List of acronyms: T

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This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter T.

For the purposes of this list:

  • acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome, pronounced to rhyme with cars
  • initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee
  • pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
(a) = acronym, e.g.: SARS – (a) severe acute respiratory syndrome
(i) = initialism, e.g.: CD – (i) compact disc
(p) = pseudo-blend, e.g.: UNIFEM – (p) United Nations Development Fund for Women
(s) = symbol (none of the above, representing and pronounced as something else; for example: MHz – Megahertz)

(Main list of acronyms)

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  • ta – (s) Tamil language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • Ta – (s) Tantalum
  • TA – (i) Target Acquisition – Teaching Assistant – (s) Tera-ampere – (i) Territorial Army (UK) – (s) Tristan da Cunha (ISO 3166 digram)
  • TAA – (i) Transparency Anti-Aliasing – (a) Trans Australia Airlines
  • – (p) U.S. Theater Army Area Command
  • – (p) Theatre Army Air Defence Co-ordinator
  • TAAR – (i) Trace Amine-Associated Receptor
  • TAC – (a) U.S. Tactical Air Command (1946–1992)
  • TACAMO – (p) Take Charge and Move Out (U.S. military)
  • TACAN – (p) Tactical Air Navigation
  • TACC – (i) Tactical Air Control Centre – (USAF) Tanker Airlift Control Center
  • TACCO – (p) Tactical Coordinator
  • – (i) U.S. Theater Aerospace Command & Control Simulation Facility
  • – (p) Tactical Detection And Reporting
  • TACP – (i) Tactical Air Control Party – Technology Applications Certification Program
  • TACSOP – (p) Tactical SOP (Standing Operating Procedure)
  • TADIL – (p) Tactical Digital Information Link
  • – (a) Tactical Air Data Link ("taddle")
  • – (i) Training Aids, Devices, Simulators, and Simulations
  • TAF - (i) Trading Activity Fee assessed by FINRA to recover the costs of supervising and regulating firms.
  • tah – (s) Tahitian language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • TAI – (i) Target[ed] Area of Interest
  • TAJ – (i) Tom and Jerry
  • – (i) Tom and Jerry Tales
  • TALES – (a) Technical Advice and Lexicon for Enabling Simulation
  • tam – (s) Tamil language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • TAN – (s) Tanzania (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
  • TANJ – (a) There Ain't No Justice (used as expletive in the Ringworld novels)
  • – (i) Terrain-Aware Network Planner
  • TANSTAAFL – (a) There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (coined by author Robert A. Heinlein in his The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
  • TAPPS – (a) Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools
  • TARDIS – (a) Time And Relative Dimension In Space (from Doctor Who)
  • TARP – (a) Transparency Accountability Rights for Parents (coined by , founder of )
  • TAROT – (a) Télescope à action rapide pour les objets transitoires (French, "Transient Object Rapid Action Telescope")
  • TAS – Tasmania (postal symbol)
  • TASER – (a) Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle
  • TASM – (i) Tactical Air-to-Surface Missile
  • tat – (s) Tatar language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • TAT – (i) Tourism Authority of Thailand
  • TATP – (p) TriAcetone TriPeroxide

TB[]

  • Tb – (s) Terbium
  • TB – (p) Tuberculosis
  • TBA – (i) to be announced
  • TBBPA – (p) TetraBromoBisPhenol-A
  • TBC – (i) to be confirmed, to be continued
  • TBD – (i) "to be documented", "to be determined", or "to be decided"
  • TBD – (i) Torpedo Boat Destroyer
  • TBF – To be fair
  • TBGRI – (i) Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, India
  • TBH – (i) To Be Honest
  • TBL – (i) Turkish Basketball League
  • TBM – (i) Tactical Ballistic Missile – Theatre Ballistic Missile
  • TBS – (i) Turner Broadcasting System
  • TBT – (p) Tributyltin

TC[]

