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T.E.C
T.E.C. is the abbreviation of Threshold Exceeds Condition, and is used to determine the supposed lifetime of computer hard disks. It is used by several harddisk monitoring applications. See also SMART (Self Monitoring And Reporting Technology) ..
TEC
TEC may refer to: Tallinn English CollegeTEC-XX, a fictional computer from the video game [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]Thermoelectric Cooler, a device which uses the Peltier effect to act as a heat pumpTEC, a professional Counter-Strike clan.TEC, a public transport company in BelgiumTeleco..
Tec-Mec
Tec was a Formula One constructor from Italy. They participated in a single grand prix. Complete Formula One results Yr Main drivers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1959 F.d'Orey MON IND DUT FRA GBR DEU POR ITA USA ..
Tecalitlán
Tecalitlán is a city in the central Mexican state of Jalisco, located just to the south of Ciudad Guzmán. According to the 1990 census, its population was 13,265. Industry One of Tecalitlán's major industries is the growing of sugar cane. Culture Tecalitlán is at the heart of the region where..
Tecapán
Tecapán is a municipality in the Usulután department of El Salvador. ..
Tecate
Tecate. Tecate is a small city in the Mexican state of Baja California, located at [32°34′30″N, 116°37′7″W] on the border with the United States. There is a border crossing which is much quieter than nearby Tijuana or Mexicali, making it a more accurate representation of sm..
Tecate, California
Tecate, California is an unincorporated community in San Diego County, California directly adjacent to Tecate, Mexico. The area is best known for its relatively uncrowded border crossing between the United States and Mexico, and nearby Tecate Peak. ..
Tecate (municipality)
Tecate is a municipality in the Mexican state of Baja California. Its municipal seat is located in the city of Tecate. According to the 2000 census, it had a population of 75,795 inhabitants, and 91,025 in 2005. ..
TECC
TECC is a non-profit organization that leads teams of Chinese and American entrepreneurs in developing and implementing social ventures focused on technology and education. TECC believes that a great deal of positive social impact can arise from leveraging a socially conscious and motivated network,..
Tecciztecatl
In Aztec mythology, Tecciztecatl ("old moon god"; also Tecuciztecal, Tecuciztecatl) was a lunar deity, representing the old "man-on-the-moon". He could have been the sun god, but he feared the sun's fire, so Nanahuatzin became the sun god and Tecciztecatl (in the form of a rabbit) was promptly thro..
TecDAX
The TecDAX stock index tracks the performance of 30 largest German companies from the technology sector. The companies rank in terms of order book turnover and market capitalization rank below those included in the DAX. TecDAX is based on prices generated in Xetra, an electronic trading system. Bet..
Tech
Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tech may refer to: an abbreviation for technology, and terms that are derived from it, such as technical support or techno musicThe Tech River in FranceGhettotech, the genre of Miami bass-techno fusionIn Warcraft III, the process ..
Tech-Com
Tech-Com is the resistance force of freed human beings in The Terminator universe. The force is formed by John Connor, a human being who leads Tech-Com to resist the robotic forces of Skynet. War Against Machines After the resistance army was started by Connor, a global war raged between Skynet a..
Tech-trance
Tech-trance, or Tek-Trance, is a subgenre of trance. It has many technological sounds, earning it its name. Pioneering artists include 2 Bald Men and Tiesto. Pioneering Tracks Arrakis-Aira Force..
Techagreements
TechAgreements.com The first completely searchable database of legal agreements extracted from the publicly disclosed US SEC filings. Users can search thc contents of all legal documents that have been filed with the SEC. Users can search through these historical filings to gain a greater underst..
Techalites
Origins The word techalites is a coinage created by Daniel Briant. The word is an amalgamation and condensation of "Technology" and "Neophytes", with the second part bastardised into a form more easily spelled and pronounced. Meaning techalites has no formal definintion, but a loose translation mi..
TechCASTtv
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since April 2006. techCASTtv is an IPTV s..
TechCrunch
TechCrunch is a blog about web 2.0 products & companies, mainly written by Michael Arrington. The blog's first post was on June 11 2005 [#endnote_fp]. The website's Technorati rank is 33[#endnote_tr]. As of June 30 2006, it has 78,972 readers subscribed to its FeedBurner RSS feed&..
TECHEVAC
TECHEVAC is an abbrieviation of Technical Evacuation. Is is used to evacuate various military vehicles when severly damaged. ..
Techfest
Contents 1 Introduction2 Organization3 History and Growth4 Edition Synopses4.1 Techfest 19984.2 Techfest 19994.3 Techfest 20004.4 Techfest 20014.5 Techfest 20024.6 Techfest 20034.7 Techfest 20044.8 Techfest 20054.9 Techfest 20065&nbs..
TechFoundation
TechFoundation is a public charity that provides technology, expertise, and capital to the nonprofit sector. It is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and was founded by David Altshuler. External links [TechFoundation] TechFoundation Programs [TechMarketplace][TechConnect�..
Techichpotzin
Techichpotzin, or Tecuichpotzin (c. 1510 - December 9, 1550 ) was the daughter of the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II. Once the Spanish Conquistadores had invaded what is now Mexico, the Aztec princess was baptized a Christian with the name Isabel Moctezuma. Isabel was the sole heiress to her father's ..
Techie
Techie has grown to have two meanings. One is more a derivative of geek while the other is a name for stage crew. Techie (Technology) Techie is a term, derivative of the word technology, for a person who displays a great, sometimes even obsessive, interest in technology, as well as high-tech devices..
Techiman
Techiman is a city in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana (West Africa). It is located at the Tano River. ..
Techiman Municipal District
Techiman Municipal District Region Brong Ahafo Region District type Ordinary District Chief Executive Prince Yaw Donyina Capital Techiman Area 1,119 km² Population (2002) 173,742 ISO 3166 GH-BA-TE The Techiman Municipal District is a district of Ghana in the Brong Ahafo Region. So..
