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Toronto-Dominion Bank
Toronto-Dominion Bank, also known as TD Bank Group, is a Canadian multinational bank formed in 1955 by merging the Bank of Toronto and the Dominion Bank.
Toropets depot explosions
Toropets depot explosions: September 2024 Ukrainian drone strikes on the Russian 107th GRAU arsenal in Tver Oblast, destroying about 30,000 tons of ammunition and registering magnitude 2.8 seismic tremors.
Tororo (food)
Tororo (とろろ) is Japanese grated raw mountain yam (yamaimo or nagaimo), a sticky paste served over rice (tororo gohan), soba noodles, or in okonomiyaki; eaten raw for its amylase, distinct from Tororo District, Uganda.
Torosa gas field
Torosa is a gas and condensate field in the Browse Basin, about 425 km north of Broome, Western Australia, discovered in 1971 and still undeveloped.
Torosaurus
Torosaurus ("bull lizard") is a large Late Cretaceous ceratopsian dinosaur, 7.5 m long, from Canada and the USA, named by Marsh in 1891; debated as possibly an aged Triceratops but now generally considered valid.
Torpan Pojat
Torpan Pojat (ToPo), Helsinki basketball club founded 1932 in Munkkiniemi; nine men's Finnish titles 1960-1998, first women's championship 2024, 1967 European Cup participant, distinct from ToPoLa.
Torpedo
A torpedo is a self-propelled underwater weapon carrying an explosive warhead toward a ship or submarine, guided by its launch platform, an internal seeker, or both.
Torpedo boat
A torpedo boat is a small, fast warship whose primary weapon is the torpedo, designed to attack larger surface ships at low cost while staying close to coastal waters.
Torpedo bomber
The torpedo bomber, or torpedo plane, is a military aircraft that attacks ships with an air-dropped torpedo from a low, straight-and-level run, prominent in World War II.
Torpedo car
A torpedo car, also known as a torpedo ladle car, is a torpedo-shaped rail vessel that transports molten pig iron from the blast furnace to the steelmaking plant.
Torpedo Maculopathy
Torpedo maculopathy (TM), or solitary hypopigmented nevus of the RPE, is a rare congenital torpedo-shaped retinal pigment epithelium lesion temporal to the fovea, usually unilateral and asymptomatic, first described by Roseman and Gass in 1992.
Torpedo marmorata
Torpedo marmorata, the marbled electric ray (also marbled torpedo, spotted torpedo), is a solitary eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean electric ray of the family Torpedinidae that ambushes small bony fish with shocks up to 200 volts; globally IUCN Vulnerable since 2021.
Torpedo tube
A torpedo tube, or torpedo launcher, is a cylindrical device on submarines and surface ships from which a torpedo is ejected or swims out into the water.
Torpex
Torpex, short for TORpedo EXplosive, is a British World War II explosive of 41% RDX, 41% TNT, and 18% aluminum, filling depth charges against U-boats.
Torpor
Torpor: a controlled, reversible reduction of metabolic rate, heart rate, and body temperature in birds and mammals. Includes daily torpor (under 24 h) versus hibernation (multiday bouts), metabolic suppression to 6-35% of basal rate, hypothalamic and adenosine control, and synthetic torpor research.
Torquaratoridae
Torquaratoridae is a family of deep-sea acorn worms (Enteropneusta, Hemichordata) described in 2005, living epibenthically at 350–4,000 m, with reduced proboscis skeleton, collar lips, demersal drifting, and fecal cords.
Torquato Neto
Torquato Neto (1944–1972) was a Brazilian poet, lyricist, and journalist from Teresina, one of the principal figures of the Tropicália movement of the late 1960s.
Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) was an Italian poet of the sixteenth century, best known for the pastoral play Aminta (1573) and the epic poem Gerusalemme liberata on the First Crusade.
Torquay
Torquay, Devon, England: seaside resort town in Torbay on the English Riviera, known for Kents Cavern, Torre Abbey (1196), its 1848 railway, Victorian resort heyday, and ongoing harbourside regeneration; distinct from Torquay, Victoria, Australia.
Torquay United F.C.
Torquay United F.C., the Gulls, English club formed 1 May 1899 in Torquay, Devon; Football League member 1927-2014, home Plainmoor, now National League South under Bryn consortium ownership after 2024 administration.
Torquay, Victoria
Torquay, Victoria: Surf Coast town on Wadawurrung country, formerly Spring Creek/Puebla, renamed 1892. Home of Bells Beach, the Rip Curl Pro, Rip Curl and Quiksilver, and the start of the Great Ocean Road.
Torque
Torque, also called moment of force, is the turning effect of a force about a point or axis, defined as τ = r × F and measured in newton meters.
Torque (film)
Torque (2004) is a Joseph Kahn action film starring Martin Henderson, Ice Cube, and Monet Mazur, a self-aware Fast & Furious parody with motorcycles; it grossed $46.5 million on a $40 million budget and scored 22% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Torque converter
A torque converter is a fluid coupling placed between an engine and an automatic transmission, transmitting power through circulating fluid, allowing slip, and multiplying torque at low speeds.
Torque density
Torque density is the torque an actuator delivers divided by its own mass, expressed in N·m/kg; it is the headline figure for comparing compact joint actuators in legged robots, humanoids, and exoskeletons.
Torque magnetometry
Torque magnetometry measures the mechanical torque a magnetic field exerts on a magnetized sample, the most straightforward technique for determining a magnet's anisotropy energy and easy magnetization directions.
Torque ripple
Torque ripple is the periodic fluctuation in the output torque of an electric motor or rotating machine, affecting vibration, acoustic noise, efficiency, and motion quality.
Torque teno virus
Torque teno virus (TTV) is a common human DNA virus with a circular single-stranded genome, discovered in 1997 and not known to cause disease in humans.
Torque transducer
A torque transducer, or torque sensor, measures the torque applied to a shaft or fastener and converts it into an electrical signal, in reaction and rotary types.
Torque vectoring
Torque vectoring is a drivetrain technology that varies torque between the left and right drive wheels to create a yaw moment, helping cars corner and reducing understeer.