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Toshiki Hirano Toshiki Hirano (平野俊貴 Hirano Toshiki), formerly Toshihiro Hirano (平野俊弘 Hirano Toshihiro, born on October 3, 1956 in Tokyo, Japan) is an anime director, animator, and character designer. His wife is animator and mangaka Narumi Kakinouchi.
Toshiki Uryuu Toshiki Uryuu (雨流俊樹 Uryū Toshiki) is a fictional character in the manga/anime series GetBackers. In the original Japanese version, he's voiced by Konishi Katsuyuki, who also voiced Akutsu Shunsuke, the villain of act 4.
Toshiko - Mariano Quartet (in West Side) The Toshiko - Mariano Quartet (in West Side) is a jazz album by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi and alto saxophonist Charlie Mariano and was recorded in Tokyo in 1963 and released on the Nippon Columbia / Takt label. A slightly different version titled, East and West was released by Victor (Japan).
Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band The Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band was a 16 piece jazz big band created by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi and tenor saxophone / flutist Lew Tabackin in Los Angeles in 1973. In 1982 the principles moved from Los Angeles to New York city and re-formed the group with new members under the name, The Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin.
Toshiko Akiyoshi Recital Toshiko Akiyoshi Recital by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi is a jazz album recorded in Tokyo in February of 1961. This edition, along with a previously released "special edition", Long Yellow Road, containing most of the same tracks from the same recital, was released in Japan.
Toshiko Akiyoshi Solo Live at the Kennedy Center Toshiko Akiyoshi Solo Live at the Kennedy Center is a live solo album recorded by jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi. It was recorded at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC and released in 2000 by Nippon Crown Records.
Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio Live at Blue Note Tokyo '97 Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio featuring Motohiko Hino - Live at Blue Note Tokyo '97 is a jazz trio album recorded by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi featuring drummer Motohiko Hino. It was recorded in 1997 in the Tokyo Blue Note club and was released by Nippon Crown Records.
Toshiko At Mocambo The album Toshiko at Mocambo (full title, Toshiko at Mocambo, The Historic Mocambo Session '54, Volume 3) was recorded by jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi at the Mocambo club in Yokohama, Japan in the summer of 1954. All of the tracks from this recording are also included on the Polydor compilation, The Complete Historic Mocambo Session '54.
Toshiko Meets Her Old Pals The jazz album Toshiko Meets Her Old Pals (Japanese Title: 敏子 / 旧友に会う) was recorded by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in Tokyo in March of 1961 and released by King Records in Japan. All tracks from this album as well as 1961's Long Yellow Road and Toshiko Akiyoshi Recital were later combined on a single album released by King Jazz as 1961 - Toshiko Akiyoshi, a History of King Jazz Recordings.
Toshima Island Toshima (利島), a volcanic island in the Izu Islands (伊豆諸島) and administered by the Tokyo (東京都) Metropolitan government, Japan, lies south of Tokyo and east of the Izu Peninsula, Shizuoka prefecture. Toshima forms part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park.
Toshima, Tokyo (ward) is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. Located in the north-west corner of the ward area, Toshima is bordered by the cities of Nerima, Itabashi, and Kita in the north, and Shinjuku and Bunkyo in the south.
Toshinari Maeda Marquis Toshinara Maeda ( Maeda Toshinara Kōshaku; 5 June 1885 – 5 September 1942), was a Japanese general and the first commander of the Japanese forces in northern Borneo (Sarawak, Brunei, Labuan, and North Borneo) in World War II.
Toshinori Yonekura born October 21, 1972, is a Japanese R&B male singer originally from Osaka Prefecture who debuted in 1992 with his debut single "Mikan no Android" (未完のアンドロイド Incomplete Android). His bloodtype is B and his favorite singer is Donny Hathaway.
Toshio Fujiwara Toshio Fujiwara (藤原 敏男 Fujiwara Toshio, born March 3, 1948) is a well known Japanese former kickboxer who teaches at his own gym, Fujiwara Gym, in Tokyo. His most famous student in recent years is Satoshi Kobayashi, but many other well known kickboxers and mixed martial artists have also trained with him.
Toshio Iwai is a Japanese interactive media and installation artist who has also created a number of commercial videogames. In addition he has worked in television, music performance, museum design and digital musical instrument design.
Toshio Laiseni Toshio Laiseni (born June 19, 1985 in Nuku'alofa, Tonga) is a Tongan rugby league player for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the National Rugby League competition. His position of choice is either at fullback or on the wing.