Techint
The Organización Techint group is a multinational group based in Argentina, founded in 1945 by Italian immigrant Agostino Rocca, which currently holds stock in over 100 engineering, steel, oil, gas and service companies. Techint's company name was originally "Compagnia Tecnica Internazionale" (ita..
Techirghiol
Techirghiol is a town in Constanţa County, Romania. The name is derived from the Turkish Tekirgöl which means "the lake of Tekir". The town (which is also a spa) was founded in 1893 near the Techirghiol Lake (11,6 km2). Population 1991: 6,7462002: 7,388. ..
Techkriti
Techkriti is the annual science and technology festival of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT/K). It is usually held in the last week of February or the first week of March each year. Techkriti is an inter-collegiate festival wherein colleges from all over India are eligible to particip..
Techland
Techland is a Polish software developer. Techland was founded in 1991, and initially focused on localization of foreign software for the Polish market. Later, the company branched out, and began to develop its own software. Techland products include translation software and computer games. Games C..
Techlink
Techlink is a technology education website that has facilitated links between schools and the enterprise community in New Zealand in two ways – by publishing examples of technological practice and by facilitating units of technology education that involve technologists. This website was establishe..
TechLive
TechLive (formerly known as ZDTV News) (1998-2004) was a live television program on the former technology-oriented channel TechTV (now known as G4). TechLive broadcasted technology and entertainment related news, product reviews, and stock market reports. The program was cancelled when TechTV and G4..
Techmospheric
Techmospheric is a new form of drum and bass that evolved from the roots of intelligent drum and bass but expands upon its formula, often adding a more dancefloor oriented approach with the types of beats and bass that are used. The sound came to fruition in 2005, after ASC coined the phrase for ..
Technacy
Technacy is the ability to understand, apply and communicate creative solutions that combine tools, resources and an agent with intentions to meet a design brief or task for a given context. It is that ability to show an holistic understanding of a technology, and make rounded judgements for effec..
Technagogy
Technagogy is defined as the application and integration of multiple technologies to teach concepts, principles, and skills that require social, cognitive, emotional, and/or affected domains for the purpose of assimilating new information into decision making knowledge strands. Technagogy is not a..
Technarchy
The Technarchy, or Technarchs, are a cybernetic, shapeshifting, fictional species of extraterrestrial origin in the Marvel Comics' universe, created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bill Sienkewicz. Its most notable members are the former New Mutants member Warlock and his "siredam," the supervi..
Technate
The word technate was originated by Technocracy Inc. to describe the region over which a technocratic society operates. All resources of this land region are used by a technocracy to provide an abundance of goods and services to its citizens. According to technocrats, a Technate cannot simply be s..
Techne
As distinguished from episteme, the Greek word technê (literally: craftsmanship) is often translated as craft or art. It is the rational method involved in producing an object or accomplishing a goal or objective. The means of this method is through art. Techne resembles episteme in the implication..
TechNet
TechNet was established in 1991 as a closed research and development computer network for academics at the [National University of Singapore] (NUS). It was set up by the National Science and Technology Board of Singapore (NSTB), providing Singapore's first Internet access service. TechNet..
Technet
For the computer research and development company of the same name, see TechNet. The Technet are a group of time-travelling bounty hunters in Marvel Comics, who appeared mostly in the pages of Captain Britain and Excalibur. The Technet is a team of bounty hunters, founded and originally led by a..
Technetium
[Featured articles   ] |- ! colspan="2" style="background:#ffc0c0; color:black" | References |} Technetium is a chemical element that has the symbol Tc and the atomic number 43. Pronounced (IPA) [tɛkˈniʃɪəm], the chemical properties of this silvery grey..
Technetium(VI) fluoride
This article lacks information on the [Importanceimportance] of the subject matter. If you are familiar with it, please expand the article, or discuss its significance on the talk page. Technetium(VI) fluoride General Other names Molecular formula TcF6 Molar mass 212 g/mo..
Technetium-99m generator
The first "technetium cow" (a device for separating Tc-99m from its parent isotope, Mo-99) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. A technetium-99m generator, or colloquially a technetium cow is a device used to extract the metastable isotope 99mTc of technetium from a source of decaying molybdenum..
Techne Ltd.
Techne Ltd. was a company founded in Cambridge, UK by Norman DeBruyne to manufacture gelation timers and thermal cycler equipment. The company was sold after the founder's death by his son John. After changing hands many times, the company finally closed in 2005. Techne branded products are now manu..
Technibond
Technibond is a Trademarked plating process for Jewelry sold exclusively by the Home Shopping Network. It consists of 40 mm of 18 carat (75%) gold bonded to sterling silver. Each piece has a lifetime manufacturer's warranty against damage to the complete piece, including plating and stones. Technib..
Technical
Technical may mean: a specialisation or a developed use of a techniqueany precise method, or knowledge of that method of operating technologyVocational education, often known as technical education.Technical (fighting vehicle)This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articl..
Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section
The Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section (almost exclusively known as TASS) was a British trade union. In 1970, the Draughtsmen's and Allied Technicians' Association (DATA), Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry Workers (AUEFW) and Constructional Engineering Union (CEU) amalgama..
Technical (fighting vehicle)
A technical is an improvised fighting vehicle, typically by a local irregular military force and usually being a modified civilian vehicle or other similar machine. It is usually an open-backed civilian pickup truck on which is mounted a recoilless rifle, heavy machine gun, mortar, or another rela..
Technical advisor
A technical advisor is an individual who is expert in a particular field of [[wiktionary:knowledge|knowledge]], hired to provide information in that field to a movie or television director, to ensure that this area of knowledge is portrayed accurately in the production. For example, a director for a..
Technical Advisory Council
The Technical Advisory Council, or TAC, is a federal advisory committee of the Federal Communications Commission and the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology (OET). Its mandate is to provide the FCC with technical advice in rapidly growing fields such as cable television, telephony, and the In..
Technical Advisory Service for Images
The Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI) provides advice to the United Kingdom's Further Education (FE) and Higher Education (HE) communities in the creation and use of digital images. Its services include a Web site [link], helpdesk, training programme [link], and mailin..