  • TCC – (s) Tarrant County College
  • Tc – (s) Technetium
  • TC – (s) Teracoulomb – Turks and Caicos (ISO 3166 digram) – United Arab Emirates (FIPS 10-4 country code; from Trucial Coast States)
  • TCA – (i) Transformational Communications Architecture – (s) Turks and Caicos (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • TCAS – (i) Traffic Collision Avoidance System
  • TCAA – (i) Top Counter-Assault Agents
  • TCBY - (i) The Country's Best Yogurt
  • TCCCS – (i/a) Tactical Command, Control, and Communications System ("ticks")
  • TCD – (s) Chad (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • TCG – (i) Trusted Computing Group – Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Gemisi
  • TCHD – (i) Truck Cargo Heavy Duty
  • TCL – (i) Tool Command Language
  • TCM – (i) Turner Classic Movies
  • TCP – (i) Traffic Control Point – Transmission Control Protocol – Trichlorophenol
  • TCU – (i) Texas Christian University
  • – (i) Tele-Center Workforce Management System
  • TCW – (i) Tasty Coma Wife

TE[]

  • te – (s) Telugu language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • Te – (s) Tellurium
  • TE – (i) Tactical Exploitation – (p) Testosterone to Epitestosterone ratio – (i) Tight end (American football; position generally not used in modern Canadian football)
  • TEAL – (a) Tasman Empire Airways Limited
  • Team – (a) Together everyone achieves more
  • TEAMS – (a) The East African Marine System (fiber optic cable)
  • TED – (a) Technology Entertainment Design prize
  • TEEL – parts of a body paragraph in an essay:[1][2][3] * T - Topic sentence E - Explanation E - Evidence L - Link
  • – (a) Tried Everything Else, Try Homeopathy (medical diagnosis in-joke)
  • tel – (s) Telugu language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • TEL – (a/i) Transporter, Erector and Launcher
  • TELAR – (a) Transporter, Erector, Launcher And Radar
  • – (a) Training, Exercise, and Military Operations
  • – (p) Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities
  • (Stargate) – Transphase Emission Rods
  • TERS – (i) Tactical Event Reporting System
  • TES – (i) Tactical Event System
  • TEST – (a) Thesaurus of Engineering and Scientific Terms
  • TEU – (i) Twenty-foot equivalent unit (cargo capacity)
  • TeVeS – (p) Tensor Vector Scalar theory

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TI[]

  • ti – (s) Tigrinya language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • Ti – (s) Tebi – Titanium
  • TI – (s) Tajikistan (FIPS 10-4 country code) – (i) Thermal Imaging – Threat Identification – Training Instructor – Texas Instruments
  • TIA – (i) Total Information Awareness initiative
  • TIA – (i) Transient Ischemic Attack
  • TIALD – (i) Thermal Imaging and Airborne Laser Designation
  • TIAA-CREF – (i, pronounced as "T-I-A-A-cref") Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association – College Retirement Equities Fund
  • TIBS – (a) Tactical Information Broadcast System
  • TIC – (a) Troops In Contact
  • TID – (p) Target Identification – (i) ter in die (Latin, "three times daily")
  • – (a) Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing System
  • TIM – (a) Technical Information Memorandum – Technical Interchange Meeting – Toxic Industrial Material – Telecom Italia Mobile
  • TIMS – (a) – The Institute of Management Sciences – The International Molinological Society – Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner – Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry – Travel Information Management Services – Tuberculosis Information Management System
  • TINC – (a) There Is No Cabal
  • TINY – That Is, Not You (internet slang)
  • TIP – (a) Thermal Identification Panel
  • tir – (s) Tigrinya language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • tits – Toes in the Sand

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TK[]

TL[]

  • tl – (s) Tagalog language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • Tl – (s) Thallium
  • – T1 Line Performance Monitor
  • TL
    • (i) Team Leader
    • (s) Teralitre
    • Timor-Leste (ISO 3166 digram)
    • (p) ThermoLuminescence
  • TL;DR (i) – Too long; didn't read
  • TLATOJL – The Life and Times of Juniper Lee
  • TLA
    • (i) Three-Letter Abbreviation/Acronym
    • (ii) 'Three-Letter Agency' (i.e. CIA, FBI, NSA, etc.)
    • (i) Temporal light artefacts
  • TLAM – (i) Tomahawk Land Attack Missile
  • TLAR
    • (i) That Looks About Right (chat shorthand)
  • TLC
    • (i) Tender Loving Care
    • The Learning Channel (now known strictly by the initials)
    • Thin-layer chromatography
    • T-Boz, Lefteye, Chilli
    • Tables, Ladders, and Chairs (type of professional wrestling match)
  • TLD
  • TLE
  • TLI
    • (i) Temporal light interference
  • TLM
    • (i) Traditional Latin Mass
    • Tridentine Latin Mass
    • (i) Temporal light modulation
  • TLS
    • (s) Timor-Leste (ISO 3166 trigram)
    • (i) Times Literary Supplement

