(Main list of acronyms)

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  • T – (s) Tera – tesla – tritium

TA

  • ta – (s) Tamil language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • Ta – (s) Tantalum
  • TA
  • (i) Target Acquisition
  • Teaching Assistant
  • (s) teraampere
  • (i) Territorial Army (UK)
  • (s) Tristan da Cunha (ISO 3166 digram)
  • TAA
  • (i) Transparency Anti-Aliasing
  • (a) Trans Australia Airlines
  • TAAC – (i/a) Trans America Athletic Conference, the original name for the US college sports league now known as the ASUN Conference
  • TAACOM – (p) U.S. Theater Army Area Command
  • TAADCOORD – (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
  • TACCSF – (i) U.S. Theater Aerospace Command & Control Simulation Facility
  • TACDAR – (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
  • TADL – (a) Tactical Air Data Link ("taddle")
  • TADSS – (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
  • TAJT – (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)
  • TANP – (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 Karen Plumridge, founder of Black Ribbon Gold Heart)
  • 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
  • TADC - (i) The Amazing Digital Circus

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
  • TCWMS – (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: * T - Topic sentence E - Explanation E - Evidence L - Link
  • TEETH – (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
  • TEMO – (a) Training, Exercise, and Military Operations
  • TENCAP – (p) Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities
  • TER's(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

TF

  • TF –
  • (s) French Southern Territories (ISO 3166 digram)
  • (i) Task Force
  • (s) Terafarad
  • (?) Too Far
  • (i) Team fortress (hence TF2 is Team Fortress 2)
  • Transformers
  • T/F – (i) True/False (=Yes/No)
  • TFG
  • (i) Task Force Games (defunct tabletop game company)
  • Tiny Friendly Giant (automobile engine developed by Koenigsegg)
  • Transferoviar Grup (Romanian railway company)
  • TFMPP – (p) Trifluorophenylmethylpiperazine
  • TFR – (i) Total Fertility Rate
  • TFT – (i) Thin-Film Transistor
  • TFTP –
  • (i) Trivial File Transfer Protocol
  • (i) Terrorist Finance Tracking Program

TG

  • tg – (s) Tajik language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • Tg – (s) Teragram
  • TG – (s) Togo (ISO 3166 digram)
  • TGA – (s) Tonga (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
  • TGB – (i) Tres grande bibliothèque (French, "Very Large Library"), a sarcastic nickname for the Bibliothèque nationale de France
  • TGIF – (i) Thank God It's Friday, Toes Go In First
  • tgk – (s) Tajik language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • tgl – (s) Tagalog language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • TGO – (s) Togo (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • TGT
  • (p) Target (also the ticker symbol for Target Corporation)
  • (i) Ticket Granting Ticket (computer security)
  • (i) Tyrese, Ginuwine, Tank – see TGT (group) for their collaboration
  • TGV
  • (i) Tanjong Golden Village (Malaysian cinema chain)
  • (p) Tanora malaGasy Vonona (Malagasy, "Young Malagasies Determined" – political party)
  • (i) Test Generation with Verification
  • Train à grande vitesse (French for "High-Speed Train")

TH

  • th – (s) Thai language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • Th – (s) Thorium
  • TH – (s) Terahenry – Thailand (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
  • tha – (s) Thai language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • THA – (s) Thailand (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • THAAD – (a/i) Terminal High Altitude Area Defence
  • THB – (s) Thai baht (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • THEGENTRY – (a) The High-End Group of Earth's New Technologies Research Yield
  • THEL – (a) Tactical High Energy Laser ACTD
  • THG – (p) Tetrahydrogestrinone
  • ThG – (p) Graduate of Theology
  • THSU - (a) Texas Health and Science University

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")
  • TIGERS – (a) Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing System
  • TIM – (a) Technical Information Memorandum – Technical Interchange Meeting – Toxic Industrial Material – Telecom Italia Mobile
  • TIMS – (a) Tactical Internet Management System – 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

TJ

  • TJ – (s) Tajikistan (ISO 3166 digram) – Terajoule
  • TJD – (i) Truncated Julian Day
  • TJK – (s) Tajikistan (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • TJS – (s) Tajik somoni (ISO 4217 currency code)

