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Trunked radio system

A trunked radio system is a two-way radio system in which a control channel automatically assigns voice frequencies to shared talkgroups, introduced in the US in 1974.

Trunkline Gas Pipeline

Trunkline Gas Pipeline is an interstate natural gas pipeline built by Panhandle Eastern and placed in service in 1951, running about 1,400 miles from the Gulf Coast to Michigan.

Trunks (トランクス) (Dragon Ball)

Trunks (トランクス), also called Future Trunks, is a Dragon Ball character, son of Vegeta and Bulma, a sword-wielding Super Saiyan from a ruined future who kills Frieza, warns of the androids, and later stars in Dragon Ball Super's Goku Black arc.

Trường Chinh

Trường Chinh, born Đặng Xuân Khu, was a Vietnamese communist leader who thrice led the Communist Party of Vietnam and served as head of state from 1981 to 1987.

Truong Dinh

Truong Dinh (Trương Định, 1820–1864) was a Vietnamese military commander and guerrilla leader who resisted the French conquest of southern Vietnam from 1859, refusing to disarm after the Nguyen court made peace in 1862.

Truong Gia Binh

Truong Gia Binh (Trương Gia Bình, born 1956) is a Vietnamese mathematician-turned-businessman who co-founded FPT Corporation in 1988 and chairs it, Vietnam's leading technology conglomerate.

Truong Han Sieu

Truong Han Sieu (Trương Hán Siêu) was a scholar-official of Dai Viet who served four Tran kings, fought the Mongol-Yuan invasions, and wrote the rhapsody Bach Dang giang phu.

Trương Mỹ Lan

Trương Mỹ Lan (张美兰) — Vietnamese real estate tycoon, chairwoman of Van Thinh Phat, secretly controlled SCB and embezzled $12.5 billion, Vietnam's largest fraud; sentenced to death April 2024.

Truong Vinh Ky

Truong Vinh Ky (Trương Vĩnh Ký), known in French as Petrus Ky, was a Vietnamese Catholic scholar, linguist, and journalist, editor-in-chief of Gia Định Báo from 1869.

Truphena Muthoni

Truphena Muthoni (born 2003) is a Kenyan environmentalist, founder of Hug the Earth, and Guinness World Record holder for the longest tree-hugging marathon: 72 hours in Nyeri, December 8-11, 2025, beating her own 48-hour record.

Truro

Truro (Cornish Truru) is Cornwall's only city and its administrative centre, at the head of the Fal Estuary. Chartered about 1175, a stannary town, cathedral city since 1876-1910, population 19,395 (2021).

Truss

A truss is a structure of individual members, each in tension or compression, connected at joints in triangular patterns that give rigidity with little material, most prominently in bridges.

Truss bridge

A truss bridge is a bridge whose load-carrying superstructure is a truss, a triangular framework whose members carry axial tension or compression, making efficient use of timber, iron, or steel.

Truss bridges in the United States

Truss bridges in the United States are metal bridges whose loads are carried by tension and compression frameworks; about 7,300 survive, mostly built between 1900 and 1930.

Truss mini-budget

The Truss mini-budget was a September 2022 UK fiscal statement announcing £45 billion of unfunded tax cuts that triggered a market crisis and Truss's resignation.

Truss model

A truss model is a structural analysis idealization that represents a structure as triangulated straight members with pinned joints, so every member carries only axial tension or compression.

Trusses

Trusses (hernia trusses, hernia belts) are surgical appliances with a pad and spring or belt that hold a reduced inguinal hernia in place; used when surgery is deferred, with documented complications and weak trial evidence.

Trust

Trust most often means confidence in or dependence on a person or quality, and in law names a relationship where one person holds property for another's benefit.

Trust (2010 film)

Trust (2010) is an American drama directed by David Schwimmer, starring Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, and Liana Liberato, about a 14-year-old girl assaulted by an online predator; released April 1, 2011, R-rated, 106 minutes.

Trust (2025 film)

Trust (2025) is an American survival thriller directed by Carlson Young, written by Gigi Levangie, starring Sophie Turner as starlet Lauren Lane trapped in a remote cabin; Twisted Pictures produced, Republic Pictures distributed, and it grossed $368,313 worldwide.

Trust (law)

Trust (law): a fiduciary arrangement in which a settlor transfers assets to a trustee holding legal title for a beneficiary, originating in medieval English uses and recognized internationally under the 1985 Hague Trusts Convention.

Trust (social science)

Trust (social science), also called social or interpersonal trust, is the willingness to accept vulnerability based on positive expectations of others. Covers generalized versus particularized trust, measurement scales, and global trust trends.

Trust Fall (Lanterns)

"Trust Fall" is the second episode of HBO's Lanterns (2026), written by Vanessa Baden Kelly and Chris Mundy, directed by James Hawes. Set entirely in 2016, it introduces the Manhunters and Antaan, and ends with Hal Jordan visiting Sinestro in an intergalactic prison.

Trust game

The trust game, originally called the investment game, is a two-player experiment introduced in 1995 in which the amount sent measures trust and the proportion returned measures trustworthiness.

Trust in automation

Trust in automation is the attitude that an automated agent will help achieve a person's goals amid uncertainty, defined by John D. Lee and Katrina A. See in 2004.

Trust law in South Africa

Trust law in South Africa governs trusts, arrangements where a founder transfers property to trustees to administer for beneficiaries, under the Trust Property Control Act 57 of 1988.

Trust Me (2013 film)

Trust Me (2013) is Clark Gregg's dark comedy about child-actor agent Howard Holloway; premiered at Tribeca 2013, released by Starz in 2014, with Rockwell, Sharbino, Peet, and Macy.

Trust Me: The False Prophet

Trust Me: The False Prophet is a 2026 four-part Netflix true-crime docuseries directed by Rachel Dretzin about Christine Marie and Tolga Katas infiltrating Samuel Bateman's FLDS sect in Short Creek, Utah, and helping the FBI convict him.

Trust reception in civil-law systems

Trust reception in civil-law systems is how civil-law countries recognize the English trust, chiefly through the 1985 Hague Trusts Convention and domestic substitutes like the fiducie.

Trust region

The trust region method is an iterative optimization technique that minimizes a local quadratic model within a bounded ball, adjusting the radius by how well the model predicts.