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Turbo (Judas Priest album)
Turbo (1986) is the tenth studio album by British heavy metal band Judas Priest, produced by Tom Allom on CBS/Columbia. Known for its guitar synthesizers, the single "Turbo Lover", UK No. 33 and US No. 17 chart peaks, RIAA platinum status, and the 2017 Turbo 30 3CD reissue.
Turbo (music producer)
Turbo (Turbo the Great), Atlanta trap producer born 1994 in College Park, Georgia; known for Gunna and Lil Baby's Diamond "Drip Too Hard," the "Run dat back, Turbo" tag, and The Playmakers collective.
Turbo C++
Turbo C++ was a line of Borland integrated development environments and compilers for C and C++ on MS-DOS, first released in 1990 and widely used in education.
Turbo code
A turbo code is a forward error-correcting code introduced in 1993 by Claude Berrou and Alain Glavieux in France, the first practical code to approach the Shannon limit.
Turbo cornutus
Turbo cornutus (サザエ, 소라), the horned turban, is an edible turbinid sea snail of the Northwest Pacific, found around southern Korea and Japan from the lower intertidal to 30 m; Chinese populations are the separate species T. chinensis.
Turbo decoding
Turbo decoding is an iterative error-correction method, introduced in 1993 by Claude Berrou and colleagues, in which two soft-output decoders exchange probabilistic information until they converge.
Turbo equalization
Turbo equalization is an iterative receiver technique for digital communications in which a soft-output equalizer and channel decoder exchange probabilistic information to combat intersymbol interference.
Turbo FAST
Turbo FAST (Turbo F.A.S.T.) is DreamWorks Animation's animated snail-racing series, Netflix's first original kids show, premiered December 24, 2013, created by Chris Prynoski, three seasons, removed from Netflix April 2023.
Turbo granny
Turbo Granny (ターボババア, Tābo Babā) is a Japanese urban legend of an old woman running alongside speeding cars, and the yokai character based on it in Yukinobu Tatsu's manga and anime Dandadan, where she is first antagonist, then maneki-neko ally.
Turbo Kid
Turbo Kid (2015), also known from its short T Is for Turbo, is a Canadian-New Zealand post-apocalyptic action-comedy by RKSS, starring Munro Chambers and Michael Ironside, set in 1997 with BMX bikes and gore.
Turbo multiuser detection
Turbo multiuser detection is a receiver technique for coded CDMA systems in which channel decoding and multiuser detection are performed jointly through an iterative exchange of soft information, in analogy with turbo decoding.
Turbo Pascal
Turbo Pascal, also known as Borland Pascal, is a Pascal compiler and integrated development environment released by Borland in 1983 for CP/M and MS-DOS, priced at $49.95.
Turbo principle
The turbo principle is a receiver design rule that approximates joint estimation by iteratively exchanging extrinsic information between soft-input soft-output blocks, coined by Hagenauer in 1997.
Turbo Recordings
Turbo Recordings is a Canadian record label founded in Montreal in 1998 by Tiga, whose catalog of over 300 records launched Gesaffelstein, Charlotte de Witte, and Chromeo.
Turbo roundabout
A turbo roundabout is a two-lane roundabout where raised dividers and spiral markings channel vehicles into fixed paths, invented in the Netherlands in 1996 by Bertus Fortuijn.
Turbo trellis-coded modulation
Turbo trellis-coded modulation (TTCM) is a bandwidth-efficient channel coding scheme that combines the parallel-concatenated structure and iterative decoding of turbo codes with trellis-coded modulation, introduced by Robertson and Wörz in 1998.
Turbo-folk
Turbo-folk (турбо-фолк) is a Serbian pop-folk fusion genre that emerged in the early 1990s from newly composed folk music, blending folk melodies with techno, dance, and hip-hop beats.
Turbo-Hydramatic
Turbo-Hydramatic is General Motors' family of hydraulically controlled automatic transmissions introduced in 1964, best known for the three-speed TH350, TH400, and TH200 and four-speed successors like the 700-R4.
Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie
Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie is a 1997 American children's science fiction film in which the Rangers use new Turbo powers to stop the space pirate Divatox.
Turbocharger
A turbocharger, also called a turbo-supercharger, is a forced-induction device using an exhaust-driven turbine to spin a compressor, letting an engine burn more air and fuel for more power.
Turboexpander
A turboexpander is a rotating machine that expands pressurized gas through a turbine to refrigerate it, recovering the extracted work to drive a compressor or generator.
TurboExpress
The TurboExpress, sold in Japan as the PC Engine GT, is a handheld game console released by NEC in 1990 that plays the PC Engine's full HuCard library.
Turbofan
A turbofan, or fanjet, is a jet engine with a large fan that accelerates air around the core, giving airliners high thrust and good fuel efficiency.
TurboGrafx-16
TurboGrafx-16, called PC Engine (PCエンジン) in Japan, is a fourth-generation console by Hudson Soft and NEC, launched 1987/1989, with an 8-bit CPU, 16-bit graphics, HuCards, and the first CD-ROM add-on.
TurboGrafx-16 Mini
TurboGrafx-16 Mini (PC Engine mini): Konami's 2020 microconsole emulating NEC's PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16, with 57 built-in games, M2 emulation, $99.99, Amazon-exclusive, released March 19, 2020 after a COVID delay.
Turbojet
A turbojet is a gas turbine aircraft engine producing thrust from a single airstream, first developed independently by Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain in the 1930s.
Turbolinks
Turbolinks was a JavaScript library that made server-rendered web applications navigate faster by replacing the page body without a full reload, shipping by default with Ruby on Rails from version 4.0.
Turbomeca
Turbomeca was a French turboshaft engine manufacturer founded by Joseph Szydlowski at Bordes, whose Artouste powered the Alouette II and which became Safran Helicopter Engines in 2016.
Turbomolecular pump
A turbomolecular pump is a kinetic vacuum pump whose turbine-like rotor, spinning at tens of thousands of rpm, drives gas molecules toward a backing-pump exhaust; W. Becker patented the first in 1956.
Turbonegro
Turbonegro (Turboneger in Norway) is a Norwegian deathpunk rock band formed in Oslo in 1988 or 1989, known for Ass Cobra, Apocalypse Dudes, the 1998-2002 breakup and comeback, the Turbojugend fan clubs, and the Rockheim Hall of Fame.