TK

  • tk – (s) Turkmen language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • TK – (s) Terakelvin – Tokelau (ISO 3166 digram)
  • TKBL – (i) Türkiye 1. Kadınlar Basketbol Ligi, the Turkish-language name of the Turkish Women's Basketball League
  • TKL – (s) Tokelau (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • TKM – (s) Turkmenistan (ISO 3166 trigram)

TL

  • tl – (s) Tagalog language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • Tl – (s) Thallium
  • TLPM – 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
  • TLAC
  • (i) Total Loss Absorbency Capacity
  • (ii) The Light Aircraft Company
  • TLAM – (i) Tomahawk Land Attack Missile
  • TLAR
  • (i) That Looks About Right (chat shorthand)
  • (ii) Transporter-Launcher And Radar
  • 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
  • (i) Thermoluminescent Dosimeter
  • Top-Level Domain
  • TLE
  • (i) Temporal light effects
  • TLI
  • (i) Temporal light interference
  • TLM
  • (i) Traditional Latin Mass
  • Tridentine Latin Mass
  • Transaction Lifecycle Management
  • (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: <sup>TM</sup> or ™)
  • (i) Turing machine
  • (s) Turkmenistan (ISO 3166 digram) Tympanic Membrane
  • TMA
  • (i) Terminal Maneuvering Area (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
  • (i) Table Mountain Observatory
  • Television match official (rugby union)
  • TMP
  • (s) East Timor (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 2002)
  • (p) Temporary
  • TMPG – (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

TN

  • tn – (s) Tswana language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • TN
  • (s) Tennessee (postal symbol)
  • Teranewton
  • Tonga (FIPS 10-4 country code)
  • Tunisia (ISO 3166 digram)
  • TNA – (i) Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, an American professional wrestling promotion
  • TND – (s) Tunisian dinar (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • TNO – (i) Trans-Neptunian Object
  • TNT
  • (i) Thomas Nationwide Transport, an Australian company that was one of the predecessors to the PostNL (previously TNT N.V) and the current TNT Express
  • (p) TriNitroToluene
  • (a/i) Turner Network Television

TO

  • to – (s) Tongan language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • T/O – (i) Theatre of Operations
  • TO
  • (s) Togo (FIPS 10-4 country code)
  • Tonga (ISO 3166 digram)
  • TOA
  • (i) Table Of Authorities
  • Total Obligation Authority (accounting)
  • TOAD
  • (a) Temporary, Obsolete, Abandoned, or Derelict site (urbanism)
  • Towed Optical Assessment Device
  • TOBS – (a) Time of OBServation
  • TOC
  • (a/i) Table Of Contents
  • Tactical Operations Centre
  • (i) Temporo-Occipital transition Cortex
  • Top of Concrete
  • To-do – (s) To-do-List
  • TOG – (s) Togo (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
  • TOGS – (a) Thermal Observation Gunnery Sight
  • TOMS – (a) Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (satellite instrument)
  • ton – (s) Tongan language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • TON – (s) Tonga (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • TOP – (s) Tongan pa'anga (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • TOS
  • (a) Tape Operating System
  • Terms of service
  • The Original Series, used to distinguish the first Star Trek TV series from other parts of the media franchise
  • Tramiel Operating System
  • TOT – (i) Time On Target
  • TOW – (a) Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided (anti-tank missile)

TP

  • TP
  • (s) East Timor (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 2002)
  • São Tomé and Príncipe (FIPS 10-4 country code)
  • (i) Training Practice
  • Trident Ploughshares
  • TPE – (s) Chinese Taipei (IOC and FIFA trigram for the country also known as Taiwan)
  • TPI – (i) The point is
  • TPO – (p) Thrombopoietin
  • TPS – (i) The Pennington School
  • TPTB – (i) The Powers That Be (often used to refer to the people responsible for the content of TV series or movies)