Technical Alliance
The Technical Alliance formed at the end of World War I was one of America's first think tanks. Their main task was the Energy Survey of North America. Once this task was completed the Alliance was disbanded during the Great Depression. Their findings led to the inception of the Technocratic movemen..
Technical analysis
Technical analysis is the study of a security's price action for the purpose of forecasting probable price trends and movement. Price action is defined as movement in a security's price, volume, and open interest. Primarily, but not exclusively, technical analysis is conducted by studying charts ..
Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities
Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES The Traders’ Magazine™ is a U.S. based monthly magazine about commodity futures contracts, stocks, options, derivatives and forex. It was established in 1986 and today covers global industry trends, prominent people, trading technology, managed funds, ..
Technical Analysis Software (Finance)
Technical Analysis Software is used to analyze quantitative data in several securities and financial markets, especially price data, volume data and sentiment data. See also Algorithmic_tradingTechnical Analysis Software includes: AMIBROKERChartAlert - An EoD technical analysis decision support an..
Technical and Further Education
Technical and Further Education or TAFE institutions are a type of adult education organisation in Australia. They offer a wide range of predominantly vocational tertiary education courses. Fields covered include hospitality, tourism, construction, secretarial skills, visual arts, computer program..
Technical architecture
Technical architecture refers to the structured process of designing and building software architecture, with focus on interaction with software developers. Contents 1 Introduction2 Steps3 Processes3.1 Technical process3.1.1 Requirements3.1.2 Specification3.1.3 ..
Technical Architecture Group
Technical Architecture Group, a body of W3C. W3C has created the TAG to document and build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary, to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG, and to help coordinate c..
Technical atmosphere
A technical atmosphere (symbol: at) is a non-SI unit of pressure equal to 1 kilogram-force per square centimeter, i.e. 98.066 5 kilopascals (kPa) or about 0.96784 standard atmospheres. The symbol "at" clashes with that of the katal, "kat": a kilotechnical atmosphere would have the symbol "kat..
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA)
The [Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU] (CTA) was established in 1983 under the Lomé Convention between the [ACP countries] and EU member states. Since 2000 CTA has operated within the framework of the ACP-EU [Cotonou Agreement]. As stated ..
Technical change
A technical change is a term used in economics to describe a change in the amount of output produced from the same inputs. A technical change is not necessarily technological as it might be organizational, or due to a change in a constraint such as regulation, input prices, or quantities of inputs. ..
Technical Club of Madison
The Technical Club of Madison was founded in 1921 in Madison, Wisconsin, as an association of persons sharing technical interests. In the 1920s and 1930s club meetings could draw hundreds of attendees. Speakers such as the industrial engineer Lillian Gilbreth, and Mammoth Cave lecturer Alonzo W. Pon..
Technical communication
Technical communication is the process of conveying information about a specific technology to an intended audience. Products that provide technical communication include user manuals, technical manuals, product specifications, process and procedure manuals, training, business papers, and reports...
Technical communication (Forums)
There are many forums available on the internet that provide support, assistance, debate, or argument on all facets of Technical communication. The activity levels on these forums varies from almost nonexistent to extremely busy. Some forums are supported by the publisher of the application being ..
Technical communication tools
redirect [[Template:Not verified]] Technical communicators use a variety of tools to create useable information. Often referred to as a "tool set", there is no defined list of tools that are used by all technical writers. However, broad categories of tools are used by most technical writers and co..
Technical control facility
In telecommunication, a technical control facility (TCF) is a physical plant, or a designated and specially configured part thereof, that (a) contains the equipment necessary for ensuring fast, reliable, and secure exchange of information, (b) typically includes distribution frames and associated pa..
Technical Coordinator
The American Radio Relay League Technical Coordinator (TC) is a section-level official appointed by the Section Manager to coordinate all technical activities within the section. The Technical Coordinator reports to the Section Manager and is expected to maintain contact with other section-level ap..
Technical crew
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Technical death metal
Technical death metal, or tech death for short, is a term used to describe bands in the subgenre death metal. As death metal bands began further exploring the genre, they experimented with a variety of song structures, tempos, and playing techniques from other genres to create music that changed the..
Technical decision
A technical decision is a term used in boxing when a fight has to be stopped because of a headbutt. In boxing fights, referees have to pay deep attention to the action going on between the fighters, specially when the two combatants are fighting close to each other. This is because, in the case of ..
Technical demos for the Virtual Boy
Nintendo's Virtual Boy console was one of the worst flops in video game history. Because of its short life span, there were few games made for the system. It is due to this lack of games that makes the technical demos for the Virtual Boy a valueable resource for seeing what the Virtual Boy could h..
Technical Design Advisor
A Technical Design Advisor is a role in Information technology, in which the person is charged with advising in technical aspects of design. ..
Technical Difficulties
Technical Difficulties is a greatest hits compilation released by Christian metal band Training For Utopia. Track Listing "Modus Operandi""Dead Signal""A Good Feeling""Tennessee Midget""Two Hands""A Gift To A Dying Friend""Falling Cycle""Everything, Including The Stars, Is Falling (Baby)""New Yo..
Technical Difficulties (filk group)
Technical Difficulties is a Filk group composed of Sheila Willis, Linda Melnick and T.J. Burnside (now T.J. Burnside Clapp). External links [Biography] ..
Technical director
The Technical Director or Technical Producer (TP) is usually the most senior technical person within a single business unit of a company. This person usually possesses the highest level of competence in a specific technical field and may be recognized as an expert in that industry. The technical dir..
Technical diving
Technical diving is a form of SCUBA diving that exceeds the scope of recreational diving. Technical divers require advanced training, extensive experience, and specialized equipment. Contents 1 Definitions1.1 Depth1.2 Stops1.3 Mixes1.4 Ability to ascend2 Equipment3&n..
