Glossary - T

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• TOEFL — Test of English as a Foreign Language
• Torrent — usually refers to a file downloadable via the BitTorrent client or other peer-to-peer file sharing clients implementing BitTorrent's peer-to-peer protocol.
• TOT — Toys of Tomorrow (old)
• Touchstone — A web authentication system.
• TPP — Technology and Policy (Ph.D.) program
• TR — Technology Review
• Transceiver — A piece of networking hardware usually used to moderate interfaces.
• TRB — Technology Review Board - sub team of ITAG (thru 2007)
• TREX — Traveling Research Environmental Experiences
• Trojan — A program that appears desirable to encourage downloading and/or running the program, but actually contains something undesirable, often in addition to the desirable program.
• TSCA — Toxic Substances Control Act
• TTT — Things That Think
• TWAS — Third World Academy of Sciences
• TWO — Technology Wives Organization (old)
• Type — Data Warehouse term: Refers to how tables are used in constructing queries.