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Tiger's eye
Tiger's eye is a golden-brown chatoyant gemstone of quartz whose parallel fibers produce a moving band of light; it is the most widely used cat's-eye gem in jewelry.
Tigerair
Tigerair, also known as Tiger Airways, was a Singapore-based low-cost airline that began flying in 2004 and merged into sister carrier Scoot in July 2017.
Tigerfish
Tigerfish (Hydrocynus, Alestidae), African freshwater predatory fish; six species including H. vittatus and H. goliath; strictly fish-eating, striped, sharp-toothed gamefish shaped by African Rift tectonics.
Tigerland
Tigerland (2000) is a Joel Schumacher war drama starring Colin Farrell as rebellious recruit Roland Bozz at Fort Polk's Vietnam-era infantry training camp; shot in 28 days on 16mm, it flopped at the box office but launched Farrell's career.
Tigerlily
Tigerlily (Dara Kristen Hayes) is an Australian DJ and producer from Sydney whose career began with the 2011 Your Shot competition and a #1 Beatport hit with KSHMR.
Tigermed
Tigermed (泰格医药), or Hangzhou Tigermed, is a Chinese contract research organization founded in Hangzhou in 2004 that manages clinical trials; it is China's largest clinical CRO and dual-listed in Shenzhen and Hong Kong.
Tigers Blood
Tigers Blood is the sixth studio album by Waxahatchee, released in 2024. It features collaborators like MJ Lenderman and Spencer Tweedy, continuing the country-folk direction.
TIGGE
TIGGE, originally the THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble, is a multi-model archive of global ensemble weather forecasts from operational prediction centers, accumulating data since October 2006.
Tigger
Tigger, the bouncy tiger of A.A. Milne's The House at Pooh Corner (1928), named for Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed toy; Disney debut 1968, voiced by Paul Winchell, US public domain January 1, 2024.
Tiggy Legge-Bourke
Tiggy Legge-Bourke, now Alexandra Pettifer, was nanny to Princes William and Harry. In 2022 the BBC paid her substantial damages for Martin Bashir's fabricated affair and abortion claims used to obtain the 1995 Diana Panorama interview.
Tighee (तिघी)
Tighee (तिघी), also rendered Three of Us, is a 2026 Marathi family drama directed by debutant Jeejivisha Kale, starring Bharati Achrekar, Nehha Pendse, and Sonalee Kulkarni as an ailing mother and her estranged daughters; released 6 March 2026, streaming on ZEE5 from 15 May 2026.
Tight end
Tight end (TE, the Y): American football offensive position lining up beside the tackle, blocking and receiving. Defined by Mike Ditka (1961); central to the NFL's 12/13 multi-tight-end personnel trend.
Tight frame
A tight frame is a collection of vectors in a Hilbert space with a constant bound A such that every vector has a simple reconstruction formula.
Tight hymenal ring
Tight hymenal ring (rigid hymen, tight introitus; ICD-11 LB42.3, ICD-10-CM N89.6): a constricted hymenal opening causing dyspareunia and tampon or penetration difficulty, distinct from imperforate hymen, managed with dilation or minor surgery.
Tight junction
Tight junction (zonula occludens): cell–cell adhesion complex of epithelia and endothelia sealing the paracellular space; built from claudins, occludin, JAMs, and ZO scaffold proteins; controls ion-selective permeability, cell polarity, and barrier disease.
Tight junction protein ZO-2
Tight junction protein ZO-2 (TJP2, zonula occludens 2) is a 160 kDa MAGUK-family scaffold at epithelial tight junctions that binds claudins and occludin, shuttles to the nucleus as a transcriptional repressor, and whose biallelic TJP2 mutations cause PFIC4 cholestasis and Amish familial hypercholanemia.
Tight-binding method
The tight-binding method is a semi-empirical electronic-structure method that expands crystal wavefunctions in localized atomic orbitals to compute band structures, sitting between fast empirical force fields and slower, more accurate ab initio methods.
Tight-binding model
The tight-binding model, first developed by Felix Bloch in 1928, is a band theory method describing electrons in solids as localized atomic orbitals with hopping integrals, fast compared with ab initio methods.
Tightness of measures
Tightness of measures, or tightness of a measure, is the property that a family of probability measures puts mass at least 1 − ε on one compact set for every ε > 0.
Tightrope
Tightrope (1984) is an American psychological crime thriller, Richard Tuggle's directorial debut, starring Clint Eastwood as New Orleans detective Wes Block hunting a killer of prostitutes whose tastes mirror his own; it grossed $48.1 million and holds an 86% Tomatometer.
Tightrope walking
Tightrope walking, or funambulism, is performing on a wire stretched between two points, from ancient rope dancing to circus tightwire, Blondin, Philippe Petit, and Nik Wallenda, distinct from slacklining.
Tights
Tights are a single knitted garment covering the legs from waist to toes, also called pantyhose when sheer. Invented by Allen Gant (PantiLegs, 1959), popularized by Mary Quant and the miniskirt, made mainly of nylon and elastane.
TIGIT
TIGIT (T cell immunoreceptor with Ig and ITIM domains) is an inhibitory immune checkpoint receptor on T and NK cells, identified in 2009, binding CD155; anti-TIGIT drugs like tiragolumab largely failed phase III trials.
Tiglath-Pileser I
Tiglath-Pileser I, also Tukulti-apil-Esharra I, was king of Assyria from 1114 to 1076 BC whose campaigns reached the Mediterranean and who composed the first known royal annals.
Tiglath-Pileser I's Aramaean campaigns
Tiglath-Pileser I's Aramaean campaigns were the military operations of the Middle Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser I (r. 1114–1076 BC) against the Aḫlamû-Arameans of the Middle Euphrates.
Tiglath-pileser I's campaigns
Tiglath-pileser I's campaigns were the military expeditions of the Middle Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser I (r. 1114–1076 BC) against the Mushki, the Arameans, and Babylonia, reaching the Mediterranean.
Tiglath-Pileser II
Tiglath-Pileser II (Tukultī-apil-Ešarra II) was king of Assyria from 966 to 935 BC, the son of Ashur-resh-ishi II and father of Ashur-dan II, during Assyria's recovery from a century of collapse.
Tiglath-Pileser III
Tiglath-Pileser III, also known as Pul and Tukultī-apil-Ešarra III, was king of Assyria from 745 to 727 BC and briefly king of Babylon, annexing Aram-Damascus and most of Israel.
Tiglath-pileser III's Babylonian campaign
Tiglath-pileser III's Babylonian campaign was an Assyrian intervention in Babylonia from 731 to 729 BC that defeated Mukin-zeri and put Tiglath-pileser on the Babylonian throne.
Tiglath-Pileser III's campaign to Philistia and Transjordan
Tiglath-Pileser III's campaign to Philistia and Transjordan was a series of Assyrian campaigns in 734–732 BC that reduced the Philistine cities and Galilee to tribute and annexed Damascus.