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Trishira Trishira, that is, one having three heads, was an asura (a demon), and reference to him is found in the Ramayana. He was one of the seven sons of Ravana, and his other brothers were Indrajit, Prahasta, Atikaya, Akshayakumara, Devantaka and Narantaka.
Trishula A Trishula (Sanskrit त्रिशूल) is a type of traditional trident in some parts of India, seen as part of traditional religion, but which can also be used as a lethal weapon. This is the weapon wielded by Hindu God, Lord Shiva.
Trisil A Trisil is an electronic component designed to protect electronic circuits against overvoltage. Unlike a Transil it acts as a crowbar device, switching on when the voltage on it exceeds its breakover voltage.
Triskelion Triskelion (or triskele, from Greek τρισκελής "three-legged") is a symbol consisting of three bent human legs, or, more generally, three interlocked spirals, or any similar symbol with three protrusions and a threefold rotational symmetry (without any reflection symmetries).
Trismus Trismus (Greek τρισμος, trismos, "a grinding") is a pathological, sustained spasm of the neck and masseter (jaw) muscles that can make it difficult or impossible to open the mouth. It is most often associated with tetanus.
Trisodium phosphate Trisodium phosphate (TSP), available at most hardware stores in white powder form, is a cleaning agent and degreaser, commonly used to prepare household surfaces for painting. It can also be called trisodium orthophosphate and has the chemical formula Na3PO4.
Trisonic Trisonic is a company that makes electrical components, including some types of electrical conduction cables. They manufacture audio and video cables, some audio cassettes, TV antennas, electrical plug cords and related products.
Trispzest Trispzest is a fictional lightsaber combat fighting style found rarely in the Star Wars multi-media franchise. A combination of elements of Form VII and traditional S'kytri aerial duelling, Trispzest was a type of aerial lightsaber combat originally developed by the airborne Force-sensitive Majestrix of Skye, Kharys.
Tristan Tristan (Latin/Brythonic: Drustanus; Welsh: Drystan; Portuguese: Tristão; Spanish: Tristán; also known as Tristran, Tristram, etc.) is one of the main characters of the Tristan and Iseult story, a Cornish hero and one of the Knights of the Round Table featuring in the Matter of Britain.
Tristan & Isolde (film) Tristan & Isolde is a 2006 German/British/American film based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Iseult. It was produced by Ridley Scott (who had been working on an adaptation since the mid-seventies) and Tony Scott, directed by Kevin Reynolds and stars James Franco and Sophia Myles.
Tristan and Iseult The legend of Tristan and Iseult is an influential romance and tragedy, retold in numerous sources with as many variations. The tragic story of the adulterous love between the Cornish knight Tristan (Tristram) and the Irish princess Iseult (Isolde, Yseut, etc.
Tristan Albatross The Tristan Albatross (Diomedea dabbenena) is a large seabird from the albatross family. One of the great albatrosses of the genus Diomedea, it was only recognised by some authorities as a full species in 1998.
Tristan Corbière Tristan Corbière (July 18, 1845 – March 1, 1875), born Édouard-Joachim Corbière, a poet from Brittany who wrote in the French language, was born at Coat-Congar, where he lived most of his life and where he died.
Tristan Downe-Dewdney Tristan Alexander Downe-Dewdney is the president and founder of the Canadian National Federation, a minor Canadian advocacy organization. This group actively promotes Canadian sovereignty, electoral reform, ethics in government, and responsible business practices.
Tristan Dowse Tristan Dowse (June 26, 2001-) (original and restored name Irwin) was the child at the center of a controversial international adoption case involving Ireland and Indonesia. He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia and adopted at the age of two months by Irishman Joe Dowse and his Azerbijani wife Lala.
Tristan Emmanuel Tristan Alexander Emmanuel is the founder and President of the Equipping Christians for the Public-square Centre. He was an Orthodox Presbyterian Church minister based in Canada, who changed his Ministerial credentials when he departed from the pastorate.
Tristan Gale Tristan Gale (born August 10, 1980) is a US athlete, who took the first women's Olympic skeleton gold in her first Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City (2002). Tristan dyed her hair with streaks of red, white and blue for the 2002 Olympics.
Tristan Lake Leabu Tristan Lake Leabu is an American child actor who made his debut playing the part of Jason White, Lois Lane's son, in the 2006 film Superman Returns. He considers Johnny Depp his role model, and in a televised interview he stated that it was watching Depp that inspired him to become an actor.
Tristan Murail Tristan Murail (born March 11, 1947 in Le Havre, France) is a French composer associated with the "spectral" technique of composition (along with Jonathan Harvey and the late Gérard Grisey), this involving a special emphasis on timbre and overtones as a basis for harmonic structure.
Tristan Park Tristan Park was formed in October 1986 by songwriters Brian Coombes, Chuck Dyac, and Marc Larochelle. Early Tristan Park sets included their theatrical/musical production, "The Screams for an Absent Dawn.
