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Toli-Toli
Toli-Toli (Tolitoli) is a regency and town in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, capital Baolan, 4,079.77 km2, 226,794 people (2021). Former Kingdom of Tolitoli; names Totolu, Tontoli (1858), Tolitoli (1918); split from Buol in 2000; agriculture about 41% of the economy.
Toliara
Toliara (Tuléar) is a port city on Madagascar's southwest coast, capital of Atsimo-Andrefana region, ~180,000-250,000 people, semi-arid climate, home of the Great Reef of Toliara and the Toliara mineral sands project.
Tolima, Nevado del
Nevado del Tolima (Volcán Nevado del Tolima) is a 5,215 m glacier-clad andesitic-dacitic stratovolcano in Colombia's Ruiz-Tolima massif, 25 km south of Nevado del Ruiz; last known eruption 1943 CE, last major eruption about 3,600 years ago.
Toliman
Volcán Tolimán (also Northern Atitlán, Casuela Juyu) is a 3,158 m andesitic stratovolcano on the south shore of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, twin of Atitlán, with no known historical eruptions and a young Cerro de Oro flank lava dome.
Tolino
Tolino is a German e-reader brand and platform launched in 2013 by an alliance of German booksellers; since 2017 its technology platform has belonged to Rakuten Kobo.
Tolk power station
Tolk power station, also called Tolk Generating Station, is a two-unit, 1,067 MW coal-fired plant near Muleshoe in Lamb County, Texas, owned by Xcel Energy subsidiary SPS.
Tolkāppiyam (தொல்காப்பியம்)
Tolkāppiyam (தொல்காப்பியம்), also Tholkappiyam, is the oldest extant Tamil grammar and poetics treatise, attributed to Tolkāppiyar: three books covering phonology, morphology-syntax, and the akam/puram thinai system of Sangam poetry.
Tolkappiyar
Tolkappiyar (தொல்காப்பியர்) is the author of the Tolkappiyam, the oldest Tamil grammar surviving complete, covering sound, word, and meaning, traditionally composed at a Pandya court.
Tolkien (film)
Tolkien is a 2019 biographical drama film directed by Dome Karukoski, starring Nicholas Hoult as J.R.R. Tolkien, covering his youth, romance with Edith Bratt, and wartime service.
Tolkien Estate
Tolkien Estate: legal entities and family trustees managing J. R. R. Tolkien's literary copyright and trademarks, distinct from film rights sold to United Artists in 1969 and later held by Saul Zaentz and Embracer's Middle-earth Enterprises.
Tolkien family
The Tolkien family is an English family of German-Prussian origin, best known through writer J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Tolkien's legendarium
Tolkien's legendarium is J.R.R. Tolkien's invented mythology for England centered on Middle-earth, spanning The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, invented languages, and the posthumous History of Middle-earth edited by Christopher Tolkien.
Toll board
A toll board is a manual telephone switchboard position where operators completed, supervised, and ticketed calls beyond the local exchange, later automated by Direct Distance Dialing.
Toll bridge
A toll bridge is a bridge whose users pay a fee to cross, typically to repay construction costs, with tolls often removed once the debt is paid.
Toll Brothers
Toll Brothers, founded in 1967 by brothers Bob and Bruce Toll, is a Fortune 500 home builder headquartered in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, focused on luxury homes and master-planned communities.
Toll road
A toll road, also known as a tollway or turnpike, is a road, bridge, or tunnel whose users pay a fee, which typically funds construction and maintenance.
Toll stations (chaoguan)
Toll stations (chaoguan, 钞关) were Ming dynasty checkpoints, mostly along the Grand Canal, that taxed passing boats by carrying capacity rather than cargo value, first in paper notes and later in silver.
Toll-free telephone number
A toll-free telephone number, also called a freephone number, is a number whose call charges are paid by the called party, using North American codes like 800 and 888.
Toll-free telephone numbers in the North American Numbering Plan
Toll-free telephone numbers in the North American Numbering Plan are numbers in area codes 800, 833, 844, 855, 866, 877, and 888 whose call charges the called party pays.
Toll-like receptor
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are innate-immune pattern-recognition receptors detecting PAMPs like LPS and nucleic acids; ten human members signal via MyD88/TRIF adaptors and NF-κB, recognized by the 2011 Nobel Prize and used in vaccine adjuvants.
Tolland County
Tolland County, Connecticut: one of eight legacy counties of 13 towns including Tolland, Vernon, Mansfield, and Somers; established by 1785, county government abolished October 1, 1960, now a geographic subdivision.
Tollens' reagent
Tollens' reagent, also known as ammoniacal silver nitrate or the silver mirror test, is an alkaline solution that oxidizes aldehydes but not ketones, depositing metallic silver on glass.
Tollien Schuurman
Tollien Schuurman (Tollina Wilhelmina Schuurman, 1913-1994), Dutch Frisian sprinter, held 100 m (12.0, 11.9) and 200 m (24.6) world records early 1930s; 1932 Los Angeles Olympian, relay fourth.
Tolling (manufacturing)
Tolling, or toll manufacturing, is a manufacturing arrangement in which the client supplies raw materials, keeps ownership throughout, and pays the processor a fee for conversion.
TOLLIP
TOLLIP (toll-interacting protein, IL-1RAcPIP), gene at 11p15.5, encodes a 274-amino-acid ubiquitin-binding adaptor regulating TLR/IL-1 inflammation, endosomal trafficking, and lung disease genetics including IPF and tuberculosis susceptibility.
Tollmien–Schlichting wave
A Tollmien–Schlichting wave, named for Walter Tollmien and Hermann Schlichting, is an unstable wave in a laminar boundary layer that begins the transition to turbulent flow.
Tollund Man
Tollund Man (Tollundmanden), Iron Age Danish bog body found 1950 in Bjældskovdal bog near Silkeborg; hanged man dated 375–210 BC, displayed at Museum Silkeborg, famous for his preserved face and last-meal studies.
Tolmachevo Airport
Tolmachevo Airport (OVB/UNNT), Novosibirsk International Airport named after Pokryshkin, is Siberia's largest airport, opened 12 July 1957, hub of S7 Airlines, with a 3,600 m runway, new 2023 terminal, and ongoing reconstruction.
Tolman VII solution
The Tolman VII solution is an exact, static, spherically symmetric perfect-fluid solution of the Einstein equations whose density falls off quadratically with radius, making it a viable model for neutron stars.
Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit
Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit (Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit): maximum mass of a cold, non-rotating neutron star before black-hole collapse, from the 1939 TOV equation; originally ~0.7 solar masses, now estimated at 2.25(+0.08/−0.07) M_sun.