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TC, T.C., Tc, Tc, tc, tC, or .tc may refer to:

Medicine and biology

  • Testicular Cancer
    Testicular cancer
    Testicular cancer is cancer that develops in the testicles, a part of the male reproductive system.In the United States, between 7,500 and 8,000 diagnoses of testicular cancer are made each year. In the UK, approximately 2,000 men are diagnosed each year. Over his lifetime, a man's risk of...

  • Therapeutic Community
    Therapeutic community
    Therapeutic community is a term applied to a participative, group-based approach to long-term mental illness, personality disorders and drug addiction...

    , a treatment program for addictions, personality disorder or other mental problems
  • Total Cholesterol
    Cholesterol
    Cholesterol is a complex isoprenoid. Specifically, it is a waxy steroid of fat that is produced in the liver or intestines. It is used to produce hormones and cell membranes and is transported in the blood plasma of all mammals. It is an essential structural component of mammalian cell membranes...

  • Cytotoxic T-cells
  • Tissue culture
    Tissue culture
    Tissue culture is the growth of tissues or cells separate from the organism. This is typically facilitated via use of a liquid, semi-solid, or solid growth medium, such as broth or agar...


Chemistry and physics

  • Technetium
    Technetium
    Technetium is the chemical element with atomic number 43 and symbol Tc. It is the lowest atomic number element without any stable isotopes; every form of it is radioactive. Nearly all technetium is produced synthetically and only minute amounts are found in nature...

     (symbol Tc), a chemical element
  • Temperature coefficient
    Temperature coefficient
    The temperature coefficient is the relative change of a physical property when the temperature is changed by 1 K.In the following formula, let R be the physical property to be measured and T be the temperature at which the property is measured. T0 is the reference temperature, and ΔT is the...

  • Teracoulomb, an SI unit for electric charge equal to 1012 coulombs
  • Tesla coil
    Tesla coil
    A Tesla coil is a type of resonant transformer circuit invented by Nikola Tesla around 1891. It is used to produce high voltage, low current, high frequency alternating current electricity. Tesla coils produce higher current than the other source of high voltage discharges, electrostatic machines...

    , a category of high-voltage discharge coils
  • Thermocouple
    Thermocouple
    A thermocouple is a device consisting of two different conductors that produce a voltage proportional to a temperature difference between either end of the pair of conductors. Thermocouples are a widely used type of temperature sensor for measurement and control and can also be used to convert a...

    , a widely used type of temperature sensor
  • "To contain", on laboratory glassware
    Laboratory glassware
    Laboratory glassware refers to a variety of equipment, traditionally made of glass, used for scientific experiments and other work in science, especially in chemistry and biology laboratories...

  • Tonnes of Carbon
    Carbon
    Carbon is the chemical element with symbol C and atomic number 6. As a member of group 14 on the periodic table, it is nonmetallic and tetravalent—making four electrons available to form covalent chemical bonds...

     (tC)
  • Temperature cycling
    Temperature cycling
    Temperature cycling is the process of cycling through two temperature extremes, typically at relatively high rates of change. It is an environmental stress test used in evaluating product reliability as well as in manufacturing to catch early-term, latent defects by inducing failure through...

    , a reliability test


Tc may refer to:
  • Critical temperature
  • Convective temperature
    Convective temperature
    The convective temperature is the approximate temperature that air near the surface must reach for cloud formation without mechanical lift. In such case, cloud base begins at the convective condensation level , whilst with mechanical lifting, condensation begins at the lifted condensation level...

  • Curie temperature

Organizations

  • TopCoder
    TopCoder
    TopCoder is a company which administers contests in computer programming. TopCoder hosts fortnightly online algorithm competitions — known as SRMs or "single round matches" — as well as weekly competitions in design and development. The work in design and development produces useful software...

    , a company which administers contests in computer programming
  • TC Music
    TC Music
    TC Music is a New York based independent record label and artist management company. They are formerly the home of Radio Disney popstar Katelyn Tarver and now work with Songwriters Hall Of Fame/Abe Olman Award Winning singer/songwriter Dan Ferrari, club/dance artist Luvndreams and former "Making...