Toshio Maeda Toshio Maeda (前田俊夫) (1953 - ) is a Hentai mangaka who was most prolific in the 80s and 90s. Maeda's works include the well known La Blue Girl, Adventure Kid, Demon Beast Invasion, Demon Warrior Koji and, his most famous work, Urotsukidoji (Legend of the Overfiend).
Toshio Mori Toshio Mori (1910-1980) was born in Oakland, California and grew up in San Leandro. During World War II, he and his family were interned at Topaz Relocation Center in Utah, where Mori edited the journal Trek for a year.
Toshio Nakanishi Toshio Nakanishi aka Tycoon-to$h (Born Jan 13 1956 in Tokyo) is a musician and an artist who is best known as the founding member of Plastics (group) in 1976. He was a part of techno pop fever in Japan and first pioneer of Japanese Hip Hop scene with Major Force.
Toshio Ohta Toshio Ohta, Petty Officer First Class (= Ittōheisō/一等兵曹), the name is sometimes spelled "Ota", † October 21, 1942, was a Japanese fighter ace during World War II. In the summer of 1942, at the age of 22, he flew a Mitsubishi A6M Zero with the Lae-based Tainan kokutai (air group).
Toshio Saeki Toshio is a character from The Grudge. He is the son of Kayako Saeki and Takeo Saeki and was drowned by his father in their bath-tub after Takeo killed his mother, his son, the family cat and himself in a fit of rage after he discovered in Kayako's journal how she had been cheating on him.
Toshio Sakai Toshio Sakai (酒井淑夫, 1940 – 1999), from Meiji University, a photographer for United Press International, won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1968, for a photograph depicting the Vietnam War. He was the first to receive that award.
Toshiro Kandagawa Toshiro Kandagawa (神田川 俊郎, alternately translated Tosio Kanndagawa), born in 1939 in Kyoto Prefecture in Japan, is a renowned contemporary chef, known primarily for this strict following of classic Japanese cooking styles and disdain for modern and "fusion" cooking.
Toshiya Fujita (director) Toshiya Fujita (藤田敏八, Fujita Toshiya) (1932–1997) was a Korean-born Japanese film actor, writer and director. He is credited with 29 films but is best known for Lady Snowblood and Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance.
Toshiyuki Kuroiwa Toshiyuki Kuroiwa (born February 27, 1969 in Tsumagoi, Gunma) is a former ice speed skater from Japan, who represented his native country in three consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1992 in Albertville, France. There he won the silver medal in the men's 500 metres.
Toshiyuki Shimada TOSHIYUKI SHIMADA is Music Director of the [Yale Symphony Orchestra] of Yale University since 2005. He is also Music Director Laureate of the [Portland Symphony Orchestra], in Portland, Maine, which he was Music Director from 1986 to 2006.
Toshiyuki Watanabe Toshiyuki Watanabe (渡辺 俊幸 Watanabe Toshiyuki) (born February 3, 1955, in Nagoya, Japan) is a Japanese musician and composer who has scored several films and anime, most notably the Mothra films in the 1990s. He is the son of legendary tokusatsu and anime composer, Michiaki Watanabe (or Chuumei Watanabe)
Toshizo Nishio Toshizo Nishio(西尾 寿造, Nishio Toshizo) (1881 – 1960) was a Japanese general, considered to be one of the Japanese Imperial Army's most successful and ablest strategists during the Second Sino-Japanese War, who commanded the Japanese Second Army during the first years of the China Incident.
Toschi Station In the Star Wars universe, a location on the planet Tatooine. Not much is known about Toschi Station; during Star Wars IV: A New Hope, Luke Skywalker complains when his adoptive uncle, Owen Lars, tells him he must clean up newly-acquired droids R2-D2 and C-3PO: "Aw, but Uncle Owen, I was going to go into Toschi Station and pick up some power converters!
Tosia Altman Tova (Tosia) Altman (1918-1943) worked with Mordechai Anielewicz as a member of the ZOB during the Warsaw ghetto uprising. She initially worked as a courier, making contact with Jewish resistance groups outside of the ghetto and providing them with updates on resistance clashes, as well as providing educational material that was banned by the occupying Nazi forces.
