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Turbulent kinetic energy
Turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) is the mean kinetic energy per unit mass of velocity fluctuations in a turbulent flow, central to ocean and atmospheric mixing models.
Turbulent Prandtl number
The turbulent Prandtl number (Pr_t) is a dimensionless ratio of eddy viscosity to eddy thermal diffusivity used in turbulence modeling, a property of the flow, not the fluid.
Turbulent transport
Turbulent transport is the cross-field movement of particles, heat, and momentum in a magnetized plasma driven by microinstabilities rather than collisions, and it dominates energy loss in tokamaks.
Turbulento
Turbulento is a 2006 German children's dexterity and memory board game by Heinz Meister, published by Selecta Spielzeug; 2-4 players age 4+, flipping wooden animal pieces with balls, Kinderspiel des Jahres 2007 recommendation list. Distinct from Sky Team: Turbulence.
Turceni power station
Turceni power station is a lignite-fired thermal power plant in Turceni, Romania, on the Jiu River; built between 1978 and 1987, it was Romania's largest plant.
Turck
Turck (Hans Turck GmbH & Co. KG) is a German family-owned manufacturer of industrial automation products, including sensors, RFID, and connectivity, headquartered in Mülheim an der Ruhr.
Turco-Egyptian conquest of Sudan
The Turco-Egyptian conquest of Sudan (الغزو التركي المصري للسودان) was the 1820–1821 annexation of Sudan to Egypt by Muhammad Ali Pasha, ending the Funj kingdom of Sennar.
Turco-Egyptian Sudan
Turco-Egyptian Sudan (الحكم التركي المصري في السودان), known in Sudanese history as the Turkiyya, was the administration established by Ottoman Egypt over most of present-day Sudan from 1821 to 1885.
Turcopole
Turcopole (turcopolos): light mounted archer troops in Byzantine armies from 1082 and Frankish crusader armies from 1109, later a major paid auxiliary arm of the Templars and Hospitallers, commanded by a Turcopolier.
Turda
Turda (Potaissa) is a city in Cluj County, Romania, on the Arieș River; Roman seat of Legio V Macedonica, first mentioned as Castrum Turda in 1075, and home of the Salina Turda salt mine, closed in 1932 and reopened in 1992 as a major tourist attraction.
Turdetani
The Turdetani were an Iron Age people of the lower Guadalquivir valley in southern Spain, whom Strabo called the most intelligent Iberians and heirs of the Tartessians.
Turdoides
Turdoides, babblers, a genus of cooperatively breeding Leiothrichidae passerines of Africa and southern Asia; several species moved to Argya; Arabian and pied babblers are key study species.
Turducken
Turducken: a deboned chicken stuffed inside a deboned duck inside a deboned turkey, also called a three-bird roast; associated with Louisiana Cajun cooking, Paul Prudhomme, Hebert's Specialty Meats, John Madden, and USDA 165 °F cooking guidance.
Turdus
Turdus is a genus of passerine birds containing the true thrushes, established by Linnaeus in 1758 and including the Common Blackbird, American Robin, and Clay-colored Thrush.
Turedonnum
Turedonnum (also Urdonno), a Gallo-Roman settlement at Tourdan, Revel-Tourdan, Isère, France; a stage on the Peutinger Table road from Vienne to Milan via Grenoble.
Tureng Tepe
Tureng Tepe (Persian: تورنگ تپه) is the largest archaeological site of the Gorgan plain in north-east Iran, occupied for nearly seven millennia from the Neolithic onward.
Tureshmat Corona
Tureshmat Corona is a 150-km-wide corona (quasi-circular volcano-tectonic feature) on Venus at 51.5°S, 70.5°W, in quadrangle V-60; IAU-named in 1997 for the Ainu creator goddess.
Turf Moor
Turf Moor is a football stadium in Burnley, Lancashire, and the home ground of Burnley FC since 1883; league football has been played there since 1888.
Turf Talk
Turf Talk is the stage name of Demar Bernstein, a rapper from Vallejo, California and cousin of E-40, best known as a distinctive voice of the Bay Area's hyphy movement.
Turf war (conflict)
A turf war is a conflict over territory or influence, most notably involving criminal organizations, such as the one in Medellín, Colombia, which caused 318 homicides in 2017.
Turgenev (Mercurian crater)
Turgenev is a 136-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 65.68°N, 136.26°W, IAU-approved in 1979 and named for the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883), following Mercury's artist-naming theme.
Türgesh Khaganate
The Türgesh Khaganate (Chinese: 突骑施) was a Turkic khaganate centered in Zhetysu, Central Asia, from 699 to the 750s, strongest under Suluk, who resisted the Umayyad Caliphate.
Turgis
Turgis is a large impact crater on Saturn's moon Iapetus, about 580 kilometers across and the largest well-preserved basin on that moon, lying on the edge of Cassini Regio.
Turgmam Fluctus
Turgmam Fluctus, a ~140,000 km² digitate fan lava flow field on Venus at 58.4–52.7°N, 215.8–225.1°E, fed by a fissure system between Vinmara and Ganiki Planitiae, studied via Magellan radar.
Turgo turbine
The Turgo turbine is an impulse hydraulic turbine invented in 1920 by Gilbert Gilkes Ltd, used mainly for medium-head small hydro, micro-hydro, and pico-hydro installations.
Turgor pressure
Turgor pressure is the hydrostatic pressure above ambient in walled cells, generated by osmotic water inflow; typically 0.1–0.4 MPa up to 2–3 MPa, measured directly with the cell pressure probe.
Turgot
Turgot (c. 1050–1115) was a Benedictine monk who served as prior of Durham Cathedral from 1087 and became Bishop of St Andrews, consecrated in 1109.
Turgut Özal
Turgut Özal (Turgut Özal, 1927-1993), Turkish engineer-technocrat, prime minister 1983-1989 as founder of the Motherland Party, and eighth president 1989-1993; architect of the 24 January 1980 liberalization and of Turkey's export-oriented turn.
Turgut Reis
Turgut Reis (طرغوت ريس), known in Europe as Dragut, was an Ottoman corsair and admiral under Suleyman the Magnificent who conquered Tripoli from the Knights of Malta in 1551.
Turgut Uyar
Turgut Uyar, full name Ahmet Turgut Uyar, was a Turkish poet and civil servant, a leading figure of the İkinci Yeni movement that reshaped Turkish poetry from the mid-1950s.