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True West (play)

True West is Sam Shepard's 1980 two-act dark comedy about brothers Austin and Lee swapping identities over a Hollywood script in their mother's kitchen near Los Angeles; a 1983 Pulitzer finalist, famous for the 1982 Steppenwolf Sinise-Malkovich staging and the 2000 Broadway revival with Hoffman and Reilly alternating leads.

True Wind Capital

True Wind Capital is a San Francisco private equity firm founded by Adam Clammer and James Greene, former heads of KKR's technology group, investing in lower middle-market technology companies.

True wireless stereo

True wireless stereo (TWS) is a technology that transmits separate left and right audio channels to two independent earbuds with no cable, so each bud works alone or in stereo.

True-up (software licensing)

A true-up is a periodic reconciliation in enterprise software licensing in which the customer reports usage growth and orders licenses at pre-agreed prices, usually yearly.

TrueBridge Capital Partners

TrueBridge Capital Partners is a venture capital firm in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, founded in 2007 by Mel Williams and Edwin Poston, and Forbes' Midas List data partner.

Truecaller

Truecaller is a Swedish mobile app providing caller identification, spam detection, and call blocking. Founded in Stockholm in 2009, it has over 500 million users, especially in India.

TrueCrypt

TrueCrypt was a free, open-source disk encryption program for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux that created on-the-fly encrypted volumes; a 2014 audit found no backdoors, and development ended in May 2014.

Truemeds

Truemeds is a Mumbai-based telehealth and e-pharmacy startup, founded in 2019 by Akshat Nayyar and Dr Kunal Wani, that substitutes generic drugs for branded medicines.

Trueness

Trueness, or measurement trueness, is a metrology concept: the closeness of agreement between the average of replicate measurements and a reference value, one of two components of accuracy.

Truepill

Truepill, legally Postmeds, Inc., was a Hayward, California pharmacy-as-a-service company founded in 2016 by Umar Afridi and Sid Viswanathan, acquired by LetsGetChecked in 2024 and rebranded FuzeRx in 2025.

TrueType

TrueType is an outline font format designed by Apple Computer, shipped with System 7 in 1991 and Windows 3.1 in 1992, that scales to any size without quality loss.

TRUEX process

The TRUEX (TRansUranium EXtraction) process is a solvent extraction process developed at Argonne National Laboratory in the mid-1980s to extract transuranic elements from acidic nuclear waste solutions.

Truf

Truf is an Indonesian trick-taking card game for four players with a 52-card pack; players bid tricks with face-down cards, trump suit comes from the highest bid, and play is main atas or main bawah.

Truffaut (Mercurian crater)

Truffaut is a 79-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 13.49°N, 63.21°W, in quadrangle H-06, adopted by the IAU on August 13, 2024 and named for French filmmaker François Truffaut (1932–1984).

Truffle

Truffle (Tuber spp.), underground ectomycorrhizal fungus prized as food; species include Tuber magnatum, T. melanosporum, T. aestivum. Cultivated since Talon's 1808 orchards; white truffle still uncultivated; prices reach thousands of euros per kilogram.

Truffle Capital

Truffle Capital is an independent venture capital firm based in Paris, founded in 2001, which invests in biomedtech and fintech and raised nearly €400 million in 2019.

Truffle hog

Truffle hog, a pig used to sniff out buried Tuber truffles, drawn by a scent likened to boar sex pheromones; replaced by trained dogs and banned in Italy in 1985 for damaging mycelium.

Truffle oil

Truffle oil is a flavored finishing oil, usually olive oil with synthetic 2,4-dithiapentane rather than real truffles; studies flag mislabeling, marker compounds DMSO and dimethyl sulfone, and heat-sensitive aroma.

Truganini

Truganini (c.1812–1876), also Trugernanner or Trukanini, was a Palawa (Tasmanian Aboriginal) Nuenonne leader of Bruny Island, Robinson's Friendly Mission guide and interpreter, wrongly labeled the 'last Tasmanian'; her displayed remains were cremated in 1976 per her wish.

Truist Financial

Truist Financial is a Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank holding company formed in 2019 by the merger of BB&T and SunTrust Banks, with about $531 billion in assets.

Truist Park

Truist Park, formerly SunTrust Park, is the Atlanta Braves' MLB ballpark in Cobb County, Georgia, opened in 2017. Known for The Battery Atlanta mixed-use district, 25-year naming rights, and debated public financing.

TruJet

TruJet, formally Turbo Megha Airways, was an Indian low-cost regional airline based in Hyderabad that flew ATR 72s to smaller cities of south India from 2015 to 2022.

Trujillanos

Trujillanos FC (Guerreros de la Montaña), Venezuelan football club founded 25 August 1981 in Valera, Trujillo; two-time Copa Venezuela winner (1992, 2010), Apertura 2014 champion, Liga FUTVE 2 champion 2025, back in the Primera División in 2026.

Trujillo Era

The Trujillo Era (Spanish: la Era de Trujillo) was the 1930 to 1961 period when Rafael Trujillo held near-absolute power over the Dominican Republic, ending in his assassination.

Trujillo massacre

Trujillo massacre refers to several mass killings sharing the name: the 1932 execution of Aprista prisoners at Chan Chan, Peru; the 1937 Parsley Massacre of Haitians under Rafael Trujillo; and a 1990 massacre in Trujillo, Colombia.

Trujillo Revolution of 1932

The Trujillo Revolution of 1932, also called the Trujillo Insurrection, was an APRA uprising that seized Trujillo, Peru, on 7 July 1932 and was crushed within days.

Trujillo, Spain

Trujillo (Turgalium, Turyila) is a historic town in Cáceres province, Extremadura, Spain, on a granite hill. Islamic frontier medina, taken by Fernando III in 1232, birthplace of Pizarro and Orellana, BIC historic complex since 1962.

TruKKer

TruKKer is a digital freight platform, founded in 2016 by Gaurav Biswas, connecting businesses with independent truck owners across the Middle East and Central Asia.

Trullo

A trullo is a traditional dry-stone dwelling of Puglia in southern Italy, built of limestone without mortar and roofed with corbelled conical slabs; the finest examples stand in Alberobello, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996.

Truman (2015 film)

Truman (2015) is a Spanish-Argentine comedy-drama by Cesc Gay, co-written with Tomàs Aragay, starring Ricardo Darín and Javier Cámara as friends sharing a dying actor's final days; it won five Goya Awards.