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Telegraphy in the United States
Telegraphy in the United States was the network of telegraph lines and companies that carried messages nationwide from Morse's 1844 line onward, with Western Union holding over 90 percent of the market by 1866.
Telehealth
Telehealth, also called telemedicine, is the delivery of health care services at a distance through telecommunications technology, including video visits, remote monitoring, diagnosis, and health education.
Telehouse
Telehouse is a global colocation and data center services provider owned by the Japanese telecommunications company KDDI, operating more than 40 data centers in over 20 cities and 10 countries.
Teleilat el-Ghassul
Teleilat el-Ghassul, also written Tulaylat al-Ghassul, is a 20-hectare prehistoric mound complex near the Dead Sea in Jordan, occupied from about 5000 BCE and known for its painted wall frescoes.
Telekinesis
Telekinesis, now usually called psychokinesis (PK), is the claimed mental influence of physical objects or random processes. Dice and RNG experiments, meta-analyses, and replications find no accepted evidence for it.
Telekom Center Athens
Telekom Center Athens, also known as the Olympic Indoor Hall, is the largest indoor arena in Greece, an 18,500-seat venue at the Athens Olympic Sports Center in Marousi.
Telekom Malaysia
Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) is Malaysia's national connectivity and digital infrastructure provider and dominant fixed-line broadband operator, tracing its origins to 1946 and listing in 1990.
Telekom Museum
Telekom Museum (Muzium Telekom), also known as the National Telecommunications Museum, is a museum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, opened in 1994 in a 1920s colonial-era telephone exchange.
Telekom Slovenije
Telekom Slovenije is Slovenia's largest telecommunications operator, providing fixed and mobile telephony, broadband internet, and television services. Headquartered in Ljubljana, it is majority owned by the Republic of Slovenia.
Telekom Srbija
Telekom Srbija (Телеком Србија) is a Serbian telecommunications company, majority owned by the Republic of Serbia. Founded in 1997, it is Serbia's largest operator in mobile, fixed, and broadband services.
TELEMAC
TELEMAC, distributed as openTELEMAC, is an open-source suite of scientific codes for modeling free-surface environmental hydraulics, developed by Électricité de France and first released in 1992.
Telemachus (crater on Tethys)
Telemachus is a 92-km peaked impact crater on Saturn's moon Tethys at lon 339°, lat 54°, crossed by Ithaca Chasma, named for Odysseus' son in Homer's Odyssey, with few superimposed craters implying a young age.
Telemachus (Τηλέμαχος)
Telemachus (Τηλέμαχος), son of Odysseus and Penelope in Homer's Odyssey; hero of the Telemachy (Books 1–4), journeys to Pylos and Sparta, helps kill the suitors, later marries Circe in the Telegony.
Telemanipulator
A telemanipulator, also called a remote or master-slave manipulator, is a remotely operated device whose slave arm mimics an operator's motions, invented at Argonne National Laboratory in 1948 for handling radioactive material.
Telemark skiing
Telemark skiing, a free-heel ski discipline from 19th-century Norway credited to Sondre Norheim, uses the lunging Telemark turn; FIS races combine Classic, Sprint, and Parallel Sprint formats with judged technique.
Telemarketing
Telemarketing, also known as telesales or telephone solicitation, is the direct-marketing practice of selling goods or services or soliciting charitable contributions by telephone, regulated in the United States under the FTC's Telemarketing Sales Rule.
Telematics
Telematics is a field combining telecommunications and informatics to collect, transmit, and analyze data from vehicles and remote objects, used in fleet management, usage-based insurance, and in-vehicle emergency calls.
Telematics control unit
A telematics control unit (TCU) is an embedded vehicle system connecting a car to cellular networks and satellites, delivering emergency calling, diagnostics, tracking, and over-the-air updates.
Telematics-based insurance
Telematics-based insurance, commonly called usage-based insurance (UBI), is auto insurance in which insurers monitor mileage and driving behavior through in-vehicle devices or smartphone apps to set premiums.
Telemecanique
Telemecanique (Télémécanique) is a French industrial control and automation brand founded in 1924, known for its contactors and sensors, acquired by Schneider Electric in 1988; the sensor line continues as Telemecanique Sensors.
Telemetry
Telemetry, also known as telemetering or radio telemetry, is the measurement of quantities at a remote source and their transmission to a location where they can be displayed, recorded, or processed.
Telemonitoring
Telemonitoring is the remote monitoring of a patient's condition using connected medical devices and sensors, with data transmitted to health workers, often for chronic conditions.
Telemundo
Telemundo, also called the Telemundo Network, is NBCUniversal's Spanish-language U.S. broadcast network, acquired by NBC in 2002 for $1.98 billion; it reaches 96% of Hispanic TV households and aired the exclusive Spanish-language FIFA World Cup 2026 coverage.
Telemus (crater on Tethys)
Telemus is a 320-km-wide, heavily degraded impact basin on Saturn's moon Tethys, on the Saturn-facing hemisphere, its rim cut by Ithaca Chasma; IAU-named in 2008 for the Odyssey's prophet of the Cyclops.
Telenet (network)
Telenet was an American commercial packet-switched data network created by BBN under ARPANET architect Lawrence Roberts, opening the first public packet data service in the United States in 1975.
Telenoid
Telenoid (テレノイド) is a teleoperated android robot developed by Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University and ATR, announced in 2010 and used in dementia care research.
Telenominae
Telenominae, egg parasitoid wasps of Platygastroidea (Scelionidae), also called telenomines; genera Telenomus and Trissolcus; larvae develop inside eggs of Lepidoptera, Hemiptera, Diptera, or Neuroptera, one host order per species; used in biological control.
Telenor
Telenor ASA, formerly Norwegian Telecom, is a Norwegian telecommunications group founded in 1855, majority owned by the state, with 207 million mobile customers across eight markets in 2024.
Telenor India
Telenor India, operating under the Uninor brand, was Telenor ASA's Indian mobile unit, launched in 2009 and sold to Bharti Airtel in 2017 after years of losses.
Telenovela
Telenovela: Latin American limited-run serialized melodrama TV genre, also called culebron; produced since the 1950s in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela; closed six-to-fifteen-month nightly narratives, unlike open-ended US soap operas, and a major global export.