    , an independent record label in New York
  • TC Electronic
    TC Electronic
    TC Electronic is a Danish audio equipment manufacturer.Its current product ranges include guitar effects, bass amplification, computer audio interfaces, audio plug-in software, live sound equalisers, studio and post production equipment, studio effect processors and broadcast loudness processors...

    , a Danish manufacturer of fine studio equipment and guitar effects
  • Transport Canada
    Transport Canada
    Transport Canada is the department within the government of Canada which is responsible for developing regulations, policies and services of transportation in Canada. It is part of the Transportation, Infrastructure and Communities portfolio...

    , a Canadian federal government department
  • Teachers College, Columbia University
    Teachers College, Columbia University
    Teachers College, Columbia University is a graduate school of education located in New York City, New York...

    , a graduate school of education in New York City
  • Telecom Cambodia
    Telecom Cambodia
    Telecom Cambodia is a state corporation of Cambodia, and is the principal telecom company of that country. The company was launched in 2006 as part of the Royal Government's Second Mandate, by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, which up until then had operated the country's telecom...

    , a telecom company in Cambodia
  • Tierra Comunera
    Tierra Comunera
    Tierra Comunera is a nationalist political party in the Spanish historical region of Castile. It is modelled after the Basque and Catalan nationalist parties but does not advocate full independence for Castile, instead favoring cooperation or unification among what they call the five Castilian...

    , a Spanish political party
  • Taco Cabana
    Taco Cabana
    Taco Cabana is a U.S.-based fast food restaurant chain specializing in Tex-Mex cuisine and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Carrols Restaurant Group. Taco Cabana is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas...

    , a fast food Mexican restaurant
  • The Committee (improv group)
    The Committee (improv group)
    The Committee is a San Francisco based improvisational comedy group founded by Alan Myerson and Jessica Myerson . The Myersons were both alums of The Second City in Chicago. The Committee opened April 10, 1963 at 622 Broadway in a 300 seat Cabaret theater that used to be an indoor bocce ball court...

    , a San Francisco based improvisational comedy group

Science, mathematics and technology

  • Thread count, a term used in the textiles technology
  • Tele-conference, see video conference
  • Tropical cyclone
    Tropical cyclone
    A tropical cyclone is a storm system characterized by a large low-pressure center and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and heavy rain. Tropical cyclones strengthen when water evaporated from the ocean is released as the saturated air rises, resulting in condensation of water vapor...

    , also known as a hurricane, tropical storm, tropical depression, typhoon, etc.
  • TC (complexity)
    TC (complexity)
    In theoretical computer science, and specifically computational complexity theory and circuit complexity, TC is a complexity class, and TCi is a hierarchy of complexity classes. Each class TCi consists of the languages recognized by Boolean circuits with depth O and a polynomial number of...

    , a complexity class

Computers

  • tc (command)
    Tc (Linux)
    The tc command, also called traffic control command, is a Linux command to show and manipulate traffic control settings.-External links:* * *...

    , a command-line utility used to configure network traffic control in the Linux kernel
  • .tc
    .tc
    .tc is the Internet country code top-level domain for Turks and Caicos Islands..tc has been used as a domain hack for Teen Challenge Manitoba..tc is a popular domain hack for Turkiye Cumhuriyeti . .tc...

    , the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Turks and Caicos Islands
  • Telecine (copying), a form of digital transfer using a Telecine machine
  • TrueCrypt
    TrueCrypt
    TrueCrypt is a software application used for on-the-fly encryption . It is free and open source. It can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file or encrypt a partition or the entire storage device .- Operating systems :TrueCrypt supports Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and...

    , a disk encryption software
  • Trusted Computing
    Trusted Computing
    Trusted Computing is a technology developed and promoted by the Trusted Computing Group. The term is taken from the field of trusted systems and has a specialized meaning. With Trusted Computing, the computer will consistently behave in expected ways, and those behaviors will be enforced by...

    , a scheme for adding additional controls on what computers may or may not do into hardware or software
  • Turbo C
    Turbo C
    Turbo C is an Integrated Development Environment and compiler for the C programming language from Borland. First introduced in 1987, it was noted for its integrated development environment, small size, extremely fast compile speed, comprehensive manuals and low price.In May 1990, Borland replaced...

