turnaround
Preparations for takeoff, such as loading and servicing.
Entries starting with T
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turned on
adjectiveIndustrial electronics
That has been switched on or placed in the on position.
turning center
Any of a class of machine tools with computerized control and actuation (usually and especially of the CNC type) whose primary action is turning and boring as opposed to milling: archetypally, a computerized lathe or screw machine (as opposed to a computerized milling machine).
turning circle
nounAutomotive
The circular path formed by the wheel furthest from the centre of the turn when turning to the maximum extent.
turning point
A place at which one changes their direction of travel.
turning tool
nounMachining
A cutting tool for turning (cutting external diameters and faces) as opposed to boring (cutting internal diameters and faces); especially, a single-point cutting tool fur such purpose.
turnout
nounRail equipment
A place where moveable rails allow a train to switch tracks; a set of points.
turnplough
A type of plough that is designed to turn over the soil, often by the use of a mouldboard.
turnsheet
A metal plate set down as a surface for the purpose of turning minecarts around.
turntable
nounRail equipment
A rotating platform placed in a circular pit, used for turning locomotives, cars, or trucks.
turnwrest
A cumbersome kind of plough formerly used in England, especially in Kent.
turret
nounRail equipment
The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.
turtle
The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.
turtle-press
A type of printing press in which a turtle (a curved plate) was used.
tusk
nounCarpentry
A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.
tusking
nounCarpentry
A tusk (projecting member).
tut-work
Work done by the piece, as in non-metalliferous rock, the amount done being usually reckoned by the fathom.
Tutania
nounMetallurgy
An alloy of copper, antimony, zinc and tin patented in 1770 by William Tutin, whose firm used it in commercial production of housewares.
TWB
Initialism of three-wire bus.
tweeter
An electronic speaker designed to produce high-frequency sound.
twelvemo
a page, book etc. of that size
twenty-fours
A form of composed type or plates containing 24 leaves or 48 pages, properly arranged for printing and folding.
twibill
nounCarpentry
A two-edged tool used in gate-type hurdle-making for cutting out mortises, with a flat chisel and a mortise chisel or hook, similar to the much larger French carpenter's tool, the besaiguë (or bisaiguë).
twill
nounManufacturing
A pattern, characterised by diagonal ridges, created by the regular interlacing of threads of the warp and weft during weaving.
twincharger
nounAutomotive
A combination of a supercharger and a turbocharger.
twingle
nounAutomotive
A four-stroke twin-cylinder engine with an altered firing order designed to give power pulses similar to a single-cylinder four-stroke engine.
twinning
The conversion of a road into a dual carriageway.
twinset
nounRail equipment
A pair of cars or locomotives that are permanently coupled and treated as a single unit.
twit
Clipping of twitter (“a knot or other defect in a thread or yarn which hinders spinning or weaving”).
twitch
The sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore.
A knot or other defect in a thread or yarn which hinders spinning or weaving; a twit.
two-line
adjectiveIndustrial printing
Having a depth of body equal to double that of the size specified.
two-line brevier
A size of type between English and great primer, standardized as 16-point.
two-line double pica
The size of type between two-line great primer and canon, standardized as 44-point.
two-line English
The size of type between two-line pica and two-line great primer, standardized as 28-point.
two-line great primer
The size of type between two-line English and two-line double pica, standardized as 36-point.
two-line pica
A large size of type, standardized as 24-point.
two-second rule
A rule of thumb for safe driving by which a driver must maintain a two-second distance from the vehicle in front.
two-stroke
adjectiveMechanical engineering
Of or relating to a design of internal combustion engine, the working cycle of which is completed during two strokes of the piston.
two-way
adjectiveTransport and logistics
Of a highway, allowing traffic in two directions.
two-way switch
A plain type of light switch that can control lights, or other electrical loads, from a single location; a single-throw switch.
TX
Abbreviation of transmitter.
tying
The act or process of washing ores in a buddle.
tympan
A piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed.
tympaning
The material used for tympans, or padding under the platen of a letterpress.
type
A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
type area
The useful area of a page of printed material without the margins.
type bar
A line of type cast in one piece, as in a linotype or typograph.
type-high
adjectiveIndustrial printing
Of the standard height of a line of type.
typecase
A case containing the printer's type characters.
typecutter
A person who cuts the die used in traditional printing.
typeface
The surface of type which inked, or the impression it makes.
typeform
The part of a printing press which holds the type, and against which the platen is pressed.
typograph
A machine for setting type or for casting lines of type and setting them.
typometer
A ruler traditionally used in the graphic arts to inspect the measures of typographic materials.
typometry
Printing maps or drawings with moveable type.