(Main list of acronyms)
__NOTOC__ 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: 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 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