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Turing pattern
A Turing pattern is a stationary, spatially periodic structure that arises spontaneously in a reaction-diffusion system, proposed by Alan Turing in his 1952 paper on morphogenesis.
Turing Quantum (图灵量子)
Turing Quantum (图灵量子) is a Chinese photonic quantum computing company founded in Shanghai in 2021 by Jin Xianmin, building programmable photonic quantum computers and photonic chips.
Turing reduction
A Turing reduction shows one decision problem is no harder than another: membership is decided by an algorithm that queries an oracle for the other problem in single steps.
Turing test
The Turing test, Alan Turing's 1950 'imitation game' from Computing Machinery and Intelligence, tests whether a text-based machine can pass as human to an interrogator; distinguished from Winograd, Lovelace, and MIST alternatives.
Turing test in popular culture
The Turing test in popular culture is the presence of Alan Turing's 1950 machine test in fiction and film, from Blade Runner's Voight-Kampff to Her and Ex Machina.
Turiostu
Turiostu (Tvriostv), a statio named only on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Tarento and Heraclea; generally identified with late-antique Metaponto at Torre di Mare, Italy, against Miller's relocation.
Turisas
Turisas is a Finnish folk and symphonic metal band from Hämeenlinna, formed in 1997 by Mathias Nygård and Jussi Wickström and known for coining "battle metal".
Turistas
Turistas, released in the UK as Paradise Lost, is a 2006 American horror-thriller directed by John Stockwell, in which stranded backpackers in rural Brazil fall victim to an organ-harvesting operation.
Turk (rapper)
Turk (Tab Virgil Jr., Young Turk) is a New Orleans rapper, member of the Hot Boys with Juvenile, B.G., and Lil Wayne; solo debut Young & Thuggin' (2001) hit #2 R&B; imprisoned 2004-2012, later independent with YNT Empire.
Turk Barrett
Turk Barrett is a Marvel Comics small-time Hell's Kitchen criminal created by Roy Thomas and Gene Colan, debuting in Daredevil #69 (1970). Known for losing fights in stolen villain suits, he appears in all six Netflix Marvel shows played by Rob Morgan.
Turk Shahi dynasty
The Turk Shahi dynasty (तुर्क शाही वंश) was a Buddhist dynasty founded by the Turk Barhatigin, ruling Gandhara and Kabulistan in modern Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Türk Telekom
Türk Telekom (Türk Telekomünikasyon A.Ş.) is Türkiye's incumbent fixed-line telecommunications operator, established in 1994, privatized in 2005, and serving 57.2 million subscribers across fixed and mobile services.
Türk Yurdu
Türk Yurdu (Turkish Homeland) is a Turkish nationalist ideas magazine first published in Istanbul in November 1911, described as the longest-lived journal championing the Turkism movement.
Türk–Byzantine embassies
The Türk–Byzantine embassies were diplomatic missions between the First Türk Khaganate and the Byzantine Empire from 568 to 576, launched to open direct silk trade bypassing Persia.
Turkana
Turkana County, capital Lodwar, is Kenya's second-largest county (77,000 km²) in the arid northwest, home to Lake Turkana and the Turkana pastoralists, with Kenya's highest poverty rate and severe drought vulnerability.
Turkana Boy
Turkana Boy, KNM-WT 15000, also called Nariokotome Boy, is a 1.6-million-year-old Homo erectus skeleton found 1984 at Nariokotome, Kenya, by Kamoya Kimeu; 40% complete, 1.6 m, 880 cc brain.
Turkcell
Turkcell, incorporated in Türkiye in 1993, is a converged telecommunications and technology provider serving 43.8 million subscribers and the only Turkish company listed on the NYSE.
Turkdean
Turkdean Roman Villa: substantial Romano-British courtyard villa near Chalkhill Barn, Turkdean, Gloucestershire, occupied late 2nd to 4th century AD, excavated live by Time Team 1997-1998, scheduled monument 1408772.
Turkestan
Turkestan (Turkistan) is the historical name for Central Asia's Turkic-inhabited lands, divided into Western (Russian), Eastern (Chinese, now Xinjiang), and Afghan Turkestan; the name was abolished in 1924.
Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
The Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (TASSR) was an autonomous republic within the Russian SFSR, proclaimed in Tashkent in 1918 as the first Soviet state formation in Central Asia.
Turkestan Autonomy
The Kokand Autonomy, formally the Turkestan Autonomy (Turkiston Muxtoriyati), was a Muslim-led government proclaimed in Kokand in November 1917 as the first attempt at national statehood in Russian-ruled Turkestan.
Turkestan Governorate-General
The Turkestan Governorate-General was the administrative unit through which the Russian Empire governed its Central Asian conquests from 1867 to 1917, with its capital at Tashkent.
Turkestan Legion
The Turkestan Legion, or Turkistanische Legion, was a Wehrmacht unit of Turkic former Red Army prisoners, mostly Central Asians, that fought the USSR in World War II.
Turkestan–Siberian Railway
The Turkestan–Siberian Railway (Turksib) is a 1,452 km railway from Semipalatinsk to Lugovaya through Alma-Ata, built in 1927–1930 as a flagship project of the Soviet First Five-Year Plan.
Turkey
Turkey (Türkiye) is a transcontinental OECD, G20, and NATO member spanning Eastern Thrace and Anatolia. Key facts: 85.5 million people, $1.32 trillion GDP (17th largest), 1923 republic founded by Atatürk, presidential system since 2017, 2023 earthquakes, and democratic backsliding under Erdoğan.
Turkey (bird)
Turkey (bird), Meleagris gallopavo, the large North American game bird of Galliformes domesticated in Mexico over 2,000 years ago and again in the US Southwest; males weigh 15-25 pounds, gobble audibly a mile away, and the wild population rebounded from a few thousand birds to about 7 million.
Turkey and weapons of mass destruction
Turkey and weapons of mass destruction: Turkey (Türkiye) possesses no WMD and is party to the NPT, CTBT, CWC, and BWC, but hosts about 50 U.S. B61 bombs at Incirlik under NATO nuclear sharing and has debated nuclear options.
Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest
Turkey (Türkiye) at Eurovision: TRT entered 34 contests from its 1975 debut to 2012, won once with Sertab Erener's "Everyway That I Can" (2003), hosted Istanbul 2004, and withdrew after 2012 over rule dissatisfaction and government objections.
Turkey in the Straw
Turkey in the Straw, also known as Old Zip Coon, is a 19th-century American folk tune. It was copyrighted in 1861 and is famous for its use in Steamboat Willie.
Turkey national football team
Turkey (Türkiye) men's national football team, the Crescent-Stars, run by the Turkish Football Federation in UEFA. Third at the 2002 World Cup, EURO 2008 semi-finalists, qualified for the 2026 World Cup under Vincenzo Montella.