    , a software development program by Borland
  • Test Case
    Test case
    A test case in software engineering is a set of conditions or variables under which a tester will determine whether an application or software system is working correctly or not. The mechanism for determining whether a software program or system has passed or failed such a test is known as a test...

    , a concept in software engineering
  • TRON Code
    TRON (encoding)
    TRON Code is a multi-byte character encoding used in the TRON Project. It is similar to Unicode but does not use Unicode's Han unification process: each character from each CJK character set is encoded separately, including archaic and historical equivalents of modern characters...

    , a multi-byte character encoding used in the TRON Project
    TRON Project
    TRON is an open real-time operating system kernel design, and is an acronym for "The Real-time Operating system Nucleus". The project was started by Prof. Dr. Ken Sakamura of the University of Tokyo in 1984...

  • Thin client
    Thin client
    A thin client is a computer or a computer program which depends heavily on some other computer to fulfill its traditional computational roles. This stands in contrast to the traditional fat client, a computer designed to take on these roles by itself...

    , a computer or computer program that is heavily dependent on another computer (server) to operate

Video games

  • Total conversion, a game modification that completely changes the game's content
  • X3: Terran Conflict, a PC game
  • TV Champion (video game)
    TV Champion (video game)
    TV Champion is a Japanese Super Game Boy video game that takes place in a TV Tokyo game show. The entire game is in Japanese. Literacy is required to understand the rules and to properly play the game.-Gameplay:...

    , a Japanese Super Game Boy video game
  • T.C., an era designation in the Xenosaga
    Xenosaga
    is a series of science fiction video games developed by Monolith Soft and published by Namco Bandai. Xenosaga's main story is in the form of a trilogy of PlayStation 2 video games. There have been three spin-off games and an anime adaptation. The Xenosaga series serves as a spiritual successor to...

     game series
  • Torn (online game), previously called Torn City

Television, film, and music

  • T.C. as per Theodore Calvin, a character from Magnum, P.I., played by actor Roger E. Mosley
  • TC Smith
    TC Smith
    TC Smith is an American singer best known for her work with TCR and her voiceover work with producer Joseph Bishara. Her voice talents have been featured in movie trailers for films such The Village, The Amityville Horror , and Silent Hill...

    , an American singer, for TCR
  • Tevin Campbell
    Tevin Campbell
    Tevin Jermod Campbell is an American R&B singer-songwriter and actor. He scored a string of R&B chart hits as a teenager in the early to mid-1990s.-Music career:...

    , a musician
  • TC (Artist)
    TC (Artist)
    TC is the stage name of drum and bass producer and Bristol DJ Tom Casswell. He left school and started making music inspired by the sounds of the Bristol scene and the music and atmosphere of St. Paul's, the area of Bristol where he grew up.His debut album, Evolution, was released in 2007 on...

    , a British drum and bass producer and DJ
  • Tom Constanten
    Tom Constanten
    Tom Constanten is an American keyboardist, best known for playing with the Grateful Dead from 1968 to 1970.-Biography:...

    , an American musician from the Grateful Dead
  • Tom Cruise
    Tom Cruise
    Thomas Cruise Mapother IV , better known as Tom Cruise, is an American film actor and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and he has won three Golden Globe Awards....

    , an American actor
  • Tom Caron
    Tom Caron
    Tom Caron is a sportscaster and anchor on New England's NESN network.-Background:Caron is a graduate of Lewiston High School in Maine and Saint Michael's College in Vermont, where he majored in journalism....

    , a television host for New England Sports Network
  • Top Cat
    Top Cat
    Top Cat is a Hanna-Barbera prime time animated television series which ran from September 27, 1961 to April 18, 1962 for a run of 30 episodes on the ABC network. Reruns are played on Cartoon Network's classic animation network Boomerang.-History:...

    , a cartoon character
  • Top Combine
    Top Combine
    Top Combine is a Mandopop boy band. The group consists of the members Bird Zhang, Caesar Li, Mars Ma, Kenny Liu, and Tanas Kim. All were professionally trained in singing, dancing, modeling, and language. With the exception of Kim, the other four members of Top Combine were all 2007 contestants...

    , a Mandopop boy band
  • The Committee (film)
    The Committee (film)
    The Committee is a 1968 British independent Black-and-white film noir film. It featured original music by Pink Floyd as well as Arthur Brown's song Nightmare.-Synopsis:...

