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Thrust-to-weight ratio

The thrust-to-weight ratio (T/W) is a dimensionless ratio of an aircraft's thrust to its weight, also used for engines alone; higher values mean greater acceleration and climb.

ThrustSSC

ThrustSSC, or Thrust SuperSonic Car, is a British twin-jet land speed record car that first broke the sound barrier on land in 1997, reaching 763 mph.

Thruxton (site)

Thruxton Roman Villa, a Romano-British villa site at Mullenspond near Thruxton village, Hampshire (grid SU 2976 4614), known for its 1823-found Bacchus mosaic in the British Museum and its 2002 Danebury Environs excavation.

Thruxton (venue)

Thruxton Circuit is a motor racing circuit near Andover in Hampshire, England, built on a former airfield and known as the fastest race circuit in the UK, hosting British Touring Car and Superbike rounds.

Thryonomys

Thryonomys (cane rats, grasscutters) is the sole living genus of African rodents in family Thryonomyidae, with two species, T. swinderianus and T. gregorianus, large grass-eating rodents up to about 9 kg hunted as bushmeat and farmed in West Africa.

Thryothorus

Thryothorus is a genus of wrens established by Vieillot in 1816; once holding 27 species, it was split by molecular studies and now contains only the Carolina Wren.

Thu ẩm

Thu ẩm ("Drinking wine in autumn") is a Nôm poem by Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Khuyến, one of three famous autumn poems written after he retired to his home village.

Thu điếu

Thu điếu, also titled Câu cá mùa thu, is a Nôm poem by Nguyễn Khuyến depicting a lone fisherman on a small autumn pond in the Red River Delta.

Thủ Đức

Thủ Đức (Thủ Đức City, thành phố Thủ Đức) was Vietnam's first city within a city, formed 1 January 2021 from Districts 2, 9, and Thủ Đức in Ho Chi Minh City (211.56 km², 1,013,795 people) and dissolved 1 July 2025 into 12 wards.

Thu Le Park

Thu Le Park (Công viên Thủ Lệ), also called Hanoi Zoo, is a 29-hectare park and zoo in Ba Dinh District, Hanoi, centered on Linh Lang Lake; animals moved there in 1976, now nearly 600 animals of almost 90 species.

Thu vịnh

Thu vịnh is a Vietnamese autumn poem in classical Đường-law form by Nguyễn Khuyến (1835–1909), one of three famous autumn poems set in the Red River delta countryside.

Thừa Thiên Huế province

Thừa Thiên Huế (tỉnh Thừa Thiên Huế) was a North Central Coast Vietnamese province; from 1 January 2025 its entire territory became the centrally governed city of Huế under Resolution 175/2024/QH15, with a two-tier ward structure from July 2025.

Thuận An

Thuận An (Thuận An) is a name shared by several Vietnamese places: a former provincial city of Bình Dương (city 2020, 83.71 km², over 508,000 people, VSIP I and Viet Huong industrial zones), now Phường Thuận An of Ho Chi Minh City since 1 July 2025, plus a Huế ward and beach.

Thubactis

Thubactis was a Phoenician commercial station on the coast of what is now Libya, placed by modern reference works at the site of Misrata; nothing of the ancient settlement survives above ground.

Thuban

Thuban, also designated Alpha Draconis, is a binary star system about 270 light-years away in Draco that was the North Star when the earliest Egyptian pyramids were built.

Thubursicum Numidarum

Thubursicum Numidarum (Thubursicu Numidarum), Roman town near Khamissa, Algeria; tribal center of the Numidae, Trajanic municipium (100–117 CE), colonia before 270, with theatre, two fora, and the Bagradas spring sanctuary.

Thuc-Quyen Nguyen

Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, also published as Thuc-Quyen T. Nguyen, is a physical chemist who directs the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Thucydidean historiography

Thucydidean historiography is the historical method and tradition associated with the Athenian historian Thucydides, whose History of the Peloponnesian War shaped scientific history and political realism.

Thucydides (Θουκυδίδης)

Thucydides (Θουκυδίδης), Athenian general and historian (c. 460–395 BCE), exiled after losing Amphipolis in 424 BCE, wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War, the founding text cited as the source of political realism and the modern 'Thucydides Trap.'

Thucydides Trap

Thucydides Trap: international relations concept popularized by Graham Allison in Destined for War (2017), holding that rising-versus-ruling power transitions often end in war; 12 of 16 Harvard case-file cases, applied to US-China rivalry and widely criticized.

Thudakkam

Thudakkam (തുടക്കം, Beginning) is a 2026 Malayalam martial arts thriller directed by Jude Anthany Joseph, marking the acting debuts of Vismaya Mohanlal and Aashish Joe Antony, released 7 August 2026, streaming on JioHotstar from 18 September 2026.

Thudarum

Thudarum (തുടരും) is a 2025 Indian Malayalam crime drama thriller directed by Tharun Moorthy, starring Mohanlal as a taxi driver drawn into a criminal investigation.

Thudhamma Zayat

The Thudhamma Zayat (သုဓမ္မာဇယတ်) was the royal religious hall in Mandalay where Burma's Konbaung kings convoked the Sangha; its name survives in the Thudhamma Nikaya, most of the Burmese Sangha.

Thue W. Schwartz

Thue W. Schwartz, born 1951, is a Danish physician-scientist and professor of molecular pharmacology at the University of Copenhagen who works on GPCR pharmacology, appetite regulation, and anti-obesity drugs.

Thue–Morse sequence

The Thue–Morse sequence, also called the Prouhet–Thue–Morse sequence or parity sequence, is an infinite binary sequence whose nth term is the parity of the number of 1s in the binary expansion of n.

Thue–Siegel–Roth theorem

The Thue–Siegel–Roth theorem, also called Roth's theorem, is a result in Diophantine approximation stating that irrational algebraic numbers cannot be approximated by rationals faster than order 1/q².

Thug Behram (ठग बहराम)

Thug Behram (ठग बेहराम), also Buhram Jemadar, was a Thuggee gang leader of Oudh, India, recorded by James Paton as present at 931 murders (about 125 by his own hands) between 1790 and 1840, strangled with a coin-weighted yellow rumal; the figure and the wider Thuggee narrative are disputed by historians.

Thug Life (2025 film)

Thug Life (தக் லைஃப்), 2025 Tamil gangster action drama by Mani Ratnam co-written with Kamal Haasan; released 5 June 2025, UA 16+, music A. R. Rahman; negative reviews, 25% on Rotten Tomatoes, Karnataka ban, Rs 44 crore first week.

Thugga mausoleum

The Thugga mausoleum, also known as the Mausoleum of Atban, is a three-storey Numidian tower tomb about 21 m high at Dougga, Tunisia, from the 2nd century BC.

Thugga temple inscription of Massinissa

The Thugga temple inscription of Massinissa is a Punic and Libyan bilingual stone temple dedication at Dougga, Tunisia, dated to 139/8 BC and cataloged as KAI 101.