Technical drawing
--> Technical drawing, also known as drafting or draughting, is the technique of creating accurate representations of objects for architecture and engineering drawings. A skilled practitioner of the art is known as a draftsman or draftsperson (or draughtsman, draughtsperson in the UK). Today the me..
Technical Ecstasy
Technical Ecstasy is the 1976 album from heavy metal band Black Sabbath. It is regarded in some circles as the weakest Ozzy Osbourne-era album. During the time period in which this album was made, the band was heavily into drugs. Technical Ecstasy continued the band's separation from its signatu..
Technical education in Japan
Western-style technical education in Japan began in earnest in the Meiji period with the founding of the British-dominated Imperial College of Engineering. In the modern day it is carried on in the engineering faculty of Tokyo University and other engineering faculties of public and private universi..
Technical English words in Hindi
English Hindi Comment HTML एच.टी.एम.एल There isn't a translation for Hyper-Text Markup Language as yet and thus a phonetic translation (एच.टी.एम.एल) is acceptable. PHP पी.एच.पी There isn't a translation for the full form of PHP which is the recursive ab..
Technical evangelist
A technical evangelist is a person who promotes the use of a particular product or technology through talks, articles, blogging, user demonstrations, recorded demonstrations, or the creation of sample projects. The word evangelism is taken from the context of religious evangelism because of the si..
Technical Fall
In amateur wrestling, a technical fall, or technical superiority, is a victory condition satisfied by outscoring your opponent by a specified number of points. In folkstyle wrestling, a differential of fifteen points ends the match regardless of when it occurs. Under the old rules of freestyle and..
Technical fix
Technical fix is a term applied to an engineering or technical solution to a problem caused by human nature. Frequently the solution is an impractical, frequently humorous, proposal such as the Internet Protocol Evil bit or the "suitable application of high explosives" to interpersonal problems. ..
Technical flatground skateboarding
Technical flatground skateboarding is the performance of complicated maneuvers on flat ground; meaning that there are no ramps, rails, or any obstacles of any kind except a person and their skateboard. Tricks often include many different kinds of flips and spins including rail tricks, 50-50 tricks..
Technical Floating Point
The Technical Floating Point (TFP) model was a new set of instructions designed by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which was used to replace the x87 floating point capabilities in the original Intel IA-32 architecture. The x87 floating point model is the model Intel added into its x86 (IA-32) archi..
Technical foul
In basketball, a technical foul is an infraction of the rules usually concerning unsportsmanlike non-contact behavior. Contents 1 Infractions2 Penalty3 Famous instances4 External links Infractions Many violations can result in the call of a technical foul. One of the most co..
Technical government
A technical government is a non-party government made up of unelected 'technocrats' such as civil servants, magistrates or experts from outside the political circle such as bankers instead of members of the country's legislature. They are usually formed when it is impossible for a government to be f..
Technical Group
The Technical Group in Irish politics is a group of deputies who associate to increase their speaking rights in Dáil Éireann. In particular, it refers to a loose federation of 22 opposition deputies, created after the 2002 general election. The current Technical Group consists of the Green Party, ..
Technical High School of Campinas
Central historical building of COTUCA. Source: UNICAMP The Technical High School of Campinas (in Portuguese, Colégio Técnico de Campinas - COTUCA), maintained by the State University of Campinas, in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, provides free of charge courses at secondary studies level on N..
Technical illustration
Technical illustration is a way of communicating visually, thoughts or ideas of a technical or scientific nature. Technical illustration is a term which generally covers the figures used in technical documentation. A technical illustration represents a technical unit or a situation in which this..
Technical Information Project
The Technical Information Project (TIP) was an early database project. TIP included over 25,000 records and was used to explore bibliographic coupling between works. Developed by Meyer Mike Kessler at MIT around 1964, some of the innovations in TIP included the use of wild cards, and boolean search..
Technical intelligence
Technical Intelligence (TECHINT) is intelligence about weapons and equipment used by the armed forces of foreign nations (often referred to as foreign materiel). Technical intelligence is intended primarily to allow the armed forces to avoid technological surprise. Knowledge of the characteristic..
Technical Itch
Mark Caro, better known as Technical Itch, is a British electronic music artist, disc jockey, and founder of Technical Itch Recordings and Penetration records. As a musician he works mainly within the jungle and drum and bass genres. He is esteemed to be a progressive producer of jungle, combining m..
Technical Pan
Technical Pan was a panchromatic black and white film produced by Kodak of unique characteristics that have never been replicated. It was generally used as a very slow film, rated at ISO 25 or even 16, although it could be rated at up to ISO 320. This film was grainless to an exceptional degree, es..
Technical pen
A technical pen is a specialized instrument used by an engineer or draftsperson (British: draughtsperson) to make lines of constant width for architectural, engineering or technical drawings. Contents 1 History2 Related Technologies3 References4 External links History Early..
Technical problem
A technical problem is a kind of problem that requires technical knowledge to solve. When such a problem occurs, the client, usually a lay person, calls the product manufacturer's or service provider's technical support department for assistance in resolving the issue. The department will either gi..
Technical rehearsal
The technical rehearsal or tech rehearsal is a rehearsal that focuses on the technological aspects of the performance, in theatrical, musical, and filmed entertainment. Contents 1 Types of tech rehearsals1.1 Dry tech1.2 Wet tech1.3 Pick-up tech rehearsals2 See also Types..
Technical report
A technical report (also: scientific report) is a document that describes the progress or results of technical or scientific research, or the state of a technical or scientific research problem. Such reports are often prepared for sponsors of research projects. Technical reports are today a major s..
Technical Report 1
Technical Report 1 (TR1) is a draft document specifying additions to the C++ Standard Library such as regular expressions, smart pointers, hash tables, and random number generators. TR1 is not yet standardized, but likely will be part of the next official standard mostly as it stands now. In the m..
Technical rescue
Technical rescue refers to those aspects of saving life or property that employ the use of tools and skills that exceed those normally reserved for firefighting and rescue. These disciplines include rope rescue, swiftwater rescue, dive rescue, confined space rescue, snow and ice rescue, cave rescue,..