Toss Across A game distributed by Mattel in which participants play Tic tac toe by lobbing small beanbags at targets in an attempt to change the targets to their desired letter. As in traditional tic-tac-toe, the first player to get three of their letters in a row wins the game.
Toss bombing Toss bombing (sometimes known as loft bombing) is a method of bombing where the attacking aircraft pulls upwards and releases its bomb load, giving the bomb additional forward velocity. Although this might seem the direct opposite to dive bombing, where the plane pitches downwards to aim at its target, toss bombing is often performed with a short dive before the bomber raises its nose and releases its bomb.
Toss juggling Toss juggling is the form of juggling which is most recognisable as 'juggling'. Toss juggling is at once: a performance art, a sport, a form of exercise and meditation, a recreational pursuit, and often simply child's play.
Toss the Feathers Toss The Feathers were formed in 1987 after Dave Smylie met Peter Carberry. They were joined by Michael McGoldrick, Angela Usher and Martin Moylan, a session at The Bridgewater Bar in Stockport followed and the group became a legend on the Celtic Rock circuit.
Tossa de Mar Tossa de Mar is a holiday resort located in Catalonia on the Costa Brava, about 95 kilometres north of Barcelona and 100 kilometres south of the French border. It is accesible through Girona airport, some distance north.
Tostado, Santa Fe Tostado is a city in the northwest of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, 334 km north-west from the provincial capital. It has about 14,000 inhabitants as of the and it is the head town of the Nueve de Julio Department.
Tosu Station Tosu Station in Tosu city, Saga prefecture is the point where the Kagoshima Main Line and the Nagasaki Main Line intersect. Close to Tosu Station is a large shopping mall and a nice park with a kids playground, lots of trees and a pond, nice place to have a picnic lunch.
Tosyl A tosyl group (abbreviated Ts) combines the toluene and sulfonyl functional groups. The sulfonyl group consists of a hexavalent sulfur atom double bonded to two oxygen atoms and, in the tosylate group, an aromatic ring; an alkyl substitutent on the R group forms a sulfonate ester.
Tot Watchers Tot Watchers is the final cartoon in the Hanna-Barbera era of Tom and Jerry. It was created in 1957 and released in theatres on August 1, 1958, and was directed and produced by Tom and Jerry's creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, who by this time had taken on the role of producer alongside their usual directorial role, in the wake of Fred Quimby's retirement.
Total (album) Total is the self-titled debut album from the R&B trio Total. The album reached it's peak at #23 on the US Billboard 200, went platinum and spawned the singles "Can't You See", "No One Else", Kissin' You" & "Do You Think About Us/When Boy Meets Girl".
Total Annihilation: The Core Contingency The Core Contingency is a 1998 expansion to the popular 1997 real-time strategy computer game Total Annihilation. It contains extra units and maps, as well as a campaign of 26 missions and a long-awaited map editor.
Total body irradiation Total Body Irradiation (TBI) is a radiotherapy technique used to ablate the bone marrow and immune system prior to bone marrow transplantation or peripheral blood stem cell transplantation. It may be used as part of high-dose treatment of some leukaemias and lymphomas.
Total conversion In science, or more accurately in science fiction, the phrase total conversion refers to the idea of converting 100% of mass into energy. The first reference to such a process may have occurred in the classic Robert A.
Total correlation The total correlation (Watanabe 1960) is one of several generalizations of the mutual information. It is also known as the multivariate constraint (Garner 1962) or multiinformation (Studený & Vejnarová 1999).
Total cost of ownership Total cost of ownership (TCO) is a financial estimate designed to help consumers and enterprise managers assess direct and indirect costs related to the purchase of any capital investment, such as (but not limited to) computer software or hardware. A TCO assessment ideally offers a final statement reflecting not only the cost of purchase but all aspects in the further use and maintenance of the equipment, device, or system considered.
Total Communication Total Communication (TC) is an approach to deaf education that aims to make use of a number of modes of communication such as signed, oral, auditory, written and visual aids, depending on the particular needs and abilities of the child.
Total Control Total Control® is the trade name for the telecommunications infrastructure equipment also known as TC1000 or TC2000. It was originally manufactured by US Robotics as an analog modem platform until the takeover by 3Com Corporation in 1997.
Total Control Racing Total Control Racing (TCR) was a toy brand from Ideal which debuted in the late 1970s, similar to slot car sets, with approximately HO scale cars (and smaller scale semi-trailer trucks) that operated on a slotless track.
