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Twilight: 2000
Twilight: 2000 (トワイライト：2000) is a post-apocalyptic military tabletop RPG by Frank Chadwick, first published by GDW in 1984 (62,037 copies by 1987) and revived in 2021 by Free League using a step-dice Year Zero Engine, set in an alternate 2000 where the Cold War went hot.
Twilio
Twilio is an American cloud communications company headquartered in San Francisco. Founded in 2008, it lets software developers add messaging, voice, and email to applications through APIs.
Twill
Twill, also known as twill weave, is one of the three fundamental textile weaves, alongside plain and satin, showing diagonal lines; denim, gabardine, serge, and chino are twills.
Twin
Twins: two offspring from one pregnancy, either monozygotic (identical, one egg splits, 3-4 per 1,000 births) or dizygotic (fraternal, two eggs, runs in families). Also the basis of twin studies estimating heritability.
Twin anemia-polycythemia sequence
Twin anemia-polycythemia sequence (TAPS), a chronic fetofetal transfusion disorder of monochorionic twins causing anemia in one twin and polycythemia in the other without amniotic fluid discordance; occurs spontaneously (3–5%) or after laser surgery for TTTS (2–16%), diagnosed by MCA-PSV criteria.
Twin boundary
A twin boundary is a planar crystal defect separating two crystal regions whose lattices are mirror images; a special, low-energy grain boundary, it blocks dislocations and strengthens metals.
Twin cities
Twin cities are neighboring cities forming one urban unit commercially but not politically; the term also names Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, paired since the 1890s across the Mississippi River, with a 2019 metro population near 4,000,000.
Twin Cities PBS
Twin Cities PBS (TPT), also known as Twin Cities Public Television, is a nonprofit broadcaster in Saint Paul, Minnesota operating KTCA-TV and KTCI-TV, on air since 1957.
Twin deficits
The twin deficits hypothesis holds that a government budget deficit causes or systematically accompanies a current account deficit, a term coined for the United States in the early 1980s.
Twin Delayed DDPG
Twin Delayed DDPG (TD3) is an off-policy actor-critic reinforcement learning algorithm for continuous action spaces, introduced in 2018 by Scott Fujimoto as a repair of DDPG's overestimation problem.
Twin Dragons (双龙会)
Twin Dragons (双龙会) is a 1992 Hong Kong action comedy directed by Tsui Hark and Ringo Lam. Jackie Chan plays identical twin brothers separated at birth.
Twin Earth thought experiment
The Twin Earth thought experiment is a philosophical argument by Hilary Putnam, introduced in 1973, showing that meaning depends on factors outside the speaker's head.
Twin Falls, Idaho
Twin Falls, Idaho: south-central Idaho city on the Snake River, founded 1904-05 on the Carey Act Twin Falls irrigation tract; eighth largest Idaho city, Magic Valley hub, home of Shoshone Falls.
Twin films
Twin films, also called twin movies or the twin film phenomenon, are two or more films with strikingly similar plots released in close succession by different studios, from the 1913 Ivanhoe pairs to Deep Impact/Armageddon and Antz/A Bug's Life.
Twin flame
A twin flame is a New Age concept of one soul split into two bodies at creation, destined to reunite; the modern doctrine was codified in 1999.
Twin Flames Universe
Twin Flames Universe is an online spiritual community founded by Jeff and Shaleia Divine in 2017, teaching that each person has one divinely assigned twin flame.
Twin Galaxies
Twin Galaxies is an American organization that tracks and adjudicates video game world records, founded by Walter Day as an Ottumwa, Iowa, arcade in 1981 and recognized by Guinness World Records.
Twin Groves wind farm
Twin Groves wind farm is a 396-megawatt onshore wind farm in eastern McLean County, Illinois, with 240 turbines; when its first phase opened in 2007 it was described as the nation's second largest wind farm.
Twin Haven
Twin Haven Capital Partners is a Westport, Connecticut-based special-situations investment manager founded in 2009 by Robert Webster and Paul Mellinger after spinning out of Pequot Capital.
Twin Health
Twin Health is a Mountain View, California digital health company founded in 2018 by Jahangir Mohammed, whose Whole Body Digital Twin AI platform targets type 2 diabetes and obesity.
Twin Metals
Twin Metals is a mining company, owned by Chile's Antofagasta, proposing an underground copper, nickel, and cobalt mine near Ely, Minnesota, contested over the Boundary Waters.
Twin Metals Minnesota
Twin Metals Minnesota LLC is a mining development company, wholly owned since 2015 by Chilean copper producer Antofagasta, proposing an underground copper-nickel mine near Ely, Minnesota, whose federal leases were canceled in 2022.
Twin model
The twin model is a study design in genetics and epidemiology that compares identical and fraternal twins to estimate how much genes and environment shape traits and disease risk.
Twin paradox
The twin paradox is a special relativity thought experiment where a spacefaring twin returns younger than the stay-at-home twin, confirmed by flown atomic clocks in 1971.
Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks is an American ABC serial created by David Lynch and Mark Frost (April 1990–June 1991), mixing soap opera and crime thriller in FBI Agent Dale Cooper's investigation of Laura Palmer's murder; it seeded prestige TV, a 1992 film, and the 2017 revival The Return.
Twin Peaks (restaurant chain)
Twin Peaks is an American sports bar restaurant chain founded in 2005 in Lewisville, Texas, with about 115 locations known for made-from-scratch food, 29-degree draft beer, and wall-to-wall televisions in a rustic lodge setting.
Twin Peaks (season 3)
Twin Peaks (season 3), also known as Twin Peaks: The Return, is the 18-part 2017 Showtime revival written by David Lynch and Mark Frost and directed entirely by Lynch, set 25 years after the original cliffhanger and nominated for nine Emmy awards.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is David Lynch's 1992 prequel film to Twin Peaks, covering the Teresa Banks murder and Laura Palmer's last seven days. Written with Robert Engels, it flopped and was booed at Cannes before critical reappraisal.
Twin Ports
The Twin Ports are Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, sharing one natural harbor at the western tip of Lake Superior; together the Port of Duluth-Superior is the Great Lakes' largest port by tonnage, moving about 33 million short tons yearly, led by iron ore, coal, and grain.
Twin Pregnancy (concept)
Twin pregnancy, a multiple pregnancy carrying two fetuses, classified by chorionicity (DCDA, MCDA, MCMA); affects about 1 in 60 pregnancies, with higher preterm birth, TTTS, and growth-restriction risks than singleton pregnancy.