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Travel visa

Travel visa: official permission from a destination state to enter, transit, or stay for a set period and purpose, recorded in or with a passport. Also entry permit, eVisa, ETA. Types include immigrant and nonimmigrant visas such as US B-1/B-2 and Schengen Type C; about 73 percent of country pairs are visa-restricted.

Travel writing

Travel writing is the body of literature and journalism that records a journey, combining documentary detail with personal perception and reflection, a genre consolidated in the 17th century.

Travel-time tomography

Travel-time tomography is an imaging method that inverts seismic wave arrival times to reconstruct the Earth's internal velocity structure, adapted from medical imaging in the 1970s.

TravelCenters of America

TravelCenters of America is an American full-service travel center and truck stop operator running the TA, Petro Stopping Centers, and TA Express brands from Westlake, Ohio.

Traveler

Traveler names a 2007 ABC thriller series created by David DiGilio, plus the Canadian series Travelers, a Korean variety show, Kiarostami's 1974 film, and several computing tools.

Traveler (Genshin Impact)

Traveler (Genshin Impact): the player protagonist, Aether or Lumine, one of twin siblings separated by the god Asmoday; the lost twin leads the Abyss Order, and the Traveler switches elements at Statues of the Seven.

Travelers (TV series)

Travelers (2016–2018) is a Canadian sci-fi drama created by Brad Wright, also known from Stargate SG-1. Consciousness from a doomed future occupies 21st-century hosts; three seasons on Showcase and Netflix, starring Eric McCormack, cancelled after Protocol Omega.

Travelers Among Mountains and Streams

Travelers Among Mountains and Streams (谿山行旅图) is a monumental hanging scroll in ink and light color on silk by the Song painter Fan Kuan, dated around 1000.

Travelers' diarrhea

Travelers' diarrhea (TD), the most common travel-related illness, is an infectious diarrheal syndrome affecting 30-70% of travelers to high-risk regions; bacteria, mainly diarrheagenic E. coli, cause most cases, treated with rehydration, loperamide, and severity-based antibiotics.

Traveling (basketball)

Traveling (travelling) is a basketball violation for illegal footwork with the ball: extra steps or illegal pivot-foot movement. NBA rules allow a gather plus two steps; penalty is a turnover.

Traveling Through the Dark

Traveling Through the Dark is a 1962 poetry collection by American poet William Stafford; its title poem, about a dead deer on a mountain road, won the 1963 National Book Award.

Traveling wave fault location

Traveling wave fault location (TWFL) locates faults on power transmission lines by timing the wavefronts a fault launches, reaching accuracy of a few hundred meters on long lines.

Traveling Wilburys

Traveling Wilburys: British-American 1988 supergroup of George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne; two albums (Vol. 1, Vol. 3), a Grammy, triple-platinum sales, and never a live show.

Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1

Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 (Traveling Wilburys Volume 1) is the 1988 debut album by the supergroup of George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, and Jeff Lynne: recorded in ten days, it reached US number 3, sold over 5 million copies, and won a 1990 Grammy.

Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3

Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3, also called Volume 3, is the 1990 second and final album by the Traveling Wilburys, recorded without Roy Orbison, deliberately misnumbered with no Volume 2, and dedicated to Lefty Wilbury.

Traveling-wave antenna

A traveling-wave antenna is one carrying a radio-frequency current that propagates along a guiding structure and radiates continuously, giving wide bandwidth; the rhombic is the best-known form.

Traveling-wave parametric amplifier

A traveling-wave parametric amplifier, or TWPA, is a superconducting microwave amplifier that amplifies a signal along a nonlinear transmission line, with high gain, multi-gigahertz bandwidth, and near-quantum-limited noise.

Traveling-wave tube

The traveling-wave tube (TWT) is a vacuum electron device that amplifies radio-frequency signals by transferring energy from an electron beam, invented in the early 1940s for radar and now the dominant amplifier in satellite communications.

Traveller (Chris Stapleton album)

Traveller, Chris Stapleton's 2015 debut solo album on Mercury Nashville, recorded live at RCA Studio A with producer Dave Cobb; CMA and Grammy-winning, Billboard 200 No. 1 country landmark.

Traveller (role-playing game)

Traveller is a science fiction tabletop RPG created by Marc Miller and published by GDW in 1977, using 2d6 mechanics. Known for the Third Imperium setting, lifepath character generation, and editions from Classic through Mongoose Traveller 2e.

Traveller's Tales

Traveller's Tales, the British studio behind TT Games' LEGO video games, founded 1989 by Jon Burton and Andy Ingram; creator of LEGO Star Wars (2005), 100M+ LEGO game sales, Warner Bros.-owned since 2007, now on Unreal Engine 5.

Travelling salesman problem

The traveling salesman problem, or TSP, asks for the shortest route visiting each listed city exactly once and returning to the start; it is NP-hard.

Travelling wave

A traveling wave, also called a progressive wave or wave of permanent profile, is a disturbance that moves through a medium in one direction at constant speed, carrying energy without transporting matter.

Travelling Without Moving

Travelling Without Moving is Jamiroquai's third studio album, released from 28 August 1996 (Japan) to January 1997 (US), known for "Virtual Insanity", "Cosmic Girl", a UK No. 2 peak, and a Guinness record as the best-selling funk album.

Travelocity

Travelocity is an American online travel agency launched in 1996 by The SABRE Group, then part of American Airlines' parent AMR, and acquired by Expedia in 2015 for $280 million.

Traveloka

Traveloka is an online travel booking platform founded in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2012 by Ferry Unardi, Derianto Kusuma, and Albert Zhang, now based in Singapore.

Travels

Travels is a long autobiographical poem by the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai, first published in Hebrew in 1968 and translated into English by Ruth Nevo.

Travels in the Interior of North America Plates

The Travels in the Interior of North America plates are 81 aquatint prints Karl Bodmer made from 1834 to 1843 to illustrate Prince Maximilian's Missouri River journey.

Traveltime tomography

Traveltime tomography is an inverse method that reconstructs a medium's internal velocity structure from measured wave travel times, imaging the Earth's subsurface from oil fields to the entire mantle.

Travers (Mercurian crater)

Travers is an impact crater on Mercury, 164 km in diameter, named in 2018 for P. L. Travers, the Australian-born British writer of the Mary Poppins books.