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Transparent wood

Transparent wood (TW) is a bio-based composite in which lignin is removed from wood and pores are filled with a polymer, transmitting light while keeping the wood's strength.

Transpedicular fixation

Transpedicular fixation is a spinal instrumentation technique in which screws passed through the pedicles into the vertebral bodies are connected by rods to stabilize spinal segments, usually alongside fusion.

Transperineal biopsy

Transperineal biopsy, also called transperineal prostate biopsy, is a prostate biopsy technique in which the needle enters through the perineum, avoiding rectal bacteria and reducing sepsis risk.

Transpersonal psychology

Transpersonal psychology, founded by Abraham Maslow and Anthony Sutich with the 1969 Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, is a humanistic-psychology branch studying higher states of consciousness, self-transcendence, and spiritual experience; its organizations, themes, quantitative assessment limits, and scientism-versus-romanticism criticism distinguish it.

Transphobia

Transphobia: prejudice, hatred, or fear of transgender people (ECRI definition), spanning interpersonal misgendering, violence, and structural laws. Measured via GMSR and Everyday Discrimination Scale; 187 studies link it to poor mental health and substance use.

Transphorm

Transphorm, Inc. was an American semiconductor company founded in 2007 in Goleta, California, that made gallium nitride power devices for fast chargers and electric vehicles until Renesas acquired it in 2024.

Transpiration

Transpiration: movement of water vapor from soil through plants out of leaf stomata; dominant terrestrial water flux, over 60% of evapotranspiration, driven by cohesion-tension, studied since Stephen Hales (1727).

Transpiration cooling

Transpiration cooling, also called sweat cooling, is a thermal protection technique in which coolant forced through a porous wall cools it and forms a protective film.

Transpired solar collector

A transpired solar collector is a solar air-heating device in which a dark, perforated metal sheet mounted on a building wall preheats ventilation air, patented as SolarWall in the late 1980s.

Transplant (TV series)

Transplant is a Canadian medical drama created by Joseph Kay, starring Hamza Haq as Syrian refugee doctor Bashir Hamed redoing his residency at Toronto's fictional York Memorial Hospital. Aired on CTV from 2020 and NBC, four seasons, 43 episodes, 15 Canadian Screen Awards.

Transplant experiment

A reciprocal transplant experiment moves ecotypes among home and away habitats and is the gold standard for detecting local adaptation, separating genetic, environmental, and interaction effects on fitness.

Transplant rejection

Transplant rejection is the recipient immune system's attack on grafted tissue, spanning hyperacute, acute cellular, antibody-mediated, and chronic forms; diagnosed by biopsy under the Banff classification, it affects 10-15% of kidney recipients in year one and causes about half of kidney allograft losses.

Transplantation

Transplantation is the medical transfer of cells, tissues, or organs within a body or from donor to recipient; the first successful organ transplant was a kidney, in Boston in 1954.

Transplantation Conditioning

Transplantation conditioning (preparative regimen, conditioning regimen) is chemotherapy, radiation, or antibody treatment before hematopoietic stem cell transplant; it clears marrow, suppresses immunity, and kills tumor, in myeloablative, reduced-intensity, or non-myeloablative forms.

Transplants (band)

Transplants: American punk rock band formed 1999 in Los Angeles by Tim Armstrong (Rancid), Rob Aston, and Travis Barker (blink-182); albums Transplants (2002), Haunted Cities (2005), In a Warzone (2013); punk-hip-hop-reggae mix.

Transplastomic plant

Transplastomic plants carry foreign genes in the chloroplast (plastid) genome rather than the nucleus. First achieved in tobacco (1990), they use homologous recombination, biolistic delivery, and aadA/spectinomycin selection for very high transgene expression and maternal transgene containment.

Transponder

A transponder is a receiver-transmitter combination that receives a signal at one frequency and retransmits it at another, relaying traffic between satellite ground stations and controlling spacecraft.

Transponder (aeronautics)

An aircraft transponder is a radio receiver-transmitter that automatically replies to secondary surveillance radar interrogations, returning identity, pressure altitude, and, in Mode S, a unique 24-bit address.

Transporeon

Transporeon is a German cloud-based transportation management platform founded in Ulm in 2000 by four students, connecting shippers with carriers; Trimble acquired it for €1.88 billion in 2023.

Transport

Transport is the movement of people and goods from one location to another by vehicles and infrastructure; the sector employs around 200 million people worldwide.

Transport Accident Investigation Commission

The Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC) is New Zealand's independent Crown entity investigating aviation, maritime, and rail accidents to determine causes and prevent recurrence, not to assign blame.

Transport Act 1947

The Transport Act 1947 was a United Kingdom law that nationalised most inland transport, placing railways, canals, ports, and road haulage under the British Transport Commission from 1948.

Transport Act 1962

The Transport Act 1962 is a UK Act that abolished the British Transport Commission, splitting its functions among new bodies including the British Railways Board and British Waterways Board.

Transport Agency (Sweden)

The Swedish Transport Agency (Transportstyrelsen) is the Swedish government agency responsible for regulations, permits and supervision in rail, aviation, shipping and road transport, established in 2009.

Transport and General Workers' Union

The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) was a British trade union created in 1922 from fourteen unions and, at about 320,000 members, then Britain's largest.

Transport Canada

Transport Canada, also called the Canadian Department of Transport, is the federal department responsible for Canada's transportation policies, created in 1936; it regulates civil aviation safety and pilot licensing.

Transport Canada aerodrome identifiers

Transport Canada aerodrome identifiers are four-character Canadian aviation location codes, such as CYVR for Vancouver, assigned by NAV CANADA in two formats, both beginning with the letter C.

Transport economics

Transport economics is the branch of economics that studies travel demand, transport pricing, infrastructure investment, and transport markets, marked by non-storable output and large external costs.

Transport Fever 3

Transport Fever 3 is a transport tycoon simulation by Urban Games, published by Paradox Interactive, released September 29, 2026 on PC, Mac, Linux, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, with 300+ vehicles, cargo deadlines, and cross-platform mods.

Transport for London

Transport for London (TfL), created 3 July 2000 under the GLA Act 1999, is London's integrated transport authority, running the Underground, buses, Elizabeth line, DLR, trams and red-route roads, funded mostly by fares.