List of acronyms: T

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter T.

For the purposes of this list:

  • acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome, pronounced to rhyme with cars
  • initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee
  • pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
(a) = acronym, e.g.: SARS – (a) severe acute respiratory syndrome
(i) = initialism, e.g.: CD – (i) compact disc
(p) = pseudo-blend, e.g.: UNIFEM – (p) United Nations Development Fund for Women
(s) = symbol (none of the above, representing and pronounced as something else; for example: MHz – Megahertz)

(Main list of acronyms)

TA
  • ta – (s) Tamil language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • Ta – (s) Tantalum
  • TA – (i) Target Acquisition – Teaching Assistant – (s) Tera-ampere – (i) Territorial Army (UK) – (s) Tristan da Cunha (ISO 3166 digram)
  • TAA – (i) Transparency Anti-Aliasing – (a) Trans Australia Airlines
  • TAACOM – (p) U.S. Theater Army Area Command
  • TAADCOORD – (p) Theatre Army Air Defence Co-ordinator
  • TAAR – (i) Trace Amine-Associated Receptor
  • TAC – (a) U.S. Tactical Air Command (1946–1992)
  • TACAMO – (p) Take Charge and Move Out (U.S. military)
  • TACAN – (p) Tactical Air Navigation
  • TACC – (i) Tactical Air Control Centre – (USAF) Tanker Airlift Control Center
  • TACCO – (p) Tactical Coordinator
  • TACCSF – (i) U.S. Theater Aerospace Command & Control Simulation Facility
  • TACDAR – (p) Tactical Detection And Reporting
  • TACP – (i) Tactical Air Control Party – Technology Applications Certification Program
  • TACSOP – (p) Tactical SOP (Standing Operating Procedure)
  • TADIL – (p) Tactical Digital Information Link
  • TADL – (a) Tactical Air Data Link ("taddle")
  • TADSS – (i) Training Aids, Devices, Simulators, and Simulations
  • TAF - (i) Trading Activity Fee assessed by FINRA to recover the costs of supervising and regulating firms.
  • tah – (s) Tahitian language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • TAI – (i) Target[ed] Area of Interest
  • TAJ – (i) Tom and Jerry
  • TAJT – (i) Tom and Jerry Tales
  • TALES – (a) Technical Advice and Lexicon for Enabling Simulation
  • tam – (s) Tamil language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • TAN – (s) Tanzania (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
  • TANJ – (a) There Ain't No Justice (used as expletive in the Ringworld novels)
  • TANP – (i) Terrain-Aware Network Planner
  • TANSTAAFL – (a) There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (coined by author Robert A. Heinlein in his The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
  • TAPPS – (a) Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools
  • TARDIS – (a) Time And Relative Dimension In Space (from Doctor Who)
  • TARP – (a) Transparency Accountability Rights for Parents (coined by Karen Plumridge, founder of Black Ribbon Gold Heart)
  • TAROT – (a) Télescope à action rapide pour les objets transitoires (French, "Transient Object Rapid Action Telescope")
  • TAS – Tasmania (postal symbol)
  • TASER – (a) Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle
  • TASM – (i) Tactical Air-to-Surface Missile
  • tat – (s) Tatar language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • TAT – (i) Tourism Authority of Thailand
  • TATP – (p) TriAcetone TriPeroxide
  • TATT – (i) Tired All The Time (medical diagnosis in-joke)

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TE
  • te – (s) Telugu language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • Te – (s) Tellurium
  • TE – (i) Tactical Exploitation – (p) Testosterone to Epitestosterone ratio – (i) Tight end (American football; position generally not used in modern Canadian football)
  • TEAL – (a) Tasman Empire Airways Limited
  • Team – (a) Together everyone achieves more
  • TEAMS – (a) The East African Marine System (fiber optic cable)
  • TED – (a) Technology Entertainment Design prize
  • TEETH – (a) Tried Everything Else, Try Homeopathy (medical diagnosis in-joke)
  • tel – (s) Telugu language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • TEL – (a/i) Transporter, Erector and Launcher
  • TELAR – (a) Transporter, Erector, Launcher And Radar
  • TEMO – (a) Training, Exercise, and Military Operations
  • TENCAP – (p) Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities
  • TER's(Stargate) – Transphase Emission Rods
  • TERS – (i) Tactical Event Reporting System
  • TES – (i) Tactical Event System
  • TEST – (a) Thesaurus of Engineering and Scientific Terms
  • TEU – (i) Twenty-foot equivalent unit (cargo capacity)
  • TeVeS – (p) Tensor Vector Scalar theory

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TI
  • ti – (s) Tigrinya language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • Ti – (s) Tebi – Titanium
  • TI – (s) Tajikistan (FIPS 10-4 country code) – (i) Thermal Imaging – Threat Identification – Training Instructor – Texas Instruments
  • TIA – (i) Total Information Awareness initiative
  • TIA – (i) Transient Ischemic Attack
  • TIALD – (i) Thermal Imaging and Airborne Laser Designation
  • TIAA-CREF – (i, pronounced as "T-I-A-A-cref") Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association – College Retirement Equities Fund
  • TIBS – (a) Tactical Information Broadcast System
  • TIC – (a) Troops In Contact
  • TID – (p) Target Identification – (i) ter in die (Latin, "three times daily")
  • TIGERS – (a) Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing System
  • TIM – (a) Technical Information Memorandum – Technical Interchange Meeting – Toxic Industrial Material – Telecom Italia Mobile
  • TIMS – (a) Tactical Internet Management System – The Institute of Management Sciences – The International Molinological Society – Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner – Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry – Travel Information Management Services – Tuberculosis Information Management System
  • TINC – (a) There Is No Cabal
  • TINY – That Is, Not You (internet slang)
  • TIP – (a) Thermal Identification Panel
  • tir – (s) Tigrinya language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • tits – Toes in the Sand

TJ

TK
  • tk – (s) Turkmen language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • TK – (s) Terakelvin – Tokelau (ISO 3166 digram)
  • TKBL – (i) Türkiye 1. Kadınlar Basketbol Ligi, the Turkish-language name of the Turkish Women's Basketball League
  • TKL – (s) Tokelau (ISO 3166 trigram)
  • TKM – (s) Turkmenistan (ISO 3166 trigram)

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TN

TO

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TQ
  • TQ – (i) Top Qualifier (similar to Pole Position in car racing)

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TS

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TV

TW

TX
  • TX – (s) Texas (postal symbol) – Transmit – Turkmenistan (FIPS 10-4 country code)
  • TXV – Thermostatic Expansion Valve

TY
  • ty – (s) Tahitian language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • TYT – Take Your Time – Internet chat abbreviation

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References
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  2. its-chemistry: February 2006: integrated marketing experiences Archived 2007-04-23 at the Wayback Machine
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