Total data quality management Total Data Quality Management is a research project started in 1991 at MIT with the objective of applying the principles and practices of Total Quality Management to data management. The project is sponsored by several corporations, research groups, US government departments, the US Department of Defense, and the US Navy.
Total depravity Total depravity (also called total inability and total corruption) is a theological doctrine that derives from the Augustinian doctrine of original sin and is advocated in many Protestant confessions of faith and catechisms, including those of Lutheranism,1 Anglicanism and Methodism,2 Arminianism, and Calvinism.3 The doctrine interprets the Bible as teaching that, as a consequence of the Fall of Man, every person born into the world is enslaved to the service of sin and, apart from the grace of God, is utterly unable to choose to follow God or choose to accept salvation as it is freely offered.
Total dissolved solids Total dissolved solids is an expression for the combined content of all inorganic and organic substances contained in a liquid which are present in a molecular, ionized or micro-granular (colloidal sol) suspended form. Generally the operational definition is that the solids (often abbreviated TDS) must be small enough to survive filtration through a sieve size of two micrometres.
Total Defence Total Defence is a concept introduced by the government of Singapore in 1984 to improve readiness in matters related to the defence and national security of Singapore, and is partly based on similar concepts in Switzerland, Denmark and Sweden. This concept rests on the notion that the defence of the country cannot rely only on the regular armed forces.
Total electronic angular momentum quantum number In atomic physics, the total electronic angular quantum momentum numbers parameterize the total angular momentum of a given electron, by combining its orbital angular momentum and its intrinsic angular momentum (i.e.
Total energy In classical physics, the total energy of an object is the sum of its potential energy and its kinetic energy. Note that since all other forms of energy can be derived from these two types, the total energy is effectively the theoretical maximum amount of energy that could be taken from the object.
Total Eclipse (album) Total Eclipse is an album by jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, released on the Blue Note label in 1968. The album features Hutcherson's first recordings with saxophonist Harold Land, who would become a regular collaborator with Hutcherson throughout the late 1960s.
Total Eclipse (film) Total Eclipse is a 1995 movie directed by Agnieszka Holland that depicts a fictionalized account of the passionate and violent homosexual relationship between the two 19th century French poets, Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis) and Arthur Rimbaud (Leonardo DiCaprio), a time when both of them experienced a height of creativity. It is rated R in the USA for strong sexuality and nudity, language, and some startling violence.
Total Eclipse of the Heart "Total Eclipse of the Heart" is a power ballad written, composed, and produced by Jim Steinman, inspired by the classic novel, Wuthering Heights. It was originally performed by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler in 1983.
Total factor productivity Total-factor productivity (TFP) addresses any effects in total output not caused by inputs or productivity. For example, a year with unusually good weather will tend to have higher output, because bad weather hinders agricultural output.
Total force policy The total force policy was adopted in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and involves treating the three components of the US Army - the Regular Army, the Army National Guard and the Army Reserve as a single force. The primary architect of the total force policy was General Creighton Abrams when he was Chief of Staff of the Army.
Total Fertility Rate The total fertility rate (TFR, also called fertility rate or total period fertility rate (TPFR)) of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if she were to experience the current age-specific fertility rates through her lifetime. It is obtained by summing the age-specific rates for a given time-point.
Total Football In football (soccer), Total Football is a system where a player who moves out of his position is replaced by another from his team, thus retaining their intended organizational structure. In this fluid system no footballer is fixed in his or her intended outfield role; anyone can be successively an attacker, a midfielder and a defender.
Total Fucking Darkness (band) Total Fucking Darkness is a Welsh heavy metal band from Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales in the UK The bands original name was Underdose until late 2005 where the band decided to change the name to that of Total Fucking Darkness, often abbreviated to TFD. The band are unsigned, though release their albums on member Sean Jenkins’ personal “Nitemare” imprint label.
Total group Total group (also total clade, stem clade, or panstem clade) is a term used in systematics to refer to a crown clade plus its stem group. It thus refers to all organisms sharing more recent ancestry with a group of living organism (extant members of the crown clade) than with any other living organisms.
Total harmonic distortion The total harmonic distortion, or THD, of a signal is a measurement of the harmonic distortion present and is defined as the ratio of the sum of the powers of all harmonic components to the power of the fundamental.
