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Tchibouela Marine Oil and Gas Field

Tchibouela Marine, also known as Tchibouela Marine field, is an offshore oil and gas field in the Republic of the Congo, discovered in 1984 and producing since 1987.

Tchicapika-Owando

Tchicapika-Owando, also written Tchikapika-Owando, is a Ramsar Site of about 970,000 hectares in the Cuvette department of the Republic of the Congo, designated in 2015 and sheltering forest elephants and critically endangered western gorillas.

Tchicaya U Tam'si

Tchicaya U Tam'si, born Gérald-Félix Tchicaya, was a Congolese French-language poet, novelist, and playwright, a leading figure of Francophone African poetry who won the 1966 Dakar festival poetry prize.

Tchintabaraden massacre

The Tchintabaraden massacre was a mass killing of Tuareg civilians by Niger's armed forces in May 1990, triggering the Tuareg rebellion of 1990 to 1995.

Tchologo

Tchologo, a region of northern Côte d'Ivoire (chef-lieu Ferkessédougou), created 2011, departments Ferkessédougou, Kong, Ouangolodougou; 17,382 km², 603,084 inhabitants (RGPH 2021), cotton and agro-industry economy.

Tchotchke

A tchotchke, also spelled tsatske, is a small, inexpensive trinket, ornament, or souvenir of Yiddish and Slavic origin, first attested in American English in the 1960s.

Tchoukaillon

Tchoukaillon: solitaire mancala variant created 1977 by Véronique Gautheron from Tchuka Ruma; every move must end in the store (roumba); unique winning boards, stone counts bounded by n²/π.

Tchoukball

Tchoukball: non-contact team sport invented by Swiss physician Hermann Brandt in the 1960s-70s; teams score by rebounding a ball off a frame so it hits the ground; FITB founded 1971; first World Championships Taiwan 1984.

TCI Fund Management

TCI Fund Management is a London-based hedge fund founded by Christopher Hohn in 2003, known for its highly concentrated value portfolio, shareholder activism, and a record $18.9 billion gain in 2025.

Tci Real Estate Partners

TCI Real Estate Partners is a series of private real estate funds managed by TCI Fund Management Limited of London, offered to qualified purchasers under Rule 506(b) exemptions.

Tcl

Tcl, or Tool Command Language, is a scripting language created by John Ousterhout at UC Berkeley in 1988 and used mainly as an embeddable "glue" language.

TCL Technology

TCL Technology, formerly TCL Corporation, is a Chinese technology group founded in 1981 by Li Dongsheng and headquartered in Huizhou, Guangdong, focused on semiconductor displays and new energy photovoltaics.

TCL1A

TCL1A (TCL1, TCL1 family AKT coactivator A) is a human 14q32.13 gene encoding a 14 kDa AKT coactivator oncoprotein; dysregulated by TCR translocations in T-PLL and a prognostic marker in CLL.

TCMTB

TCMTB, chemically (benzothiazol-2-ylthio)methyl thiocyanate, is an organothiocyano fungicide and biocide used in wood preservation, pulp and paper mills, leather, and paints, and formerly as a seed treatment.

TCOF1

TCOF1 (treacle ribosome biogenesis factor 1), gene at 5q32-q33.1 encoding the nucleolar phosphoprotein treacle, which drives rRNA transcription and the nucleolar DNA damage response; its mutations cause most Treacher Collins syndrome (TCS1) cases.

TCorp

TCorp, formally the New South Wales Treasury Corporation, is the central borrowing authority of the Australian state of New South Wales, raising debt and investing funds for NSW public entities.

TCP (antiseptic)

TCP is a British over-the-counter liquid antiseptic of halogenated phenols 0.68% w/v and phenol 0.175% w/v, used for sore throats, mouth ulcers, and minor wounds; distinct from trichlorophenol.

TCP congestion control

TCP congestion control is the set of Transmission Control Protocol algorithms that regulate how much data a sender may inject, sharing capacity fairly and avoiding network collapse.

TCP delayed acknowledgment

TCP delayed acknowledgment, or delayed ACK, is a TCP technique in which a receiver deliberately waits before sending acknowledgments so one ACK can cover multiple segments, reducing overhead.

TCP Reno

TCP Reno is a TCP congestion control algorithm, first implemented in the 1990 BSD Reno release of Berkeley Unix, adding fast recovery to the earlier TCP Tahoe.

TCP Westwood

TCP Westwood (TCPW) is a sender-side TCP congestion control algorithm, introduced in 2001, that estimates achieved bandwidth from ACKs instead of halving its window after a loss.

TCP1

TCP1 (t-complex 1, CCT1) is a human gene at 6q25.3 encoding the alpha subunit of the CCT/TRiC chaperonin, an eight-subunit ATP-dependent folding machine for actin, tubulin, and about 10% of cytosolic proteins.

tcpdump

tcpdump is a free, open-source command-line tool that captures network traffic and prints packet summaries, created in 1987 at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and now maintained by The Tcpdump Group.

TCR sequencing

TCR sequencing, also called T-cell receptor sequencing or TCR-seq, reads rearranged V(D)J genes, using the CDR3 region as a barcode for T-cell diversity and clonality.

TCU Horned Frogs football

TCU Horned Frogs football: Texas Christian University's Big 12 program, national champions 1935 and 1938, first SWC title 1929, 2014 Big 12 champs, 2022 CFP runner-up.

TCV

TCV, or Technology Crossover Ventures, is a Menlo Park, California venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Jay Hoag and Rick Kimball, known for backing Netflix.

TD Ameritrade

TD Ameritrade was an American discount and online brokerage firm offering low-commission stock, ETF, and options trading, acquired by Charles Schwab in a 2020 deal.

TD Bank (United States)

TD Bank, formerly Banknorth and TD Commerce Bank, is the American retail arm of Canada's Toronto-Dominion Bank; in 2024 it pleaded guilty to money laundering failures.

TD Canada Trust

TD Canada Trust is the Canadian personal and commercial banking brand of The Toronto-Dominion Bank, adopted in 2000 when TD acquired Canada Trust for $8 billion.

TD Canada Trust Tower (Toronto)

The TD Canada Trust Tower is a 51-storey office skyscraper at 161 Bay Street in Toronto, completed in 1990, the taller tower of the Brookfield Place complex.