Technical research ship
--> Technical research ships were used by the U.S. Navy during the 1960s to gather intelligence by monitoring the electronic communications of nations in various parts of the world. At the time these ships were active, the mission of the ships was covert and discussion of the true mission was prohi..
Technical school
Technical school is a general term used for two-year college which provide mostly employment-preparation skills for trained labor, such as welding, culinary arts and office management. United States military Technical school is also the term used in the United States Armed Forces for the job speci..
Technical Sergeant
Technical Sergeantinsignia Technical Sergeant is the sixth enlisted rank in the U.S. Air Force, just above Staff Sergeant and below Master Sergeant. A technical sergeant is a non-commissioned officer and abbreviated as TSgt. Within the enlisted Air Force, promotion to TSgt has historically bee..
Technical Services Staff
Technical Services Staff is the United States Central Intelligence Agency component responsible for providing supporting gadgets, disguises, forgeries, secret writings, and weapons. It also researches, investigates, and experiments with such techniques as "special" interrogation methods, including ..
Technical Software Services
Technical Software Services are a software company in Sydney, Australia. They do software for advertising acencies. External links [corporate site] ..
Technical Solutions, Inc.
Technical Solutions Inc., better known as TECHSOL, is an embedded computer technology company founded in 1996 by engineer Brian Empey. Based in Delta, British Columbia, the company develops and manufactures products based on ARM processors running the Linux operating system. The company's main prod..
Technical standards in colonial Hong Kong
This article is part of the History of Hong Kong series '''Timeline Prehistory Imperial China'''First contacts with the West Opium Wars     First Opium War     Second Opium War British colony (pre-war)     Founding of crown colony     Early 20th..
Technical Standard Order
This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.Please help recruit one, or improve this page yourself}} if you can. See [discussion page] for details. A Technical Standard Order (TSO) is a minimum performance standard issued by the FAA for specified materi..
Technical support
Technical support (also tech support) is a range of services providing assistance with computer hardware, software, or other electronic or mechanical goods. In general, technical support services attempt to help the user solve specific problems with a product—rather than providing training, custom..
Technical Surveillance Counter-Measures
TSCM (Technical Surveillance Counter-Measures) is the original military abbreviation provided to the trade of bug-sweeping or electronic counter-surveillance. It is related to ELINT, SIGINT and ECM. The United States Department of Defense defines a TSCM survey as a service provided by qualified per..
Technical Tap
Definition A technical tap is a term used to describe hitting a device in a way to make it work correctly again. Or break it completely Origins This term's origins are unknown, but became popular in the Second Industrial Revolution where sometimes vacuum tubes or soldered connections would become ..
Technical terminology
Technical terminology is the specialised vocabulary of a profession or of some other activity to which a group of people dedicate significant parts of their lives (for instance, hobbies or a particular segment of industry). Sometimes technical terminology is termed jargon or, particularly in law, t..
Technical University in Koszalin
Technical University in Koszalin is the university located in Koszalin and other cities, i.e. Chojnice. ..
Technical University of Berlin
The Central Institute for Modern Languages at the Technical University Entrance of the Technical University of Berlin The Technical University of Berlin (TUB, TU Berlin, German: Technische Universität Berlin) is located in Berlin in Germany. It was founded in 1879 and has about 29,816..
Technical University of British Columbia
The Technical University of British Columbia (TechBC) was a special-purpose university in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, that operated from 1999 until 2002, when it was closed by the BC government. Its students and programs were transferred to Simon Fraser University to become the core of SFU S..
Technical University of Catalonia
The Technical University of Catalonia (Catalan: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spanish: Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña) is located in the city of Barcelona, Spain. Formerly called Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona, this is one of the largest technical universities in Spain. It wa..
Technical University of Denmark
The Technical University of Denmark (Danish: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, DTU) was founded in 1829 as the 'College of Advanced Technology' (Danish: Den Polytekniske Læreanstalt). The initiative was taken by the renowned physicist Hans Christian Ørsted (then a professor at the University of Cop..
Technical University of Liberec
The Technical University of Liberec is a university in Liberec, Czech Republic. Its roots lie in the Technical College of Mechanical Engineering, which was founded in 1953. The college was promoted to a university and took its current name in 1995. There are currently 5,000 students enrolled in..
Technical University of Lisbon
The Technical University of Lisbon (UTL - Universidade Técnica de Lisboa) is a Portuguese public university. It was created in 1930 in Lisbon, as a confederation of older schools, and comprises, nowadays, the Faculties of Veterinary Medicine; Agricultural Sciences; Economics and Business Administ..
Technical University of Madrid
The Technical University of Madrid (Spanish: , UPM), is a Spanish university, located in Madrid. It was founded in 1971 as the result of merging the different Technical Schools of Engineering. Actually the Schools are spread all over Madrid, instead of being placed in an unified campus. In Spai..
Technical University of Munich
Munich University of Technology, or Technical University of Munich (TUM) (German: Technische Universität München, TUM), is a major German university, located in Munich (and the towns of Garching and Weihenstephan out of Munich). Munich's other major university is the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universi..
Technical University of Nova Scotia
The Technical University of Nova Scotia (formerly the Nova Scotia Technical College) was a university in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada until it became part of Dalhousie University in 1997 and was renamed DalTech. In the early 1900s, at the request of the province of Nova Scotia, Dr. Frederick Sexto..
Technical University of Ostrava
The Technical University of Ostrava (or Vysoká škola báňská – Technická univerzita Ostrava (TUO) in Czech), is university located in the city of Ostrava, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic. The university was founded on 23rd January 1849 in Příbram, but the history dates back to 17..
Technical University of Sofia
The Technical University of Sofia (Bulgarian Технически университет - София, often abbreviated as ТУ, TU or ТУ-София, TU-Sofia), based in Sofia, is the largest technical university in Bulgaria. Founded on 15 October 1945 as part of the State Polytechnic, it is..
