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5621 | track made good | See TRACK. |
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5622 | track plotter | A PLOTTER used to plot the track or course of a craft. |
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5623 | trade winds | Persistent WINDS, mainly in the lower ATMOSPHERE, which blow over vast regions from a subtropical ANTICYCLONE toward the equatorial regions... more |
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5624 | traffic lane | An area within defined limits in which one-way traffic is established. Natural obstacles, including those forming separation zones, may cons... more |
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5625 | traffic separation line | See SEPARATION ZONE |
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5626 | traffic separation zone | See SEPARATION ZONE |
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5627 | traffic separation scheme | A ROUTEING measure aimed at the separation of opposing streams of traffic by appropriate means and by the establishment of TRAFFIC LANES. |
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5628 | training wall | A wall, BANK, or JETTY, often submerged, built to direct or confine the FLOW of a RIVER or TIDAL CURRENT. |
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5629 | trajectory | The curved path of something hurtling through space. In METEOROLOGY, curve traced by the successive positions of a moving particle of air. ... more |
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5630 | transceiver | A combination transmitter and receiver in a single housing, with some components being used by both parts. See TRANSPONDER. |
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5631 | transducer | Any device for converting energy from one form to another (electrical, mechanical, or acoustic). |
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5632 | transducer: magnetostriction | A TRANSDUCER that depends for its operation on the interaction between the magnetization and the deformation of a material having magneto... more |
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5633 | transformation | In PHOTOGRAMMETRY, the process of projecting a PHOTOGRAPH (mathematically, graphically, or photographically) from its plane onto another pl... more |
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5634 | transforming printer | A specially designed projection printer of fixed geometry used for transforming the oblique components of a coupled camera installation, a M... more |
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5635 | transhipment or lightening area | An area designated for transfer of cargo from one vessel to another sometimes in order to reduce a vessel’s DRAUGHT. Also called cargo trans... more |
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5636 | transient magnetism | See MAGNETISM: TEMPORARY. |
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5637 | transient thermocline | See THERMOCLINE. |
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5638 | transit | In ASTRONOMY, the apparent passage of a STAR or other CELESTIAL BODY across a defined line of the CELESTIAL SPHERE, as a MERIDIAN, PRIME VER... more |
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5639 | transit: broken telescope | A precise astronomic TRANSIT or THEODOLITE in which the light passing through the OBJECTIVE LENS is reflected through a right angle by a pri... more |
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5640 | transit: local | The apparent passage of a CELESTIAL BODY across the MERIDIAN of the observer. See also MERIDIAN TRANSIT. |