TM[]

  • Tm
    • (s) Terameter
    • Thulium
  • TM
    • (i) Technical Manual
    • Theater Missile
    • Thematic Mapper
    • (p) trademark (often written in small superscript type: TM or ™)
    • (i) Turing machine
    • (s) Turkmenistan (ISO 3166 digram) Tympanic Membrane
  • TMA
    • (i) (restricted flying zone)
    • Texas Medical Association
    • Tristeza y muerte de agave (Spanish, "wilting and death of agave") – a disease affecting the blue agave, from which the popular spirit tequila is produced
  • TMAP – (a/i) Texas Medication Algorithm Project
  • TMC – (i) The Movie Channel
  • TMD – (i) Theater Missile Defense
  • TMDK – (i) The Mighty Don't Kneel (Australian professional wrestling stable also active in Japan)
  • TMI – (i) Too Much Information
  • TMJ – (i) TemporoMandibular Joint (syndrome)
  • TMM – (s) Turkmen manat (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • TMNT – (i) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • TMO
  • TMP
    • (s) East Timor (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 2002)
    • (p) Temporary
  • – (i) Transparent Multiplatform Gateway
  • TMR – (i) Twin Main Rotors (helicopter type)
  • TMS – (i) Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
  • TMT – (i) Thirty Meter Telescope
  • TMTOWTDI – (i) There's More Than One Way To Do It (from Perl)
  • TMZ – (i) Thirty-Mile Zone, an area in and around Los Angeles considered "local" under entertainment industry union work rules

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TQ[]

  • TQ – (i) Top Qualifier (similar to Pole Position in car racing)

TR[]

  • tr – (s) Turkish language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • TR – (s) Turkey (ISO 3166 digram)
  • TRA – (i)
  • TRAC – (p) (U.S. Army) TRADOC Analysis Center
  • TRACON – (a) Terminal Radar Approach Control
  • TRADOC – (p) (U.S. Army) Training and Doctrine Command
  • TRAIN – (p) Tourist Railway Association, Inc.
  • TRANSCOM – (p) U.S. Transportation Command
  • TRAP – (p) Tactical Receive equipment and related Applications
  • – (p) TRADOC Systems Analysis Agency
  • TRD – (i) Towed Radar Decoy
  • TRIGAT – (p) Third Generation Antitank (missile)
  • TRIPS -Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
  • TRL – (i) Technology readiness level
  • Trp – (s) Troop
  • TRP – (i) Target Reference Point – (p) Time of Reporting
  • TRU – (a) Transuranic
  • – (p) Training in Urban Environment Exercise
  • TRW – (i) Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc.
  • TRY – (s) Turkish lira (ISO 4217 currency code)

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  • TWA - Trans World Airlines
  • tw – (s) Twi language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • TW – (s) Republic of China (Taiwan) (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram) –
  • TW terawatt
  • TWAIN – (a) Technology Without An Interesting Name
  • TWD – (s) Taiwan dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • TWE – (a) Trans World Entertainment
  • twi – (s) Twi language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • TWI – (i) The Welding Institute
  • TWN – (s) Republic of China (Taiwan) (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • TWP – (i) Technical Working Paper
  • Twp - township
  • TWS – (i) Thermal Weapon Sight – Track While Scan
  • TWT - traveling wave tube
  • TWX - telex
  • TWIP – (a) Take What Insurance Pays – When a surgeon agrees to accept a lower payment than he ordinarily would for a procedure and not charge the patient the difference

TX[]

  • TX – (s) Texas (postal symbol) – Transmit – Turkmenistan (FIPS 10-4 country code)
  • TXV – Thermostatic Expansion Valve

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References[]

  1. ^ "TEEL Paragraph Writing Guide" (PDF). St Leonard's College. July 2012. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  2. ^ Ding, Campbell (2016-10-04). "Paragraph structure". RMIT University. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  3. ^ "How to Write a Body Paragraph | Part 4 Essay Writing". Matrix Education. 2020-05-12. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  4. ^ this little world: A Journey Around England – Chapter 6 Archived 2007-04-11 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ its-chemistry: February 2006: integrated marketing experiences Archived 2007-04-23 at the Wayback Machine
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