Technical University of Szczecin
Technical University of Szczecin (Polish: Politechnika Szczecińska) is one of biggest universities in Szczecin, Poland. Contents 1 History2 Organization2.1 Faculties3 External link History Technical University of Szczecin was established on 1 December 1946 as School of Engin..
Technical University of Łódź
The Technical University of Łódź was created in 1945 and has developed into one of the biggest in Poland. Originally located in an old factory building, today covering nearly 200,000 sq. meters in over 70 separate buildings, the majority of them situated in the main University area. Approximate..
Technical Video Rental
Technical Video Rental is an online DVD rental service, offering per-unit rental-by-mail to customers in the United States and Canada. By 2005, the service carried over 1,000 specialty instructional titles, covering diverse areas such as polymer clay, welding, light aircraft piloting, gunsmithing..
Technical virgin
Technical virgin can refer to: Someone who experiences technical virginityA short video in which Melanie Martinez stars This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to po..
Technical week
Technical week (also called tech week or hell week) refers to the week prior to the opening night of a play in which all of the technical elements (such as costumes, lights, sound, and makeup) are added. At this point in the rehearsal process it is expected that the creative aspects of the producti..
Technical writer
Technical writers create informational media for a field or technology. Their responsibilities, like that of graphic designers, are to effectively communicate a message. Technical writers are responsible for creating media which are helpful, accurate, comprehensible, and accessible to the intended..
Technicare
Technicare, formerly known as Ohio Nuclear, was a maker of CT and MRI scanners as well as other medical imaging equipment. Its headquarters was in Solon, Ohio. Originally an independent company, it was later purchased by Johnson & Johnson. The company did not do well under Johnson & Johnson and i..
Techniche
Techniche provides the perfect platform for budding scientists to interact with some of the best minds in the fields of science and technology. Through Techniche, we seek to bring to the fore the refreshing and phenomenal ideas that would otherwise remain lost in those long-forgotten coffee table co..
Technician
:Technician is also the student newspaper at North Carolina State University. A technician is generally someone in a technological field who has a relatively practical understanding of the general theoretical principles of that field, e.g., as compared to an engineer in that field. They are genera..
Technician (newspaper)
Technician is the student newspaper of North Carolina State University. Its first edition was published in 1920, and it has been published continuously since that date. The newspaper is published five times per week and also has an online presence, www.technicianonline.com. In the mid-1990s it wa..
Technician Ted
Technician Ted, also known as The Chip Factory: Featuring Technician Ted, is a platform computer game for the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum home computers that was published in 1984 by Hewson Consultants. Plot Technician Ted is an enthusiastic young computer hacker who works at the chip factory. H..
Technicolor
For other uses, see Technicolor (physics) or Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Logo celebrating Technicolor's 90th Anniversary. Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation (later, Technicolor, Inc.), now a div..
Technicolor (physics)
In physics, technicolor models are theories beyond the Standard Model (sometimes, but not always, GUTs) which do not have a scalar Higgs field. Instead, they have a larger number of fermion fields than the Standard Model and involve a larger gauge group. This larger gauge group is spontaneously brok..
Technicolor Time Machine
Technicolor Time Machine is a 1967 science fiction novel by Harry Harrison. It is a comedy, a satire on Hollywood, and has a twist in the ending. Plot Summary [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Barney Hendrickson is a movie maker with a problem. He's m..
Technicolour (album)
Technicolour was released in 1996 on Rough Trade Records in the UK and One Little Indian Records in the United States. Counting the In Debt compilation album, this was Disco Inferno's fourth, and final, album of original material. One last EP would follow, 1999's The Mixing It Session, a release..
Technics
Technics is a brand name of Japanese Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. a company that produces a variety of electronic products. Contents 1 Word2 Description3 History4 Models5 Other equipment of note includes6 Trivia7 External links Word Technics is a..
Technics SL-1200
Technics SL-1210 The Technics SL-1200 is a series of turntables manufactured by Matsushita under the brand name of Technics. As of 2006, the Technics SL-1200MK2 is the industry standard turntable for DJ'ing and scratching, MK2 stands for Mark 2, and is an improvement of the Technics SL-1200 ..
Techniec
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Technikal
Technikal (Real Name: Alf Bamford) is a Hard Trance musician and DJ. He is considered a pioneer of the Hard Trance genre. External links [Technikal's Full Discography at Discogs.com] ..
Technikon
Technikon is a term used in South Africa to refer to a university of technology. A synonym is "Technical University". Technikons focus mainly on providing high quality education and giving a hands-on approach to education and training. Technikons lay more emphasis on technology and are renowned to ..
Technikon Witwatersrand
The Technikon Witwatersrand was a technikon located in Johannesburg, South Africa. On 1 January 2005, it merged with Rand Afrikaans University and some campuses of Vista University to form the University of Johannesburg, and is now one of many campuses of the new university. Origins Technikon Witw..
Technik Museum Speyer
The Technik Museum Speyer is a museum in Speyer (Rhineland-Palatinate), Germany. The museum was opened in 1991 as a daughter of the Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum and is run by a registered alliance called "Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim e.V.". As of 2004, it has more than 2,000 exhibits and an exh..
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (הטכניון - מכון טכנולוגי לישראל) is a university in Haifa, Israel, founded 1924. While the Technion focuses on science and engineering, architecture and medicine are also taught. The Technion offers both undergraduate and gradu..
Technip
Technip is a French engineering company, headquartered in La Défense, Paris. It has a workforce of over 20,000 people worldwide, and annual revenues of 5.1 billion euros. Technip ranks among the biggest full-service engineering and construction groups in the field of hydrocarbons and petrochemicals..
Technique
Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A technique is a way of efficiently accomplishing a task in a manner that is not immediately obvious or straightforward. Technique may also refer to: Technology, the study of or a collection of techniquesAnything that can be done e..
Techniques d'Avant Garde
TAG Group (Holdings) SA is a private Luxembourg-based holding company owned by Mansour Ojjeh and Akram Ojjeh, wealthy Saudi entrepreneurs. TAG is an acronym of Techniques d'Avant Garde. Contents 1 History2 Activities2.1 Aviation2.2 Motorsport2.3 Advanced technology2.4&nb..