Total Hi Def Total Hi Def discs, also called a Total HD or THD discs, is an optical disc that will contain both rival high-definition optical disc formats, Sony's Bluray and Toshiba's HD DVD. Officially announced at Warner Bros / Warner Home Video's press conference held at CES 2007 on the 8th of January 2007.
Total chances In baseball statistics, total chances (TC), also called chances offered, represents the number of plays in which a defensive player has participated. It is calculated as follows: Total Chances = assists + putouts + errors.
Total Chaos Total Chaos is a series of simple turn based strategy game / card game / board games where the player(s) take the role of wizards who battle with one another to rule the world. The world is a 17 x 14 matrix of squares.
Total inorganic carbon The total inorganic carbon (CT, or TIC) or Dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) is the sum of inorganic carbon species in a solution. The inorganic carbon species include carbon dioxide, carbonic acid, bicarbonate anion, and carbonate anion.
Total institution A total institution, also referred to as a voracious institution, as defined by Erving Goffman, is an institution where all the aspects of life of individuals under the institution is controlled and regulated by the authorities of the organization. Total institutions are a social microcosmos dictated by hegemony and clear hierarchy.
Total internal reflection Total internal reflection is an optical phenomenon that occurs when light strikes a medium boundary at a steep angle. If the refractive index is lower on the other side of the boundary no light can pass through, so effectively all of the light is reflected.
Total Ionic Strength Adjustment Buffer Total Ionic Strength Adjustment Buffer (TISAB) is a buffer solution which increases the ionic strength of a solution to a relatively high level. This is important for potentiometric measurements, including ion selective electrodes, because they measure the activity of the analyte rather than its concentration.
Total Linhas Aereas Total Linhas Aereas is an airline based in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. It operates regional passenger and cargo charter and air taxi services, as well as night mail flights on behalf of the Brazilian post office.
Total Living Network Total Living Network (TLN) is a religious broadcasting channel based in Chicago which carries a wide variety of family and ministry programs, including Ten Keys for Unlocking the Bible; Newsmakers, where leading Christian experts debate issues of interest to the Church; Inspiration Sensation, a Christian music talent competition; Total Living with Jerry Rose, the network's flagship talk show featuring one-on-one conversations with notable guests; and Aspiring Women, an award-winning women's talk show produced by TLN. TLN is also involved in the production of original specials, such as The Da Vinci Code Deception, and is committed to producing new types of Christian programming to reach seekers and to build up the Church.
Total Logistic Control Total Logistic Conrtol is a wholly owned subsidiary of Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based Supervalu, is a supermarket retailer Which operates more than 2,500 grocery stores and 700 drug stores in 37 states with approximately 230,000 associates.
Total market coverage A total market coverage, or TMC, product is a supplement to a newspaper that is delivered free of charge to all households in a newspaper's market or a specific portion or portions of the market. Total Market Coverage products are meant to attract readers to subscribe or purchase copies of the main newspaper and also provide an additional outlet for advertisers.
Total metabolism Total metabolism (also called metabolism) is all of a certain living organism's chemical processes. The organism's metabolism can be dichotomized into the synthesis of organic molecules (anabolism) and their breakdown (catabolism).
Total Maximum Daily Load A Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) is a value of the maximum amount of a pollutant that a body of water can receive while still meeting water quality standards; alternatively TMDL is an allocation of that pollutant deemed acceptable to the subject receiving waters.
Total Mesorectal Excision Total Mesorectal Excision (or TME) is a standard technique for treatment of colorectal cancer, devised some 20 years ago. A significant length of the bowel around the tumour is removed, and the removed lymph system scrutinised for cancerous activity (see lymphadenectomy).
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) is an American professional wrestling promotion founded by Jeff Jarrett and his father Jerry Jarrett in May 2002. The current majority share owner is Panda Energy International.
Total order In mathematics, a total order, linear order, simple order, or (weak) ordering on a set X is any binary relation on X that is antisymmetric, transitive, and total. This means that if we denote one such relation by ≤ then the following statements hold for all a, b and c in X:
Total Olympics medal count The total medal count for all Olympic Games, including both Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games, from 1896 to 2006 is tabulated below. These counts do not include the totals from the 1906 Intercalated Games, which are no longer recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as official Games.
Total Organic Carbon Analyzer A total organic carbon analyzer determines the amount of carbon in a water sample. By acidifying the sample and flushing with nitrogen or helium the sample removes inorganic carbon, leaving only organic carbon sources for measurement.
Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico Total Overdose is an action/adventure 3rd-person shooter video game that was developed by Deadline Games and published by Sci Entertainment in Europe and by Eidos in North America. It contains a demo for Tomb Raider: Legend on the PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions.
Total parenteral nutrition Total parenteral nutrition (TPN), is the practice of feeding a person intravenously, circumventing the gut. It is normally used following surgery, when feeding by mouth or using the gut is not possible, when a person's digestive system cannot absorb nutrients due to chronic disease, or, alternatively, if a person's nutrient requirement cannot be met by enteral feeding (tube feeding) and supplementation.
Total peripheral resistance Total peripheral resistance refers to the cumulative resistance of the thousands of arterioles in the body, or the lungs, respectively. It is approximately equal to the resistance of the arterioles, since the arterioles are the chief resistance vessels in the body.
Total permanent disability insurance Total Permanent Disability (TPD) is a phrase used in the insurance industry. Generally speaking it means that because of a sickness or injury a person is unable to work in their own or any occupation for which they are suited by training, education or experience.
Total personal income Total Personal Income is defined by the United States' Bureau of Economic Analysis as income received by persons from all sources. It includes income received from participation in production as well as from government and business transfer payments.
Total player rating Total player rating (TPR) is a metric for measuring the value of baseball players, and to enable players to be compared against each other even when they played for different teams, at different positions, and in different eras. It was developed by sabermetrician Pete Palmer and was popularized in the Total Baseball series of encyclopedias during the 1980s.
Total Party Kill A Total Party Kill (TPK) or Total Party Wipe (TPW) is what happens when, in the course of a role-playing game adventure, the entire party of player characters gets killed. While many games permit other player characters to resurrect deceased comrades in some fashion, a TPK usually results in the end of the campaign or the players making new characters -- or both, as the case may be.
Total Peripherals Group Total Peripherals Group (TPG) is a private Australian IT company. Over the past 18 years, TPG claims to have grown to become one of the top 10 Internet Service Providers in Australia (see Broadband Internet Access, Australia), and has recently started to build their own ADSL2+ broadband network via Line Spectrum Sharing.
Total Perspective Vortex The Total Perspective Vortex, in the fictional world of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is the most horrible torture device to which a sentient being can be subjected. Located on Frogstar World B, it shows its victim the entire unimaginable infinity of the universe with a very tiny marker that says "You Are Here" which points to a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot.
Total Power Exchange Total Power Exchange or TPE is a derivative of the concept of power exchange in a D/s relationship. The term refers to a relationship where the Dominant has complete authority and influence over the submissive's life, making the majority of decisions.
Total quotient ring In mathematics, the total quotient ring is a construction that generalizes the notion of the field of fractions of a domain to rings that may have zero divisors. The idea is to formally invert as many elements of the ring as possible without trivializing the ring.
Total Quality Management Total Quality Management (TQM) is a management strategy aimed at embedding awareness of quality in all organizational processes. TQM has been widely used in manufacturing, education, government, and service industries, as well as NASA space and science programs.
Total return swap Total return swap, or total rate of return swap, or TRORS, a contract in which one party receives interest payments on a reference asset plus any capital gains and losses over the payment period, while the other receives a specified fixed or floating cash flow unrelated to the credit worthiness of the reference asset, especially where the payments are based on the same notional amount. The reference asset may be any asset, index, or basket of assets.
Total revenue test In economics, the Total Revenue Test is a means for determining whether demand is elastic or inelastic. If an increase in price causes an increase in total revenue, then demand can be said to be inelastic, since the increase in price does not have a large impact on quantity demanded.
Total Rational! Total Rational! is a Rational Youth compilation album, released (without authorisation from the band) by the Dutch label Rams Horn, who had previously released the Cold War Night Life album and some singles on license from YUL records.
Total Re-Carl Total Re-Carl is an episode of the Adult Swim show Aqua Teen Hunger Force that aired during the show's second season. The episode premiered on October 5, 2003, and is featured on Aqua Teen Hunger Force Volume 3.
Total Recall Total Recall is an American science fiction film released on June 1, 1990, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon, Jon Povill and Gary Goldman. It won a Special Achievement Academy Award for its visual effects.
Total Recall 2070 Total Recall 2070 was a short-lived science fiction TV series first broadcast in 1999 in Canada and later the same year on Showtime. It was later syndicated in the United States with some editing to remove scenes of nudity and violence.
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