    , a 1968 independent film directed by Peter Sykes
  • TC (musician)
  • BBC Television Centre
    BBC Television Centre
    BBC Television Centre at White City in West London is the headquarters of BBC Television. Officially opened on 29 June 1960, it remains one of the largest to this day; having featured over the years as backdrop to many BBC programmes, it is one of the most readily recognisable such facilities...

    , a company whose name is abbreviated to TC, and whose studios are numbered TC0-TC12
  • ThunderCats
    ThunderCats
    ThunderCats is an American animated television series that was produced by Rankin/Bass Productions debuting in 1984, based on the characters created by Tobin "Ted" Wolf. The series follows the adventures of a group of cat-like humanoid aliens...

    , a cartoon show

Motion picture, video, and audio production

  • Telecine
    Telecine
    Telecine is transferring motion picture film into video and is performed in a color suite. The term is also used to refer to the equipment used in the post-production process....

    , a motion picture film transfer process identifier (usually abbreviated TK instead to avoid confusion with time code)
  • Telecine (piracy)
    Telecine (piracy)
    The term telecine refers both to a film-to-tape transferring machine, as well as the process by which film is transferred to tape...

    , a movie piracy method
  • Teleconverter
    Teleconverter
    A teleconverter is a secondary lens which is mounted between the camera and a photographic lens. Its job is to enlarge the central part of an image obtained by the objective lens...

    , the secondary lens mounted on SLRs between the camera and the photographic lens
  • Time code
    Time code
    A timecode is a sequence of numeric codes generated at regular intervals by a timing system.- Video and film timecode :...

    , a term used in video and audio production

Places

  • The Republic of Turkey
    Turkey
    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

    , from the Turkish name, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti
  • Traverse City, Michigan
    Traverse City, Michigan
    Traverse City is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Grand Traverse County, although a small portion extends into Leelanau County. It is the largest city in the 21-county Northern Michigan region. The population was 14,674 at the 2010 census, with 143,372 in the Traverse...

    , the self-proclaimed "Cherry Capital of the World"
  • Turks and Caicos Islands
    Turks and Caicos Islands
    The Turks and Caicos Islands are a British Overseas Territory and overseas territory of the European Union consisting of two groups of tropical islands in the Caribbean, the larger Caicos Islands and the smaller Turks Islands, known for tourism and as an offshore financial centre.The Turks and...

    , ISO 3166-1 country code
  • Twin cities
    Twin cities
    Twin cities are a special case of two cities or urban centres which are founded in close geographic proximity and then grow into each other over time...

    , often specifically the Minneapolis-St. Paul region
  • The Colony, Texas
    The Colony, Texas
    The city is bordered on the west by Lewisville Lake and Lewisville, Texas, on the north and east by Frisco, Texas and on the south by Carrollton, Texas and Plano, Texas...

    , a city in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Transportation

  • Air Tanzania
    Air Tanzania
    Air Tanzania is the national airline of Tanzania. Its main base is Julius Nyerere International Airport, Dar es Salaam.-History:Air Tanzania Corporation was established on 10 March 1977 after the breakup of East African Airways, which had previously served the region. Flights were started from...

     IATA code
  • TC, a Mazda piston engine
  • Chrysler TC by Maserati
    Chrysler TC by Maserati
    The Chrysler TC by Maserati was a "Q" body based on a Chrysler K platform grand tourer jointly developed by Chrysler and Maserati and introduced at the 1986 Los Angeles Auto Show...

    , an automobile sold by Chrysler from 1989-1991
  • Twincam, an alternative term for an overhead camshaft (OHC) engine
  • Scion tC
    Scion tC
    The Scion tC is an automobile manufactured and sold by Scion, a division of Toyota. Introduced in the United States in June 2004 and Canada in 2010. The name tC does not fit in with its stablemates the xA, xB, and xD, because the name XC designation has already been used by Volvo for its lineup of...

    , a touring coupe made by Scion that's based on the Toyota Avensis
  • Traffic collision, an automobile accident
  • Traction control system
    Traction control system
    A traction control system , also known as anti-slip regulation , is typically a secondary function of the anti-lock braking system on production motor vehicles, designed to prevent loss of traction of driven road wheels...