Techniques for differentiation
This article contains a list of techniques for the differentiation of real functions, categorized by type. Contents 1 Simple polynomial functions2 Exponential functions3 Logarithmic functions4 Trigonometric functions Simple polynomial functions Given a polynomial [p(x)&#..
Techniques of Knowledge
The techniques of Knowledge as taught by Prem Rawat, known as Maharaji to his students, comprises four techniques that he claims will help his students direct their senses within to experience inner peace. Students often describe the experience simply as "going within." These techniques are the sam..
Technique (album)
Technique was the fifth original album by New Order, released in 1989 (see 1989 in music). Partly recorded on the island of Ibiza, it incorporates balearic and acid house influences into the group's techno-rock sound. Technique was the first New Order album to reach number one in the UK charts. "..
Technique (band)
Technique was a female alternative synth pop band from the mid-1990s featuring Kate Holmes of Frazier Chorus and singer Xan Tyler. Technique was named after the New Order 'Ibiza dance' album of 1989 and were signed to the record label of Kate Holmes' husband - Alan McGee's Creation Records. Techni..
Technirama
Technirama is a screen process that was used by some film production houses as an alternative to CinemaScope. It was first used in 1956 but fell into disuse in the mid 1960s. The process was invented by Technicolor and is an anamorphic process with a screen ratio the same as revised CinemaScope (2..
Technischer Überwachungsverein
The TÜV (short for Technischer Überwachungsverein, Technical Monitoring Association in English) is a German organization that aims to protect humans and the environment against hazards coming from factories and mechanisms of all kinds. As an independent consultant, it examines monitoring-needy ..
Technisches Hilfswerk
THW-Logo The Bundesanstalt Technisches Hilfswerk (German Federal Agency for Technical Relief, THW) is an organisation of the German government. Contents 1 Tasks2 History3 Organisation4 References Tasks The tasks of the THW are described in a law called Helferrechtsgeset..
Technische Hochschule
Technische Hochschule (acronym TH) is, what an Institute of Technology (i.e. a university focusing on engineering sciences) used to be called in German speaking countries, before most of them changed their name to Technische Universität (acronym: TU) in the 1970s. This has to do with the fact, tha..
Technische Universität Braunschweig
The Technical University at Brunswick, Lower Saxony, is the oldest of Germany's technical universities. It was founded in 1745 as Collegium Carolinum. Today it has about 13,000 students, making it the third largest university in Lower Saxony. Research projects include Micro Air Vehicles, hybrid engi..
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg is a technical university in Harburg, a suburb of Hamburg, Germany. ..
Techniscope
A Techniscope camera frame. 2-Perf or Techniscope is a 35 mm motion picture camera film format first introduced by Technicolor Italia in 1963Konigsberg, Ira (1987). The Complete Film Dictionary Meridian / NAL Books p. 372. ISBN 0-452-00980-4. Techniscope is distinguished by a negative pulldown..
Techno
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Techno is a form of electronic dance music that became prominent in Detroit, Michigan during the mid-1980s with..
Techno-
Techno- is a prefix for technology-related terms. Examples: Technophobe (one who is afraid of technology, a Luddite)Technophile (someone who enjoys and/or is extremely knowledgeable about technology, a Hacker)Techno-illiterateTechnocracy, Technocrat ..
Techno-organic material
In the fiction, especially in the Marvel Comics universe and Beast Machines, techno-organic material is a material with properties and abilities of both organic and technological (mechanical and information-processing) material. An organism made of techno-organic material may be called a Technologic..
Techno-organic virus
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Techno-progressivism
Part of the Politics series onProgressivism This article has some overlap with these other political positions Schools American Progressivism New Deal liberalism Economic progressivism Educational progressivism Social Progressivism Techno-progressivism Ideas Conservation ethic Efficie..
Techno-thriller
Techno-thrillers are a hybrid genre, drawing subject matter generally from spy thrillers, war novels, and science fiction. They include a disproportionate amount (relative to other genres) of technical detail on its subject matter; only science fiction tends towards a comparable level of supporting ..
Techno-utopia
A techno-utopia in is a hypothetical ideal community, in which laws, government, and social conditions are solely operating for the benefit and well-being of all its inhabitants, set in the near- or far-future, when advanced science and technology will allow these ideal living standards to exist; fo..
Techno-utopianism
Techno-utopianism is any ideology based on the belief that advanced science and technology will eventually bring about a techno-utopia, a future society with ideal living conditions for all its citizens. Contents 1 History of techno-utopianism1.1 Techno-utopianism in the 19th century1...
Technobabble
Technobabble (a portmanteau of technology and babble) is a form of prose using jargon, buzzwords and highly esoteric language to give an impression of plausibility through mystification and misdirection. This is not to be confused with jargon itself, but rather technobabble is a conscious attempt..
Technobots
The Technobots are a subgroup of five Autobots that transform into futuristic vehicles in the Transformers universe. Their counterparts are the Terrorcons. Contents 1 Toyline2 US cartoon3 Marvel comics4 Dreamwave Comics5 IDW Comics6 Generation Two7 External lin..
Technocapitalism
Technocapitalism is a term used by some to describe the changes in capitalism brought about by the emergence of the high technology sector of the economy. Prof. Luis Suarez-Villa, in his 2000 book Invention and Rise of Technocapitalism argues that it is a form of capitalism in which intangibles su..
Technoclash
Technoclash is a Action/Role playing game created by Electronic Arts in 1993 for the Sega Mega Drive (Also know as the Sega Genesis.) Long ago, magic was used in everyday life, the world lived in harmony where wizards lived happily among themselves. A mysterious portal appeared in the sky where m..
Technocore
The TechnoCore is the 'race' of Artificial Intelligences in Dan Simmons' Hyperion universe. Sometime in the 22nd or 23rd century, the AI community peacefully ceded from human service and formed their own culture, but continue to serve humanity as advisors and consultants in almost all matters of i..
