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Tool use and function calling

Tool use and function calling are mechanisms by which a large language model invokes external systems such as APIs and code interpreters instead of answering only from its own parameters.

Tool wear monitoring

Tool wear monitoring is a manufacturing engineering method that infers cutting tool wear from indirect signals such as cutting force, vibration, and acoustic emission during machining.

Tool-assisted speedrun

Tool-assisted speedrun (TAS): a speedrun made with emulator tools like savestates, frame advance, and re-recording, played back as a perfect input movie; distinct from RTA, archived at TASVideos, benchmarked by the 4:54.265 Super Mario Bros. TAS.

ToolBench

ToolBench is a large-scale instruction-tuning dataset and benchmark for tool use, built by OpenBMB from 16,464 real RapidAPI REST endpoints and released with the ToolEval evaluator and the ToolLLaMA model.

Toolformer

Toolformer is a language model introduced by Meta AI in February 2023 that taught itself when to call external tools, such as a calculator and Wikipedia search, from its own annotations.

Toolibin Lake

Toolibin Lake is a seasonal fresh-to-brackish wetland in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia, Ramsar-listed in 1990 and the region's last large wetland dominated by living sheoak.

Toolroom

Toolroom, also known as Toolroom Records, is a British independent house and tech house record label founded in 2003 by brothers Mark and Stuart Knight in Maidstone, England.

Tools for Humanity

Tools for Humanity is a San Francisco and Munich technology company founded in 2019 by Alex Blania, Sam Altman, and Max Novendstern to build World, formerly Worldcoin.

Toon Blast

Toon Blast is a free-to-play, level-based tile-matching puzzle game released in 2017 by the Istanbul studio Peak Games, where players tap groups of same-colored cubes to clear them.

Toon Disney

Toon Disney was a 24-hour American all-animation cable network launched by Disney on April 18, 1998, drawing on over 2,200 library episodes; it hosted the Jetix block and was rebranded Disney XD on February 13, 2009.

Toon Verheyen

Toon Verheyen is a Stockholm-based biotechnology entrepreneur and scientist who co-founded the 3D spatial transcriptomics company CubaseBio in 2024 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer.

Toona

Toona is a small genus of deciduous trees in the mahogany family Meliaceae, native from China through tropical Asia to eastern Australia and grown for its light, fragrant red timber.

Toona ciliata

Toona ciliata, known as Australian red cedar or toon, is a large deciduous timber tree in the mahogany family, native from southern China to eastern Australia.

Toonami

Toonami is Cartoon Network's action-anime programming block, launched March 17, 1997, cancelled 2008, revived on Adult Swim May 26, 2012, known for TOM, Dragon Ball Z, Naruto, and Saturday-night anime.

Toonie

The toonie is Canada's two-dollar bimetallic circulation coin, a bronze-colored core locked inside a silver-colored ring, introduced on February 19, 1996 to replace the $2 banknote and nicknamed after the loonie.

Tooning Out the News

Tooning Out the News (Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out the News) is an American animated news satire series, 2020-2023, on CBS All Access and Paramount+, led by cartoon anchor James Smartwood interviewing real guests.

Toono

Toono (Yurt's Roof) is a Mongolian two-player capturing board game on a circular board resembling a yurt's roof ring; six pieces per player move three spaces along lines, capturing on the third, winning by eliminating the opponent.

Toontown Online

Toontown Online, also called Disney's Toontown Online, was a kid-friendly MMORPG launched June 2, 2003 and closed September 19, 2013, where Toons fought Cog robots with gags; revived by Toontown Rewritten.

Toontown Rewritten

Toontown Rewritten (TTR) is a free, fan-run revival of Disney's Toontown Online, launched September 19, 2013 after Disney's closure; faithful to the original, with sprinting, Sellbot Field Offices, and over 2 million registered players.

Tooro Kingdom

Toro Kingdom, also spelled Tooro, is a traditional Bantu kingdom in western Uganda centered on Fort Portal, founded around 1830 when Prince Kaboyo Olimi I seceded from Bunyoro.

TootArd

TootArd, Arabic for "strawberry," is a band from Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, founded in 2010 by the Nakhleh brothers and now a genre-fluid duo.

Toote Kalam

Toote Kalam (टूटे कलम) is a Hindi poetry collection attributed to Agyeya, pioneering modernist Hindi writer, which archival and bibliographic records of his works do not list.

Tooter Turtle

Tooter Turtle, sometimes spelled Tudor or Tutor, is a 1960 Total Television animated segment on NBC's King Leonardo and His Short Subjects: a turtle whose dream jobs fail until Mr. Wizard chants him home.

Tooth

Tooth: hard mineralized oral organ made of enamel, dentin, cementum, and pulp; develops via odontogenesis, cannot regenerate enamel, and is protected against cavities by fluoride and sealants.

Tooth contact analysis

Tooth contact analysis (TCA) is a computational gear engineering method that simulates tooth meshing to predict a gear drive's contact pattern and transmission errors before manufacture.

Tooth decay

Tooth decay (dental caries, cavities): a biofilm-mediated, sugar-driven disease in which plaque bacteria acids demineralize teeth. Most prevalent condition globally; 2.26 billion untreated permanent-teeth cases in 2023; managed with fluoride, sealants, SDF, and restorations.

Tooth enamel

Tooth enamel: hardest, ~97% hydroxyapatite tissue covering the tooth crown, formed by ameloblasts during amelogenesis; acellular, non-regenerating, protected by fluoride remineralization; defects include fluorosis and amelogenesis imperfecta.

Tooth Eruption

Tooth eruption: movement of teeth from alveolar bone to functional position in the mouth. Primary teeth erupt 4–10 months after birth; dental follicle and PTHrP signaling drive the process; teething symptoms affect about 70–80% of infants.

Tooth fairy

The Tooth Fairy is a Western folklore figure who takes a child's tooth left under the pillow and leaves money; first named in 1949, distinct from the Spanish Ratoncito Pérez mouse tradition.

Tooth Fairy (2010 film)

Tooth Fairy is a 2010 American family comedy-fantasy film directed by Michael Lembeck, starring Dwayne Johnson as a hockey player sentenced to serve as a real tooth fairy.