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Glossary of IT Terms beginning with "T"

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T&C
Terms and Conditions, details ...
TAG/MRTD
Technical Advisory Group on Machine Readable Travel Documents, details ...
TAPI
Telephony Application Programming Interface, details ...
TAPISRV
TAPI Server, details ...
TB
Terabyte / Text-Back / Tuberculosis, details ...
TBA
To be agreed / To be announced / To be arranged, details ...
TBC
To be confirmed / To be considered / To be continued / Time base corrector, details ...
TBD
To be done / To be determined / Technical Background Document / To be decided / To be developed, details ...
TBH
To be honest, details ...
TBI
To Be Implemented / Traumatic Brain Injury, details ...
Tcl
Tool Command Language, details ...
Tcl/Tk
Tool Command Language/Tool Kit, details ...
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol, details ...
TCPA
Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, details ...
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, details ...
TD-1
Size 1 machine readable travel document, details ...
TD-2
Size 2 machine readable travel document, details ...
TDD
Time Division Duplex / Test Driven Development, details ...
TDM
Time Division Multiplexing, details ...
TDM TLA
Too D*** Many TLAs, details ...
Technology Refresh
The periodic replacement of equipment, details ...
Technology Replacement
Policy for the periodic replacement of equipment, details ...
Temp File
Temporary file, details ...
Temporary File
A short lived file created on a temporary basis by an application, details ...
Terabyte
1024 gigabytes, details ...
Terminal
End point / Computer input-output device / Deadly / Electrical connection point, details ...
TFS
Three Finger Salute, details ...
Thin Client
Client server application requiring minimal network traffic / Computer used only as a network client, details ...
Thinnet
10Base-2, details ...
Thrashing
See Disk Thrashing.
Thread
A strand of cotton / Parallel execution of code in a process / A conversation, details ...
TIA
Thanks In Advance, details ...
TIFF
Tagged Image File Format, details ...
TIGER
Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing System, details ...
TIGER Data
US road and geographic data from TIGER, details ...
TIM
Thermal Interface Material / Timothy, details ...
Time Zone
A region where the same time standard is used, details ...
TINLA
This Is Not Legal Advice, details ...
TKIP
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol, details ...
TLA
Three Letter Acronym, details ...
TLD
Top Level Domain, details ...
TLP
Thread Level Parallelism, details ...
TLS
Transport Layer Security / Thread Local Storage, details ...
TM
Trade Mark / Transaction Manager, details ...
TMP File
Temporary file, details ...
TNA
Training Needs Analysis, details ...
TNS
Transparent Network Substrate, details ...
TNX
Thanks, details ...
TOC
Table of Contents, details ...
TOFU
Text Over, Full-quoted Under, details ...
TOIL
Time Off In Lieu / Long, hard, exhausting work, details ...
Topology
Topology - see Network Topology.
TOS
Terms Of Service / Top Of Stack / The Other Service / TOSLink / Type Of Service, details ...
TOSLink
A standard optical connection for digital audio, details ...
Total Quality Management
Total Quality Management, details ...
TOU
Terms of Use, details ...
TPC
Transaction Processing Council, details ...
TQM
Total Quality Management, details ...
TR
Transmit-Receive / Technology Refresh / Token Ring / Top-Right, details ...
Trawl
To search for, details ...
TRBL
Top Right Bottom Left / Trouble, details ...
Trojan
A malicious application that masquerades as a harmless useful application, details ...
Trojan Horse
A malicious application that masquerades as a harmless useful application, details ...
Troll
Someone who seeks to harass, details ...
Trolling
A form of harassment, details ...
TS
Terminal Server, details ...
TS CAL
Terminal Server Client Access License, details ...
TSP
Telephony Service Provider, details ...
TSR
Terminate Stay Resident / Terminate Stay Ready, details ...
T-SQL
Transact-SQL, details ...
TTFN
Ta Ta For Now, details ...
TTL
Time To Live / Transistor-Transistor Logic, details ...
TTS
Text To Speech, details ...
TVM
Thanks very much, details ...
TWAIN
An interface standard for image acquisition devices, details ...
TXT File
A text file, details ...
TYVMIA
Thank You Very Much In Advance, details ...