List of acronyms: T
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)
Some terms are spoken as either acronym or initialism, e.g., VoIP, pronounced both as voyp and V-O-I-P.
TA
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
- 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
[edit]- 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 –
TG
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
- 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
- TLI
- TLM
- TLS
- (s) Timor-Leste (ISO 3166 trigram)
- (i) Times Literary Supplement
TM
[edit]- Tm
- 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) 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
[edit]- 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, a former name of the professional wrestling promotion now known as Impact Wrestling
- 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
[edit]- to – (s) Tongan language (ISO 639-1 code)
- T/O – (i) Theatre of Operations
- TO
- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- TQ – (i) Top Qualifier (similar to Pole Position in car racing)
TR
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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)
- TUSK – (a) Tank Urban Survival Kit
- TUV – (s) Tuvalu (ISO 3166 trigram)
TV
[edit]- Tv – (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)[4][5]
- TVR – (i) TreVor (Wilkinson) Racing
- TVS – (i) Tornado vortex signature
TW
[edit]- 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
[edit]- TX – (s) Texas (postal symbol) – Transmit – Turkmenistan (FIPS 10-4 country code)
- TXV – Thermostatic Expansion Valve
TY
[edit]- ty
- (s) Tahitian language (ISO 639-1 code)
- (i) Thank you (Internet chat abbreviation)
- TYT – wikt:take your time (Internet chat abbreviation)
TZ
[edit]- 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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