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) Technology Readiness Assessment
  • 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
  • TRASANA – (p) TRADOC Systems Analysis Agency
  • TRD – (i) Towed Radar Decoy
  • TRIGAT – (p) Third Generation Antitank (missile)
  • TRIPS - (a) Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
  • TRL – (i) Technology readiness level
  • Trp – (s) Troop
  • TRP
  • (i) Target Reference Point
  • (p) Time of Reporting
  • TRPF – (i) Tendency of the rate of profit to fall
  • TRU – (a) Transuranic
  • TRUEX – (p) Training in Urban Environment Exercise
  • TRW – (i) Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc.
  • TRY – (s) Turkish lira (ISO 4217 currency code)

TS

  • ts – (s) Tsonga language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • Ts – (s) Terasecond
  • TS
  • (s) Terasiemens
  • Thunderstorm (METAR code)
  • Tunisia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
  • (i) TinySex
  • Transsexual
  • (i) "Tough Sh*t"
  • TSA
  • (i) Theatre Storage Area
  • Time Slot Allocation
  • Transportation Security Administration
  • The Salvation Army
  • TSCA – (a) Toxic Substances Control Act ("tosca")
  • TSEC – (i) Transmission Security Encryption Code
  • TSL – (i) Transportation Security Laboratory
  • tsn – (s) Tswana language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • TSN
  • (i) The Sporting News (historic name of the periodical now known as Sporting News)
  • The Sports Network
  • tso – (s) Tsonga language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • TSO
  • (i) The Stationery Office (was HMSO until 1996)
  • (U.S.) TRICARE Support Office
  • (i) Trans-Siberian Orchestra (band)
  • TSOP
  • (i) Tactical Standing Operation Procedure
  • The Sound of Philadelphia (classic 1970s R&B instrumental)
  • TSR – many, including terminate-and-stay-resident (program)
  • TSSIA – (i) the subject says it all

TT

  • tt – (s) Tatar language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • TT
  • (s) Teratesla
  • (i) Terrestrial Time
  • Tourist Trophy (Motorcycle sport)
  • (s) Trinidad and Tobago (ISO 3166 digram)
  • TTBAO - Things To Be Aware Of
  • TTCT – Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking
  • TTD – (s) Trinidad and Tobago dollar (ISO 4217 currency code)
  • TTO – (s) Trinidad and Tobago (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • TTFN – (i) Ta Ta For Now
  • TTL
  • (i) Tax, Title, License
  • (i) Through-the-lens (photography)
  • Time 'till live
  • Time to live
  • Transistor–transistor logic
  • TTP
  • (i) Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
  • Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
  • Trailer Transfer Point
  • TTTEAF – Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
  • TTY – (i) TeleTYpewriter (Printer)
  • TTYL – (i) Talk To You Later (Internet slang)
  • TTZ – (p) Tetrazolium

TU

  • TU – (i) Technische Universität (German for "Technical University") – Thammasat University (Thailand) – (s) Turkey (FIPS 10-4 country code)
  • TUC – (i) Trades Union Congress
  • TUG – (a) TeX Users Group
  • TUI – (a/i) Text-based user interface (cf. CLI), among other uses
  • tuk – (s) Turkmen language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • TUN – (s) Tunisia (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • TUNS – (i) Technical University of Nova Scotia
  • Tur – (s) Turkish language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • TUR – (s) Turkey (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • T.U.R.D. (acronym) Tactical Urban Response Department
  • TUSK – (a) Tank Urban Survival Kit
  • TUV – (s) Tuvalu (ISO 3166 trigram)

TV

  • TV (disambiguation)| – (i) Time value, a designation seen on some camera dials for shutter priority mode
  • TV
  • (i) Television
  • (s) Teravolt
  • (i) Transvestite
  • (s) Tuvalu (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
  • TVA – (i) Tennessee Valley Authority
  • TVG
  • (p/i) Television Games (Network)
  • (i) Tick, Very Good, Often used by School Teachers when marking homework etc. (Tick VG)
  • TVR – (i) TreVor (Wilkinson) Racing
  • TVS – (i) Tornado vortex signature

TW

  • 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) – 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

TY

  • ty
  • (s) Tahitian language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • (i) Thank you (Internet chat abbreviation)
  • TYT – wikt:take your time (Internet chat abbreviation)

TZ

  • TZ – (s) Tanzania (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
  • TZA – (s) Tanzania (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • TZC – (p) Tetrazolium chloride
  • TZS – (s) Tanzanian shilling (ISO 4217 currency code)

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