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Tickling

Tickling: touching the body to provoke laughter or squirming, divided into knismesis (light, feather-like) and gargalesis (heavy, laughter-inducing); self-tickle is suppressed by cerebellar prediction, and rats and great apes are ticklish too.

Ticks of domestic animals

Ticks of domestic animals are Ixodidae and Argasidae parasites of livestock, dogs, and cats that transmit babesiosis, theileriosis, and other diseases; controlled historically by arsenic dipping since 1893, now challenged by acaricide resistance and managed through integrated tick management.

Ticlopidine

Ticlopidine, sold as Ticlid, is an oral antiplatelet drug of the thienopyridine class that irreversibly blocks the platelet ADP P2Y12 receptor; synthesized in 1972, it was superseded by clopidogrel.

Tico Torres

Tico Torres (Hector Samuel Juan Torres, born 1953) is the American drummer of Bon Jovi since 1983, formerly a first-call session player with Pat Benatar, Cher, and Alice Cooper, also a painter.

Ticonderoga-class cruiser

The Ticonderoga-class cruiser, also known as the Aegis cruiser, is a class of 27 US Navy guided-missile cruisers, in service from 1983 to 1994, built around the SPY-1 radar.

Ticrynafen

Ticrynafen (tienilic acid, Selacryn, SKF 62698) is a withdrawn uricosuric diuretic antihypertensive approved in the US in 1979, distinguished by lowering serum uric acid, and withdrawn January 1980 for immunoallergic hepatitis linked to anti-LKM2 antibodies against CYP2C9.

Ticsani

Ticsani is a dacitic lava dome complex in Moquegua region, southern Peru, 60 km NE of Moquegua city, 30 km SE of Huaynaputina. Last eruption about 1800 CE; fumarolic activity, recurring seismic swarms, high-risk classification, green alert, monitored by IGP and INGEMMET.

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TID

TID, the stage name of Khalid Mohamed, is a Tanzanian Bongo Flava singer born in Dar es Salaam in 1981, known for "Kiuno", "Nyota Yako", and "Zeze".

Tidal (album)

Tidal (1996) is Fiona Apple's debut album on Epic Records, produced by Andy Slater, 10 songs in 51 minutes, featuring "Criminal". It went platinum within a year, sold about 3 million copies, and shaped later artists including Kanye West.

Tidal (service)

Tidal is a subscription music streaming service with a catalog of over 180 million songs, known for its lossless and high-resolution audio tiers and direct-to-fan artist sales tools.

Tidal acceleration

Tidal acceleration, also called tidal friction, is the transfer of angular momentum from Earth's rotation to the Moon's orbit, which makes the Moon recede about 3.8 cm per year.

Tidal asymmetry

Tidal asymmetry is the inequality between the flood and ebb phases of a tidal cycle, arising when tidal waves distort in shallow water and shaping estuary sediment transport.

Tidal barrage

A tidal barrage is a dam-like structure built across an estuary or bay that traps tidal water and releases it through turbines to generate electricity.

Tidal bore

A tidal bore, also called a mascaret or bore tide, is a moving wave that travels upstream when the rising tide enters a shallow, converging estuary, reaching up to 6 meters.

Tidal bulge

A tidal bulge is an elongation of a body's oceans or solid interior toward and away from an attracting companion, caused by gravity's differing pull across the body.

Tidal circularization

Tidal circularization is the damping of orbital eccentricity in a binary system by tides raised on the bodies, causing the initially eccentric orbit to evolve toward a circular state.

Tidal creek

Tidal creek, also called tidal channel or mangrove creek: a small channel network in coastal wetlands, tidal along its entire length, draining watersheds under 50 km2 into estuaries. Known for dendritic tapering channels, nursery habitat for fisheries, and remote-sensing extraction methods.

Tidal disruption event

A tidal disruption event (TDE) is the flare produced when a supermassive black hole tears apart a passing star, outshining its host galaxy for months to years.

Tidal disruption of binaries

Tidal disruption of binaries is the separation of a bound pair of small bodies passing close to a planet, which can split binaries or capture one member.

Tidal dissipation

Tidal dissipation is the conversion of tidally induced motions in a celestial body into heat, which circularizes orbits and drives spins toward synchronism in binary stars and star–planet systems.

Tidal flat

Tidal flat, also called mudflat or intertidal flat: a marsh, sandy, or muddy coastal flatland covered and uncovered by tides; at least 127,921 km² globally, rich in shorebirds, fisheries, and blue carbon.

Tidal force

A tidal force, also called tidal gravity, is the difference in the strength of gravity between two points, which raises ocean tides and tears stars apart near black holes.

Tidal freshwater marsh

A tidal freshwater marsh is a herbaceous wetland in the upper estuary or tidal river, where ocean tides move the water twice daily but river discharge keeps it fresh.

Tidal harmonic constants

Tidal harmonic constants (THCs) are the amplitude and phase lag of each tidal constituent at a location; once known, they let the tide be predicted far into the future.

Tidal heating

Tidal heating is the generation of internal heat in a planet or moon by friction from repeated tidal flexing, powering Io's volcanism, Europa's subsurface ocean, and Enceladus's plumes.

Tidal inlet

A tidal inlet is a narrow waterway cutting through a barrier island or spit, connecting the ocean to the bay or lagoon behind it and exchanging water with the tide.

Tidal island

Tidal island: land joined to the mainland or another island at low tide and cut off at high tide, via a bar, causeway, or road. Examples include Lindisfarne, St Michael's Mount, and Mont-Saint-Michel; Britain has 43 principal tidal islands.

Tidal lagoon

A tidal lagoon is a proposed form of tidal range power station: a man-made impoundment basin with embedded turbines that generates electricity from the rise and fall of the tide.

Tidal locking

Tidal locking, also called synchronous rotation, is when a body's rotation matches its orbit so the same hemisphere always faces its companion, as the Moon does to Earth.