Technocracy (bureaucratic)
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. This article pertains to a technocracy as a bureaucratic structure. For other uses of the term, see Technocracy..
Technocracy (disambiguation)
Technocracy (or the adjective technocrat) can refer to: The social and economic system proposed by the Technocratic movement and the organization Technocracy, Inc., which believes that modern technology and a government organized on a scientific basis can lead to a society of abundanceA political ..
Technocracy (EP)
Technocracy is an EP by Corrosion of Conformity. It was released in 1987 on Metal Blade Records, and re-released in 1992 on Relativity Records with four additional songs, including three demo versions of songs from the EP with bassist Mike Dean singing. Track listing "Technocracy""Hungry Child""H..
Technocracy (Mage: the Ascension)
This is an article on technocracy pertaining to a fictional story. For other definitions of the word, see Technocracy (disambiguation) In [[Mage: The Ascension]], the Technocratic Union (or Technocracy) is a world-wide conspiracy that employs a scientific paradigm to pursue an agenda opposed to su..
Technocratic movement
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Technocrat (comics)
Technocrat is a superhero in the DC Comics and a former member of the Outsiders. His first appearance was in Outsiders vol. 2 #1 Alpha, November (1993). written by Mike W. Barr and drawn by Paul Pelletier. Contents 1 History1.0.1 Markovia1.0.2 Gotham1.0.3 Infinite Crisis2&nb..
Technocrat (derogatory)
This article discusses the use of the term technocrat in its derogatory sense. For other uses of the term, see Technocracy (disambiguation). The term "technocrat" in current usage refers to individuals with technical training and occupations who tend to perceive important societal problems as techno..
Technocriticism
Technocriticism is a branch of critical theory devoted to the study of technological change. Technocriticism treats technological change as prosthetic practices, historically specific personal and social practices of research, invention, appropriation, use, argumentation, and discourse, rather ..
Technoculture
Technoculture is a neologism, not currently in standard dictionaries, popularized by editors Constance Penley and Andrew Ross in a book of essays bearing that title.. It refers to the interactions between, and politics of, technology and culture. The word has currency in academia. It is used by a n..
Technodelic
Technodelic was the fifth album by Yellow Magic Orchestra (1981). Track Listing Pure Jam - 4:30Neue Tanz - 4:58Stairs - 4:14Seoul Music - 4:46Light In Darkness - 3:40Taiso - 4:21Gradated Grey - 5:33Key - 4:32Prologue - 2:31Epilogue - 4:21 Credits All songs arranged by YMO Produced by: H Hosono an..
Technodramon
Technodramon is a Mega Level Metal Digimon. He appeared in the WonderSwan games. Abilities Attacks Techno Ball ..
Technodrome
The Technodrome preparing to leave a Dimension X asteroid during the episode My Brother, the Bad Guy The Technodrome is a fictional semi-spherical-tank-like mobile fortress of Krang and The Shredder, the main villains on the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series and the Archie Teena..
Technogaianism
Technogaianism (a portmanteau word combining "techno" for technology and "Gaia" for the Earth Mother of Greek mythology) is the stance that advanced technology can help restore Earth's environment, and that developing such technology should therefore be an important goal of environmentalists. This..
TechnoGirl
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Technohead
Technohead were Pop / Gabba husband and wife duo Michael Wells and Lee Newman. Having met at art school in 1985 they formed a loving and creative partnership that lasted until Newman’s death from cancer on 4 August 1995. Their track I Wanna Be A Hippy reached number 6 in the UK and number 1 in bot..
Technoid
Technoid is an electronic music subgenre that takes its inspiration from IDM, experimental techno and noise music. The end result is usually diverse IDM-influenced rhythms with varying levels of noise and industrial influence. Artists will often use non-conventional sounds within their music, suc..
Technokids
TECHNOKIDS [TechnoKids] TechnoKids Inc. is a trusted and valued publisher of technology curriculum. TechnoKids Computer Curriculum is used to teach thousands of students every day the skills that will best prepare them for the digital age. Founded by Scott Gerard in 1993, TechnoKids Inc..
TechnoKill
''TechnoKill is the fifth novel of the military science-fiction StarFist Saga, written by David Sherman and Dan Cragg. ..
Technologic
"Technologic" Single by Daft Punk From the albumHuman After All Single Released June 14 2005 Single Format CD, 12" Recorded Unknown Genre Dance, Electronica Song Length 4:44 Record label Virgin Records Producer Cédri Hervet, Gildas Loaëc Chart positions #40 UK#10 Hot Dance Music/Clu..
Technological applications of superconductivity
Some of the technological applications of superconductivity include the production of magnetometers based on SQUIDs, digital circuits (including those based on Josephson junctions and rapid single flux quantum technology), Magnetic Resonance Imaging, control magnets in particle accelerators and fusi..
Technological change
This article discusses the economic meaning of the term technological change. A technological change is a term that is used in economics to describe a change in the set of feasible production possibilities. A neutral technological change refers to the behaviour of technological change in models. A..
Technological convergence
Technological convergence is the modern presence of a vast array of different types of technology to perform very similar tasks. For example, in today's society one can communicate with a friend via mail, online chatting, mobile phones, e-mail, and many other forms of modern technology. Though the..
Technological Dating
Technological Dating, finding a potential partner online, has opened up a world of new possibilities for singles. People are stepping away from more traditional gender roles and ideas of dating. With websites such as tickle.com, eharmony.com, match.com, and americansingles.com the dating culture ha..
Technological determinism
Technological determinism is a reductionist doctrine that a society's technology determines its cultural values, social structure, or history. Technological determinism has been summarized as 'The belief in technology as a key governing force in society ...' (Merritt Roe Smith), '... the belief tha..
Technological escalation
Technological escalation describes the fact that whenever two parties are in competition, each side tends to employ continuing technological improvements to defeat the other. Technology is defined here as a creative invention, be it an object or a method of using an object. This is a natural res..