenon Saw
- Fine-toothed hand saw used to cut tenons and other wood joints accurately.
- Tensegrity
- An array of tension cables and compression rods that supports a structure that were invented by Buckminster Fuller student Kenneth Snellson.
- Tensile Fracture
- A fracture caused by tensional stress.
- Tensile Strength
- The ultimate strength of a material prior to fracture when subjected to an increasing tension load.
- Tensile Stress
- Stress acting on the cross-sectional area of a body normal to the tension force acting on the body.
- Tension
- A stretching force that pulls on a material.
- Tension Ring
- A support ring that resists the outward force pushing against the lower sides of a dome.
- Tension Set
- Extent to which vulcanized rubber is permanently deformed after being stretched a specified amount for a short time.
- Tension Shackle
- A link attached to the rear eye of a leaf spring and to the frame of the vehicle.
- Tephra
- Materials of all types and sizes that are erupted from a crater or volcanic vent and deposited from the air.
- tera
- Prefix representing a multiplication of 1012
- Tera Electron Volt
- One trillion electron Volts.
- Terahertz
- One trillion cycles per second, 1012 Hz.
- Teratogen
- A substance that can cause deformities in embryos. Dioxin is a teratogen.
- Terbium
- Used in the semiconductor industry as a dopant.
- Terminal
- A point at which electrical connections can easily be made or broken.
- Terminal Board
- An insulating base or slab equipped with terminals for connecting wiring.
- Terminal Diagram
- A diagram of a switch, relay, terminal board, or other component showing the connections to the equipment.
- Terminal Lug
- A device attached to a conductor to permit connection to a terminal.
- Terminal Reaction
- A reaction that ends a cycle or chain of other chemical reactions.
- Terminal Side
- The side that the measurement of an angle ends at.
- Terminal Speed
- The speed obtained in free fall when the upward force of air resistance is equal to the downward force of gravity.
- Termination Shock
- Particles from the Sun begin to slow and clash with matter from the sparse gas found between the stars.
- Terminator
- A device that provides electrical resistance at the end of a transmission line.
- Terpolymer
- A copolymer composed of three different types of monomers.
- Terrestrial Planet
- One of four rocky planets found within the inner solar system.
- Tertiary
- The geological period from 65 million to 1.64 million years ago.
- Tertiary Amyl Ethyl Ether
- An ether based on reactive C5 olefins and ethanol.
- Tertiary Amyl Methyl Ether
- An ether based on reactive C5 olefins and methanol.
- Tertiary Logic
- An experimental technology in which logic gates are based on three distinct voltage levels.
- Tesla
- The SI unit of magnetic flux density and equal to 1 weber per square metre.
- Tesla Antenna
- A form of wireless antenna or wave launching structure developed by Nikola Tesla.
- Tesla Coil
- An electrical oscillator developed by Nikola Tesla which produces high voltage, radio frequency alternating electric current.
- Tesla Coil Transmitter
- A Tesla coil configured specifically for the purpose of wireless transmission of electrical energy using either of two ground-based methods.
- Tesla Effect
- The wireless transmission of electrical energy between a Tesla coil transmitter and a Tesla receiving transformer by the means of electrical currents.
- Tesla Receiving Transformer
- A grounded resonance transformer specifically intended for the reception of energy transmitted by a Tesla coil transmitter.
- Tesla Turbine
- A rotary engine consisting of multiple ported disks where high velocity gases enter tangentially through a wide nozzle at the periphery of the disks.
- Tesselation
- A covering of a plane with congruent copies of the same region with no holes or overlaps.
- Test Equipment
- A general term applied to devices used to test electrical and electronic circuits.
- Test Oil
- Any oil subjected to evaluation in an established procedure.
- Test Parameter
- A specified component, property, or condition of a test procedure.
- Tetrachloromethane
- Alternative name for Carbon Tetrachloride.
- Tetrad
- Unit of quantity equal to four.
- Tetraethyl Lead
- An octane enhancer.
- Tetrafluoromethane
CF4
Colourless and odourless gas, used in circuit board manufacture, manufacture of insulating materials and semiconductors. Also used as a low temperature refrigerant.
- Tetragon
- A four-sided polygon.
- Tetrahedral
- A molecular shape that results when there are four bonds and no lone pairs around the central atom in the molecule.
- Tetrode
- A four-electrode tube or transistor.
- Tetrode Tube
- A four-electrode electron tube containing a plate, a cathode, a control grid, and a screen grid.
- Tetromino
- A four-square polyomino.
- TeV
- Abbreviation of Tera electron Volt.
- Tex
- The unit of linear density equal to the mass in grams per 1000 m of fibre, yarn, or other textile strand.