Tristan Peersman Tristan Peersman (born September 28, 1979) is a Belgian football goalkeeper currently playing at Willem II Tilburg. He also played for the Belgium national football team but is no longer part of the team since he made a lot of errors both with his club and the national team.
Tristan Prettyman Tristan Prettyman (born May 23, 1982) is a singer-songwriter and former Roxy model from San Diego, California. She is signed to Virgin Records, and put out her first major label album twentythree on August 2, 2005.
Tristan und Isolde Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde) is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the romance by Gottfried von Strassburg, which in turn was based on the story of Tristan and Isolde as told in French by Thomas of Britain. It was composed between 1857 and 1859 and received its first performance, conducted by Hans von BĂĽlow, in Munich on 10 June 1865.
Tristan Wilds Tristan Wilds (born Tristan Paul Mack Wilds on July 15, 1989 in Staten Island, New York) is an African-American actor currently guest-starring on the HBO original series The Wire as Michael Lee. Tristan started acting at age seven; however, it was not until 2003 that he began acting professionally.
Tristania Tristania is a monotypic genus in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, native to New South Wales, Australia, closely related to Callistemon. The genus had a number of species, but some have been reclassified as Lophostemon and Tristaniopsis.
Tristar 64 The Tristar 64 is an unlicensed add-on for the Nintendo 64 (N64) video game console. Produced in Hong Kong by Future Laboratory, the Tristar 64 features two additional cartridge ports which are designed to accept cartridges created for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES, a.
Tristar-class cruiser The Tristar-class cruiser was a common medium fleet starship in the fictional Robotech universe, one of the few classes of vessel that was shared between both the Robotech Expeditionary Force and the Army of the Southern Cross. The class leader, UES Tristar, was Major General Rolf Emerson's flagship during the Second Robotech War, and was destroyed when she rammed a Robotech Masters' Mothership.
Tristesse de la Lune Tristesse de la Lune is a German two member band, founded by Kati Roloff and Gini Martin, previously known as the female vocalists in Blutengel. Both left Blutengel at the end of 2001 by personal reasons, and as they said, "BE was becoming too cliché", and then, they formed this project.
Tristia Tristia ('Sadness') is a work of poetry, in five books, written by the Roman poet Ovid at some time after he was banished from Rome in AD 8. It uses the elegiac couplet, a meter suitable for lamenting the misery of exile on the bleak edge of the Euxine, and holds out the poet's hopes for alleviation of his punishment.
Tristimulus The tristimulus values of a test color are the amounts of the three primary colors in a three-component color model needed to match that test color. The tristimulus values are most often given in the CIE 1931 color space, in which they are denoted X, Y, and Z.
Tristimulus (audio) The concept of tristimulus originates in the world of colour, describing the way three primary colours can be mixed together to create a given colour. By analogy, the musical tristimulus measures the mixture of harmonics in a given sound, grouped into three sections.
Triston Jay Amero Triston Jay Amero (who goes by the names of Lestat Claudius de Orleans y Montevideo (the name of the main character in Anne Rice's novels) and John Scheda) is an American terrorist who was arrested after the hotel bombings that killed two people and wounded seven on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 in Bolivia. He and his pregnant accomplice, Alda Riveiro, have been formally charged with murder and are being held in a maximum security prison near La Paz.
Tristram (Diablo) The town of Tristram existed in the original Diablo (computer game) as a place for players to buy and sell items they needed, as well as learn more about the storyline through quests and gossip. In Diablo II, the player visits Tristram shortly after Diablo's forces had decimated most of the small town.
Tristram Fychan Tristram Fychan (or Tristram the Younger), son of Tristram Fawr was the fourth and last king of Lyonesse according to Welsh legend. He was drowned when Lyonesse sank beneath the waves, shortly after the Battle of Camlann in 537.
Tristram Speedy Tristram Charles Sawyer Speedy (also known as Captain Speedy) (1836-1911) was one of the more renowned adventurers and explorers of the Victorian age, a legend in his own time and a gifted linguist (like his father), a commander of armies and the confidant of monarchs and maharajas.
Tristram Woodhouse Tristram Woodhouse (born June 13, 1974 in Western Australia) is a former field hockey forward from Australia, who made his debut for the Men's National Team in 2003 in a friendly against The Netherlands. That was in the second match of the test series in Canberra.
Tristubh Tristubh is the name of a Vedic meter of 44 syllables (four padas of eleven syllables each), or any hymn composed in this meter. It is the most prevalent meter of the Rigveda, accounting for roughly 40% of its verses.
TriStar Television TriStar Television (first spelled Tri-Star) was an American television production company that was launched in early 1987 by TriStar Pictures (the studio which was then-currently owned by Columbia Pictures, CBS, and HBO). In December 1987, TriStar Television was bought by Columbia Pictures Television, and merged to create the new CPT, although Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures were sold in 1989 to Sony Corporation of Japan.
