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Turf Talk
Turf Talk is the stage name of Demar Bernstein, a rapper from Vallejo, California and cousin of E-40, best known as a distinctive voice of the Bay Area's hyphy movement.
Turf war (conflict)
A turf war is a conflict over territory or influence, most notably involving criminal organizations, such as the one in Medellín, Colombia, which caused 318 homicides in 2017.
Turgenev (Mercurian crater)
Turgenev is a 136-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 65.68°N, 136.26°W, IAU-approved in 1979 and named for the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883), following Mercury's artist-naming theme.
Türgesh Khaganate
The Türgesh Khaganate (Chinese: 突骑施) was a Turkic khaganate centered in Zhetysu, Central Asia, from 699 to the 750s, strongest under Suluk, who resisted the Umayyad Caliphate.
Turgis
Turgis is a large impact crater on Saturn's moon Iapetus, about 580 kilometers across and the largest well-preserved basin on that moon, lying on the edge of Cassini Regio.
Turgmam Fluctus
Turgmam Fluctus, a ~140,000 km² digitate fan lava flow field on Venus at 58.4–52.7°N, 215.8–225.1°E, fed by a fissure system between Vinmara and Ganiki Planitiae, studied via Magellan radar.
Turgo turbine
The Turgo turbine is an impulse hydraulic turbine invented in 1920 by Gilbert Gilkes Ltd, used mainly for medium-head small hydro, micro-hydro, and pico-hydro installations.
Turgor pressure
Turgor pressure is the hydrostatic pressure above ambient in walled cells, generated by osmotic water inflow; typically 0.1–0.4 MPa up to 2–3 MPa, measured directly with the cell pressure probe.
Turgot
Turgot (c. 1050–1115) was a Benedictine monk who served as prior of Durham Cathedral from 1087 and became Bishop of St Andrews, consecrated in 1109.
Turgut Özal
Turgut Özal (Turgut Özal, 1927-1993), Turkish engineer-technocrat, prime minister 1983-1989 as founder of the Motherland Party, and eighth president 1989-1993; architect of the 24 January 1980 liberalization and of Turkey's export-oriented turn.
Turgut Reis
Turgut Reis (طرغوت ريس), known in Europe as Dragut, was an Ottoman corsair and admiral under Suleyman the Magnificent who conquered Tripoli from the Knights of Malta in 1551.
Turgut Uyar
Turgut Uyar, full name Ahmet Turgut Uyar, was a Turkish poet and civil servant, a leading figure of the İkinci Yeni movement that reshaped Turkish poetry from the mid-1950s.
Turhan Hatice Sultan
Turhan Hatice Sultan (ترهان خديجة سلطان) was valide sultan of the Ottoman Empire, mother of Mehmed IV, and regent from 1651 until her death in 1683.
Turi King
Turi King is a Canadian-born British geneticist best known for leading the genetic analysis that identified King Richard III's remains, found under a Leicester car park in 2012.
Turia (river)
Turia (Túria), river of eastern Spain rising in Valencia and Cuenca provinces and flowing to the Mediterranean at Valencia; diverted south of the city by the Plan Sur after the deadly 1957 flood, leaving the old bed as the Turia Gardens park.
Turia Pitt
Turia Pitt (born 1987) is an Australian mining engineer turned athlete, author, and motivational speaker, burned over 65 percent of her body in the 2011 Kimberley Ultramarathon grassfire, who later completed the Ironman World Championships in Kona.
Turin
Turin (Torino), capital of Piedmont at the Dora Riparia-Po confluence; Savoy ducal capital from 1563, Italy's first capital 1861-64, Fiat/Stellantis industrial city, Mole Antonelliana, 862,999 residents (2024).
Turin Erotic Papyrus
The Turin Erotic Papyrus (Papyrus Turin 55001) is a fragmentary Ramesside Egyptian papyrus in the Museo Egizio, Turin, showing satirical animal scenes and twelve erotic scenes with captions.
Turin King List
The Turin King List, also called the Turin Canon, is a hieratic Egyptian papyrus listing rulers and their reign lengths, now held in Turin's Museo Egizio.
Turin Papyrus Map
The Turin Papyrus Map, also called the Turin Gold Mining Papyrus, is an ancient Egyptian map of the Wadi Hammamat gold-mining district, drawn around 1150 BC.
Turin Strike Papyrus
The Turin Strike Papyrus records the work stoppages of the tomb builders of Deir el-Medina over unpaid rations in year 29 of Ramesses III, around 1158 BCE.
Turin-Milan Hours
The Turin-Milan Hours is a partially destroyed illuminated manuscript of prayers and masses, begun around 1385 and divided today among Turin, the Louvre, and the Getty Museum.
Turin–Lyon high-speed railway
The Turin–Lyon high-speed railway, also called the Lyon–Turin railway, is a 270-kilometer passenger and freight line under construction between Lyon, France, and Turin, Italy, whose centerpiece is the 57.5-kilometer Mont Cenis base tunnel.
Turing (microarchitecture)
Turing, also known as Nvidia Turing, is a GPU microarchitecture announced by NVIDIA in August 2018 that was the first to use GDDR6 memory and powers the GeForce RTX 20 series.
Turing Award
The Turing Award is an annual computing prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery since 1966 and widely called the Nobel Prize of Computing.
Turing completeness
Turing completeness, also known as computational universality, is the property of a computational system that can simulate any Turing machine, so it can compute anything computable given unbounded memory and time.
Turing degree
A Turing degree is an equivalence class of sets of natural numbers under relative computability, the central object of computability theory, with the halting problem at degree 0'.
Turing Enterprises, Inc.
Turing Enterprises, Inc., known as Turing, is a Palo Alto, California technology company founded in 2018 by Jonathan Siddharth and Vijay Krishnan, supplying coding and data work to AI labs.
Turing jump
The Turing jump of a set X is the halting problem relative to X, a set computably enumerable from X but strictly harder to decide than X.
Turing machine
A Turing machine, also called an automatic machine or a-machine, is an abstract model of computation introduced by Alan Turing in 1936 to define what it means to compute.