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Tokai Medical Products

Tokai Medical Products is a Japanese medical-device manufacturer in Kasugai, Aichi, founded in 1981 by Nobumasa Tsutsui, known for Japan's first domestically produced IABP balloon catheter.

Tokai Reprocessing Plant

The Tokai Reprocessing Plant (東海再処理工場) was Japan's first spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, located at Tokai-mura in Ibaraki Prefecture and run from 1977 to 2007 by JAEA.

Tokai Teio (トウカイテイオー)

Tokai Teio (トウカイテイオー), Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse foaled 1988 by Symboli Rudolf; won 1991 Satsuki Sho and Derby, 1992 Japan Cup, 1993 Arima Kinen; 12 starts, 9 wins; JRA Hall of Fame 1995.

Tōkaidō Line (東海道線) (JR East)

The Tōkaidō Line (東海道線) is JR East's Tokyo-area commuter section of the Tōkaidō Main Line, running from Tokyo Station to Atami via Kawasaki and Yokohama.

Tokaido Shinkansen (東海道新幹線)

The Tokaido Shinkansen (東海道新幹線), also known as the New Tokaido Line, is Japan's original high-speed rail line connecting Tokyo and Shin-Osaka, opened in 1964 and operated by JR Central.

Tōkaidō Yotsuya Kaidan

Tōkaidō Yotsuya Kaidan, commonly Yotsuya Kaidan, is an 1825 kabuki ghost play by Tsuruya Nanboku IV and one of the most frequently adapted stories in Japanese theater and film.

Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige

Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige (東海道中膝栗毛) is a Japanese comic novel by Jippensha Ikku, first published in 1802, following Yaji and Kita on a journey along the Tōkaidō road.

Tokaimura nuclear accidents

The Tokaimura nuclear accidents were a 1997 fire and explosion and a 1999 criticality accident at nuclear fuel facilities in Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan, killing two workers.

Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape

Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape (Tokaji borvidék), UNESCO World Heritage site in Hungary since 2002, criteria (iii) and (v); 27 settlements, Tokaji Aszú noble-rot wine, cellars since 1110, closed wine region delimited 1737.

Tokaji

Tokaji is the PDO-protected wine of Hungary's Tokaj region, famous for Tokaji Aszú, a noble-rot sweet wine from Furmint and five other grapes; first demarcated in 1737 and UNESCO-listed in 2002.

Tokamak

A tokamak is a doughnut-shaped device that confines plasma with magnetic fields, proposed by Andrei Sakharov and Igor Tamm around 1950, and the leading design for fusion power.

Tokamak control

Tokamak control is the real-time feedback and feedforward control that keeps tokamak plasma at desired current, position, shape, and stability, adjusting magnetic coils and heating within milliseconds.

Tokamak disruption

A plasma disruption is a sudden loss of magnetic confinement in a tokamak plasma, releasing stored energy in milliseconds; ITER's shattered pellet injection system mitigates the damage.

Tokamak Energy

Tokamak Energy is a British company founded in 2009 as a UK Atomic Energy Authority spin-out, developing compact spherical tokamaks with high-temperature superconducting magnets for fusion power.

Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor

The Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) was an experimental tokamak at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory that operated from 1982 to 1997 and set world records for fusion power.

Tokari geet

Tokari geet (টোকাৰী গীত) is a genre of Assamese folk song, devotional ballads sung to the tokari lute, known for themes of mythology, Krishna devotion, and the soul.

Tokash Bokin

Tokash Bokin (Тоқаш Бокин; 1890–1918) was a Kazakh translator and public figure, a leader of the 1916 uprising in Zhetysu who later helped establish Soviet power there.

Tokat

Tokat, a province of Türkiye in the Central Black Sea interior (NUTS TR832), capital Tokat city; 614,141 people (2025), 10,072 km², agriculture-based economy, GDP per capita 70th of 81 regions, rich Komana-to-Ottoman heritage.

Tokata Iron Eyes

Tokata (Tokatawin) Iron Eyes, later Gibson, is a Hunkpapa and Oglala Lakota Standing Rock Sioux youth climate activist who led the ReZpect Our Water campaign against the Dakota Access Pipeline at age 12 and later worked with Greta Thunberg.

Tokay gecko

The tokay gecko (Gekko gecko) is a large nocturnal, arboreal gecko native to Southeast Asia and southern China, named for its loud "to-kay" territorial call.

Toke Makinwa

Toke Makinwa (Tokunbo Makinwa, born 1984) is a Nigerian radio and TV host, vlogger, author, and entrepreneur known for Rhythm 93.7 FM's Morning Drive, the Toke Moments vlog, the 2016 memoir On Becoming, and her beauty and fragrance brands.

Tokelau

Tokelau: non-self-governing New Zealand territory of three atolls (Atafu, Nukunonu, Fakaofo), UN-listed since 1946, population about 1,500, rotating Ulu-o-Tokelau head, failed 2006 and 2007 free-association referendums.

Tokelauan oral literature

Tokelauan oral literature is the spoken, sung, and narrated tradition of Tokelau's three atolls in gagana Tokelau, covering tales (kakai), historical accounts (tala), and fatele songs.

Token (railway signalling)

In railway signaling, a token is a physical object a train driver must hold before entering a section of single track, ensuring only one train occupies it.

Token bucket

The token bucket is a network algorithm that controls traffic rate by accumulating tokens up to a burst capacity, allowing bursts while enforcing an average limit.

Token bus network

A token bus network is a local area network where stations pass a token to control access, standardized as IEEE 802.4 and used mainly in factory automation.

Token coin

Token coin: a coin-like, privately issued substitute for legal-tender money, usually struck in base metal with a denomination, part of exonumia; historical English, American, casino, and modern digital-token senses.

Token currency of Muhammad bin Tughlaq

The token currency of Muhammad bin Tughlaq (محمد بن تغلق کا ٹوکن کرنسی) was a Delhi Sultanate scheme of brass and copper tokens at par with silver tankas, 1329–1332.

Token dropping

Token dropping is a technique in sparse Mixture-of-Experts training where tokens routed to an expert beyond its fixed capacity skip that expert and pass through unchanged.

Token economy

A token economy is a behavior-modification system in which target behaviors earn tokens, such as chips or points, later exchanged for rewards in psychiatric care, classrooms, and smartphone apps.