    , an anti-slip automobile subsystem
  • Turn coordinator
    Turn coordinator
    The turn coordinator is a flight instrument which displays to a pilot information about the rate of yaw , roll, and the coordination of the turn...

    , an aircraft instrument
  • True Course, an angle for True north in Course (navigation)
    Course (navigation)
    In navigation, a vehicle's course is the angle that the intended path of the vehicle makes with a fixed reference object . Typically course is measured in degrees from 0° clockwise to 360° in compass convention . Course is customarily expressed in three digits, using preliminary zeros if needed,...


Sports

  • Turismo Carretera
    Turismo Carretera
    Turismo Carretera is a popular touring car racing series in Argentina, and the oldest car racing series still active in the world....

    , a popular stock car category in Argentina
  • TC 2000
    TC 2000
    The TC 2000 Championship is a touring car racing series held in Argentina since 1979. It's considered the most advanced racing car series in South America and one of the top 10 touring car series in the world.-Rules:...

    , a series of races for touring cars which is held each year in Argentina
  • TC (mascot), the mascot for the Minnesota Twins baseball team
  • Total chances
    Total chances
    In baseball statistics, total chances , also called chances offered, represents the number of plays in which a defensive player has participated. It is calculated as follows: Total Chances = assists + putouts + errors. Chances accepted refers to the total of putouts and assists only. Fielding...

    , a baseball fielding term
  • TC Panther
    TC Panther
    TC Panther is the Mascot for the University of Northern Iowa and the Northern Iowa Panthers athletic teams.TC is the award winning mascot for the University of Northern Iowa, located in Cedar Falls, Iowa.- TC Profile :Who...

    , the mascot for the University of Northern Iowa Panthers

People

  • TC Luoma
    TC Luoma
    Terrence Christian "TC" Luoma is the Editor-in-Chief of the online bodybuilding resource Testosterone Magazine , and of the printed magazine of the same name...

    , an American magazine editor
  • Truman Capote
    Truman Capote
    Truman Streckfus Persons , known as Truman Capote , was an American author, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's and the true crime novel In Cold Blood , which he labeled a "nonfiction novel." At...

    , an American writer
  • Tim Connolly
    Tim Connolly
    Tim Connolly is an American professional ice hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League.-Playing career:...

    , an American professional ice hockey player
  • Ty Conklin
    Ty Conklin
    Ty Curtis Conklin is an American professional ice hockey goaltender currently with the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League....

    , an NHL goaltender
  • Tony Currie
    Tony Currie
    Anthony William Currie commonly known as Tony Currie is an English former footballer who had significant spells for Sheffield United, Leeds United and Queens Park Rangers as well as representing England....

    , an English footballer

Business

  • Terms & conditions, a term used in negotiations and contracts
  • Total cost
    Total cost
    In economics, and cost accounting, total cost describes the total economic cost of production and is made up of variable costs, which vary according to the quantity of a good produced and include inputs such as labor and raw materials, plus fixed costs, which are independent of the quantity of a...

    , an economics and cost accounting term

Other uses

  • Total Communication
    Total Communication
    Total Communication is an approach to deaf education that aims to make use of a number of modes of communication such as signed, oral, auditory, written and visual aids, depending on the particular needs and abilities of the child.-History:...

    , a form of Sign Language
  • Trinity Cross
    Trinity Cross
    The Trinity Cross was the highest of the National Awards of Trinidad and Tobago, between the years 1969– 2008. It was awarded for: distinguished and outstanding service to Trinidad and Tobago...

    , the highest national award in Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tinychat
    Tinychat
    Tinychat is an internet chat service that allows users to communicate via instant messaging, voice and video chat. It offers thousands of chat rooms and the ability for users to create their own virtual chat room on any topic or category. Tinychat is a web based system that works on Linux, Windows...

    , a site used for web-chatting
  • Tom Collins
    Tom Collins
    The Tom Collins is a type of Collins cocktail made from gin, lemon juice, sugar and carbonated water. First memorialized in writing in 1876 by "the father of American mixology" Jerry Thomas, this "Gin and Sparkling Lemonade" drink typically is served in a Collins glass over ice.-History:In 1874,...

    , a cocktail made from gin
  • TjitChat, a site which combines a message board with a wiki
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