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Transaction (TV series)
Transaction is a 2025 British ITV2 workplace sitcom created by and starring Jordan Gray, based on her 2020 Comedy Central shorts, about unsackable trans supermarket worker Liv, with Nick Frost as boss Simon.
Transaction account
A transaction account, also called a checking account or demand deposit account, is a deposit account allowing unlimited third-party payments and withdrawals, defined by Regulation D.
Transaction cost
A transaction cost, the cost of using the price mechanism, covers search, bargaining, and enforcement costs; Ronald Coase introduced it in 1937 to explain why firms exist.
Transaction Planet
Transaction Planet: upcoming American indie sci-fi feature and directorial debut of Connor Storrie, shot entirely on an iPhone; an alien spirit inhabits a 25-year-old human body, starring Gabe Kessler and Bailey Tait, self-funded and in post-production.
Transaction Processing Performance Council
The Transaction Processing Performance Council, founded in 1988 by eight companies, defines transaction processing and database benchmarks, with independently audited results that vendors publish and buyers use to compare systems.
Transaction processing system
A transaction processing system, also called a transaction server, records commercial exchanges such as banking, reservations, and order entry as reliable database transactions with ACID guarantees.
Transaction-level modeling
Transaction-level modeling (TLM) is an abstract modeling style for digital systems in which concurrent processes communicate through transactions carried by function calls, enabling fast virtual platforms and part of the SystemC standard.
Transactional analysis
Transactional analysis (TA), developed by Eric Berne in the 1950s, is a personality theory and psychotherapy using Parent, Adult, and Child ego states, transactions, games, strokes, and life scripts.
Transactional interpretation
The transactional interpretation, or Cramer interpretation, is an interpretation of quantum mechanics proposed by John G. Cramer in 1986, describing quantum events as wave exchanges between emitter and absorber.
Transactional leadership
Transactional leadership is a leadership style built on exchange, in which leaders clarify expectations and reward compliance or correct deviations; James MacGregor Burns named it in 1978.
Transactional memory
Transactional memory is a concurrency-control technique that groups memory reads and writes into a transaction committing atomically or aborting, proposed by Herlihy and Moss in 1993.
Transactional outbox
Transactional outbox, also called application events: a microservices reliability pattern in which outgoing messages are written to an outbox table in the same local database transaction as the state change, then published by a relay (polling publisher or transaction log tailing), solving the dual write problem with at-least-once delivery.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (TRSTMH), monthly peer-reviewed journal of the RSTMH founded 1907, published by Oxford University Press; covers tropical medicine, infectious diseases, parasitology, and public health; 2025 Impact Factor 1.6.
Transaldolase
Transaldolase (TAL, EC 2.2.1.2, human gene TALDO1) is a cofactor-less pentose phosphate pathway enzyme transferring a 3-carbon dihydroxyacetone unit via a lysine Schiff base; its inherited deficiency is a rare liver disease.
Transaldolase deficiency
Transaldolase deficiency (TALDO deficiency, Eyaid syndrome, OMIM 606003) is a rare autosomal recessive pentose phosphate pathway disorder caused by TALDO1 variants, causing liver disease, cytopenias, cardiac defects, and polyol accumulation.
Transalkylation
Transalkylation is a catalytic reaction that transfers an alkyl group from one aromatic molecule to another, used industrially to convert toluene and C9 aromatics into benzene and xylenes.
Transall C-160
The Transall C-160 is a twin-engine tactical military transport aircraft built by a Franco-German consortium, flown by France, Germany, and Turkey from its first flight in 1963 until 2026.
Transalpine Pipeline Group
The Transalpine Pipeline Group (TAL) operates a 753 km crude oil pipeline from Trieste across Austria to refineries in Germany and the Czech Republic, in service since 1967.
TransAlta
TransAlta is a Canadian independent power generation company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, operating hydroelectric, wind, solar, and natural gas plants in Canada, the United States, and Australia.
TransAlta USA
TransAlta USA is the United States operations platform of TransAlta Corporation, a Canadian power generator, running 12 facilities across nine states, anchored by the Centralia plant in Washington.
Transamerica (film)
Transamerica is a 2005 American comedy-drama road film written and directed by Duncan Tucker, starring Felicity Huffman as Bree, a pre-operative transsexual woman on a cross-country trip with the son (Kevin Zegers) she never knew she had; Golden Globe winner, two Oscar nominations.
Transamerica Corporation
Transamerica Corporation is the American insurance, retirement, and investment business of Aegon Ltd., serving over 10 million US customers; it was incorporated in 1928 as Bank of America's parent.
Transamerica Pyramid
The Transamerica Pyramid is an 853-foot, 48-story pyramid-shaped office tower at 600 Montgomery Street in San Francisco's Financial District, designed by William Pereira and opened in 1972 as the city's tallest building until 2018.
Transamination
Transamination: enzyme-catalyzed transfer of an amino group from an amino acid to a keto acid, via PLP-dependent aminotransferases (ALT, AST) in a ping-pong mechanism; discovered by Braunstein in 1937, central to nitrogen metabolism and industrial chiral amine synthesis.
Transanal endoscopic microsurgery
Transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM) is a minimally invasive operation in which a rigid, sealed rectoscope is inserted through the anus to excise rectal tumors and close the defect, with no abdominal incision.
Transanal Endoscopic Surgery
Transanal endoscopic surgery (TES): TEM, TEO, and TAMIS techniques for local excision of rectal neoplasms through the anus using CO2 insufflation and endoscopic optics; TEM introduced by Gerhard Buess in 1983, TAMIS in 2010.
Transanal excision
Transanal excision (TAE) is a surgical technique that removes rectal lesions and early tumors through the anus, without abdominal incision, as an organ-sparing alternative to radical resection for selected low rectal tumors.
Transanal irrigation
Transanal irrigation (TAI) is a bowel management technique in which water is introduced into the rectum and colon to provoke emptying, treating chronic constipation, fecal incontinence, and neurogenic bowel dysfunction.
Transanal total mesorectal excision
Transanal total mesorectal excision (taTME) is an operation for mid and low rectal cancer in which the rectum and mesorectum are dissected through the anus, from below.
Transantiago
Transantiago is the integrated public transport system of Santiago, Chile, combining private bus operators with the state-owned Metro; its chaotic 2007 launch became a widely studied reform.