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Tridacna squamosa

Tridacna squamosa, the fluted or scaly giant clam (Lamarck 1819), is an Indo-West Pacific photosymbiotic cardiidae bivalve with fluted shell scales, 30-40 cm shell, Least Concern IUCN status, CITES Appendix II.

Tridactyle

Tridactyle Schltr. is a genus of about 52 accepted African angraecoid orchids (Orchidaceae, Vandeae, Angraecinae), epiphytic monopodial herbs with three-lobed, spurred lips, native to tropical and southern Africa.

Tridax

Tridax (coat buttons, tridax daisy) is a genus of about 25-30 Asteraceae herbs native from Mexico to tropical America, published by Linnaeus in 1753; its type species Tridax procumbens is a pantropical weed used in traditional medicine.

Tridax procumbens

Tridax procumbens (coat buttons, tridax daisy, ghamra) is a creeping Asteraceae herb native to Mexico and tropical America, now a pantropical invasive weed of roadsides and waste ground, used traditionally as a hair tonic and wound remedy.

Tridecanol

Tridecanol, also called tridecan-1-ol or tridecyl alcohol, is a long-chain primary fatty alcohol that is a waxy solid at room temperature and used mainly in lubricants, detergents, and plasticizers.

Tridem axle

A tridem axle is a group of three axles mounted close together on a truck or trailer, sharing a common suspension to spread weight over more tires.

Tridemorph

Tridemorph (Calixin, CAS 24602-86-6) is a systemic morpholine fungicide developed by BASF in the 1960s for cereal powdery mildew, banana sigatoka, and tea disease; it inhibits sterol biosynthesis and is no longer EU-approved.

Trident

Trident: a three-pronged spear or fork (Latin tridens), fishing tool, emblem of Poseidon and Neptune, Shiva's trishula, retiarius gladiator weapon, and Ukraine's coat of arms.

Trident (missile)

The Trident II D5 (UGM-133) is a Lockheed Martin submarine-launched ballistic missile first deployed in 1990, carrying MIRV nuclear warheads on US and British submarines.

Trident (UK nuclear programme)

Trident is the United Kingdom's strategic nuclear deterrent, carried by four Vanguard-class submarines on continuous at-sea patrol since 1969, to be replaced by the Dreadnought class in the 2030s.

TRIDENT drill

TRIDENT (The Regolith and Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain) is a rotary-percussive lunar drill built by Honeybee Robotics for NASA's PRIME-1 and VIPER missions.

Trident Intrastate Pipeline

The Trident Intrastate Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline under construction by Kinder Morgan to carry gas about 219 miles from Katy to Port Arthur, Texas.

Trident of Poseidon

The Trident of Poseidon, also known as Poseidon's trident, is a three-pronged spear wielded by the Greek god Poseidon. It signifies his rule over the sea and commands earthquakes.

Tridentine Mass

The Tridentine Mass, also called the Traditional Latin Mass, is the Roman Rite Mass according to the Missal Pope Pius V promulgated in 1570 after the Council of Trent.

Tridev (त्रिदेव)

Tridev (त्रिदेव) is a 1989 Hindi action thriller directed by Rajiv Rai, produced by Gulshan Rai, starring Sunny Deol, Naseeruddin Shah, and Jackie Shroff; the major Hindi hit of 1989, known for the songs Oye Oye and Tirchi Topiwale.

Tridevi (त्रिदेवी)

Tridevi (त्रिदेवी), the three goddesses of Hinduism: Saraswati, Lakshmi, and Parvati/Durga, consorts and shaktis of the Trimurti gods Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, worshipped at Navratri and central to Shaktism.

Tridge

Tridge (트릿지) is a Seoul-based agri-food price intelligence and sourcing platform founded by Hoshik Shin in 2015, which became a unicorn in 2022 before its auditor flagged going-concern doubts.

Tridiagonal matrix algorithm

The tridiagonal matrix algorithm, also known as the Thomas algorithm, is a simplified Gaussian elimination for solving tridiagonal linear systems in linear time, widely used in discretized partial differential equations.

Tridiphane

Tridiphane (nelpon, Dowco 356), CAS 58138-08-2, is an obsolete oxirane grass herbicide and synergist that inhibits glutathione S-transferases, boosting atrazine in corn; first reported 1981, withdrawn in the EU in 2002.

Tridoku

Tridoku (Triangular Sudoku, Tri-Doku) is a triangular Sudoku variant invented by Japheth Light: 81 triangular cells in nine nonets, with outer-edge and inner-triangle lines of 1-9 and a rule that touching cells, up to 12 neighbors, never match.

Tridonic

Tridonic is an Austrian manufacturer of lighting components, including LED drivers, modules, emergency lighting, and controls, headquartered in Dornbirn and serving as the Zumtobel Group's components segment.

Tridymite

Tridymite is a polymorph of silica, chemically identical to quartz but with a different crystal structure, found chiefly in siliceous volcanic rocks, some opals, and certain meteorites.

Trie

A trie, also called a prefix tree or digital tree, is a tree data structure for storing strings where each node represents a distinct prefix of the stored keys.

Trier

Trier (Augusta Treverorum) is a Moselle city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany's oldest city, founded 16/17 BC, a late Roman imperial capital, and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1986 with the Porta Nigra, Cathedral, and Church of Our Lady.

Trier Social Stress Test

The Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) is a laboratory procedure that induces stress by having participants give a job-interview speech and do mental arithmetic before an unresponsive panel.

Trieste

Trieste, northeastern Adriatic port city and former Habsburg free port (Trst), unique EU free-port regime, bora winds to 150 km/h, 2024 port traffic of 59.5 million tonnes and 841,867 TEU.

Trieste (bathyscaphe)

Trieste was a deep-diving research bathyscaphe designed by Auguste Piccard, built in Italy, and launched in 1953; in 1960 Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh piloted it to the Challenger Deep.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

Trieste Kelly Dunn, American actress born 1981 in Provo, Utah; known as Deputy Siobhan Kelly in Banshee, Allison Knight in Blindspot, and Deora Frances Bodley in United 93; UNC School of the Arts graduate and Filmmaker Magazine 25 New Face of 2010.

Triestina

Triestina (US Triestina Calcio 1918), Italian football club of Trieste founded 1918; Serie A runner-up 1947-48 under Nereo Rocco, 26 top-flight seasons, three bankruptcies, now in Serie D Girone C after a 23-point deduction.

Trietazine

Trietazine (CAS 1912-26-1, G 27901) is a chloro-s-triazine photosynthesis-inhibiting herbicide synthesized at Geigy in 1954, used with linuron, simazine, and terbutryn, not EU-approved, and toxic to zebrafish embryos.