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Triangulum

Triangulum is a small constellation of the northern sky, one of the 48 listed by Ptolemy, best known as the home of the Triangulum Galaxy, Messier 33.

Triangulum Galaxy

The Triangulum Galaxy, also known as Messier 33 or M33, is a spiral galaxy about 2.73 million light-years from Earth and the third-largest member of the Local Group.

Trianon

Trianon (board game) is a 1992 abstract strategy game by Hans van Maanen, played on a 5x5 board where players drop stones and lose by having 3 of their own stones on an orthogonal or diagonal line; Ludii identifier DLP.Games.1520.

Triantafyllos Chavakis

Triantafyllos Chavakis is a Greek-born German clinician-scientist and immunologist at TU Dresden who showed that trained innate immunity is initiated in bone marrow stem cells.

Triapenthenol

Triapenthenol (CAS 76608-88-3, EU ID 155, trade name Baronet) is a triazole plant growth regulator and gibberellin biosynthesis inhibitor used on oilseed rape; not approved in the EU, default MRL 0.01 mg/kg.

Triarchic theory of intelligence

Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence (1985) holds that intelligence comprises componential, experiential, and contextual subtheories, expressed as analytical, creative, and practical abilities, measured by the STAT and debated against g-factor psychometrics.

Triarylboranes

Triarylboranes are organoboron compounds of formula BAr3, in which three aryl groups bond to tricoordinate boron, making strong Lewis acids used in catalysis, sensors, OLEDs, and bio-imaging; tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane is the prominent member.

Triassic

The Triassic, the first period of the Mesozoic Era, ran from about 252 to 201 million years ago, saw the first dinosaurs, and opened after Earth's largest mass extinction.

Triassic amphibians

Triassic amphibians were dominated worldwide by large aquatic temnospondyl predators that recovered after the end-Permian extinction, while the earliest undisputed frogs appeared in the Early Triassic.

Triassic–Jurassic extinction

The Triassic–Jurassic extinction, also called the end-Triassic extinction, was a mass extinction about 201 million years ago, likely caused by massive CAMP volcanic eruptions as Pangea broke apart.

Triassic–Jurassic fern spore abnormalities

Triassic–Jurassic fern spore abnormalities are malformed fossil spores, up to 70% in some samples, marking environmental stress at the end-Triassic extinction about 201.6 million years ago.

Triasulfuron

Triasulfuron (CASRN 82097-50-5, C14H16ClN5O5S) is a sulfonylurea ALS-inhibiting herbicide for broadleaf and grassy weeds in wheat, barley, fallow, and rangeland; sold since 1987, water dispersible granules, persistent in alkaline soils with crop rotation restrictions.

Triathlon

Triathlon: swim, bike, run race in succession. First held San Diego 1974; Ironman from 1978; Olympic sport since Sydney 2000 at 1,500 m/40 km/10 km; governed by World Triathlon.

Triatominae

Triatominae, kissing bugs or triatomine bugs, are blood-feeding assassin bugs (Reduviidae) that transmit Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas disease; 157 species in 18 genera and five tribes, mostly in the Americas.

Triaxial shear test

The triaxial shear test, or triaxial compression test, is a laboratory test measuring the shear strength of a soil specimen under confining pressure, used in foundation design.

Triazbutyl

Triazbutyl (4-n-butyl-1,2,4-triazole, RH-124, CAS 16227-10-4) is a systemic fungicide developed by Rohm and Haas for wheat leaf rust control by seed, foliar, and soil application; not EU-approved since 2002.

Triazolam

Triazolam (Halcion) is a short-acting benzodiazepine hypnotic for sleep onset insomnia, half-life 2-3 hours, 0.125-0.25 mg tablets, boxed warning, CYP3A4 interactions, withdrawn in UK and France.

Triazophos

Triazophos (CAS 24017-47-8), an organophosphorus insecticide, acaricide, and nematicide acting as an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor; WHO class Ib, banned in India and not approved in the EU or US.

Triazoxide

Triazoxide: ISO name for 7-chloro-3-imidazol-1-yl-1,2,4-benzotriazine 1-oxide, a contact, non-systemic imidazole (benzotriazine) fungicide used as a cereal seed treatment at 2-4 g AI/100 kg seed; EU-approved 2011, expired 2021.

TRIB3

TRIB3 (tribbles homolog 3, TRB3) is a mammalian pseudokinase gene encoding a 45-kDa stress-induced scaffold protein that binds Akt, ATF4/CHOP, and COP1, linking insulin resistance, diabetes, and cancer progression.

Tribadism

Tribadism, also called tribbing or scissoring, is genital rubbing between women, especially vulva-to-vulva contact. From Greek tribein "to rub"; historically named the clitoris-linked "tribade" figure before narrowing to the act itself.

Tribal chief

Tribal chief: leader of a tribal or customary community, holding inherited or elected authority. Also called traditional leader or customary chief; in US tribal governments the chief executive is usually an elected chairman, president, or principal chief.

Tribal Commissioner-in-Chief Offices

Tribal Commissioner-in-Chief Offices (部族节度使司) were Liao and later Jin dynasty offices that placed a tribal commissioner-in-chief at the head of a tribe, with military and civil authority over it.

Tribal food distribution and food sovereignty programs in the United States

Tribal food distribution and food sovereignty programs in the United States center on FDPIR, a federal program delivering monthly USDA food packages to income-eligible Native American households on or near reservations.

Tribal Seeds

Tribal Seeds are an American roots reggae band from San Diego, California, formed in 2005 by the brothers Steven and Tony-Ray Jacobo; their album Representing topped the Billboard Reggae chart in 2014.

Tribal sovereignty in the United States

Tribal sovereignty in the United States is the inherent authority of 574 federally recognized tribes to govern themselves. This authority predates the Constitution and is exercised over tribal lands.

Tribal-class destroyer (1936)

The Tribal-class destroyer, also known as the Afridi class, was a class of large, heavily gun-armed fleet destroyers built for the Royal Navy from 1937.

Tribalism

Tribalism: strong loyalty to one's own tribe or social group, also the tendency to treat one's group as "us" and others as "them". Studied via social identity theory; scholars since Vail (1989) and Mafeje treat tribalism as partly a colonial construct, and "tribe" is discredited in anthropology.

Tribanadhari Barbarik

Tribanadhari Barbarik (త్రిబాణధారి బర్బరీక్) is a 2025 Telugu suspense thriller directed by Mohan Srivatsa, starring Sathyaraj as a psychiatrist searching for his missing granddaughter, reimagining the mythological Barbarik; released 29 August 2025, flopped theatrically, streamed on Sun NXT and Prime Video.

Tribble

Tribbles are fictional small, furry, purring Star Trek aliens created by David Gerrold for the 1967 episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" (originally named "fuzzies"), famous for rapid reproduction, recurring in Deep Space Nine's "Trials and Tribble-ations".