Trita Trita "the Third" is a minor deity of the Rigveda, mentioned 41 times. He is associated with the Maruts, with Vayu and with Indra, like Indra, or as Indra's assistant, fighting Tvastar, Vrtra and Vala.
Tritare A tritare is a guitar (invented in 2003 by Samuel Gaudet and Claude Gauthier of the University of Moncton) of a family of stringed instruments which use Y-shaped strings, instead of the usual string-shaped strings; Y-shaped strings produces sounds which are harmonic integer multiples, but also nonharmonic sounds more akin to those produced by percussion instruments. Gaudet contends this allows for greater possibility (although the value of this greater possibility is questioned ).
Tritec engine In 1997, Chrysler Corporation and Rover Group (then a subsidiary of BMW) formed Tritec, a joint venture to design a new small straight-4 engine for small cars. They built a factory in Curitiba, Brazil to manufacture the engine.
Trithereon In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Trithereon is the god of Individuality, Liberty, Retribution, and Self-Defense. His holy symbol is the Rune of Pursuit, which resembles the triskelion.
Triticeae Triticeae is a tribe within the Pooideae subfamily of grasses that includes genera with several common domesticated species. These majors cultivars are found in taxonomy of: Wheat (See Wheat Taxonomy), Barley, and Rye, but other genera also have cultivars, some for human consumption and others used for animal feed or rangeland protection.
Tritium Tritium (symbol T or 3H) is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. The nucleus of tritium (sometimes called triton) contains 1 proton and two neutrons, whereas the nucleus of protium (the most abundant hydrogen isotope) contains no neutrons.
Triton College Triton College is a two-year community college located in River Grove, Illinois, a suburb 14 miles (23 km) northwest of downtown Chicago. Triton College offers an education as well as career-oriented learning opportunities.
Triton Fountain Bernini's baroque Triton Fountain (Italian Fontana del Tritone) is located in Piazza Barberini, Rome, near the entrance to the Palazzo Barberini (now housing the Galeria de Arte Antica), which Bernini helped redesign for his patron Maffeo Barberini, who had become pope as Urban VIII. It is a few blocks from Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane.
Triton II The Triton II (Official name 82430HX) was a version of Intel's Triton processor chip set with all the features of the Triton I plus support for ECC, parity RAM, two-way SMP, USB, and Concurrent PCI to improve speed.
Triton Regional High School Triton Regional High School ("Tri-High") is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving 1,523 students in grades 9-12 from three communities in Camden County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Black Horse Pike Regional School District. Students in the school are sent from Bellmawr, Gloucester Township and Runnemede.
Triton Senior High School Triton High School, located in Dodge Center, Minnesota was formed in 1990 when the communities of Dodge Center, West Concord and Claremont, combined to create one junior high school and one senior high school. Each town continued to operate separate elementary schools.
Tritonal Tritonal is a mixture of 80% TNT and 20% aluminum powder, used in several types of ordnance eg air-dropped bombs. The aluminum improves the brisance of the TNT - the speed at which the explosive develops its maximum pressure.
Tritone substitution In jazz music, a tritone substitution is the use in a chord progression of a dominant seventh chord (major/minor seventh chord) that is three whole steps (a tritone) away from the original dominant seventh chord. For example, Db7 would be the tritone substitution for G7.
Tritrichomonas foetus Tritrichomonas foetus is a single celled flagellated protozoan parasite that is known to be a pathogen of the bovine reproductive tract as well as the intestinal tract of cats. In cattle, the organism is transmitted to the female vagina and uterus from the foreskin of the bull where the parasite is known to reside.
Trittau Trittau is a municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, located 30 km east of Hamburg. With a population of 7,500 (as of 2002), it is the economical and administrative center of Amt Trittau, which is part of the Stormarn district.
Trittys Trittyes (singular trittys) were population divisions in ancient Attica, established by the reforms of Cleisthenes in 508 BC. The name means "thirtieth," and there were in fact thirty trittyes in Attica.
Tritylodon Tritylodon was a tritylodont, one of the most advanced group of cynodonts. Some people think that tritylodonts included the ancestors of mammals, but others consider the trithelodontids to be ancestral to mammals.
Tritylodontidae The Tritylodontidae ("three knob teeth", named after the shape of animal's teeth) were small to medium-sized, highly specialized and extremely mammal-like cynodonts. They were the last family of the non-mammalian synapsids.
Triumph (comics) Triumph is a fictional character, a former superhero in the DC Comics universe who first appeared in Justice League America #92 (September 1994), and was created by Christopher Priest and Luke Ross. He is not to be confused with fellow DC Comics property, the Golden Age hero Captain Triumph.
Triumph 1300 The Triumph 1300 was a medium/small 4-door saloon car made by Standard Triumph under the control of Leyland Motors. Produced from 1965 and intended as a replacement to the popular Triumph Herald, it was re-engineered in the 1970s to become the Dolomite range.
Triumph 2000 The Triumph 2000 was a mid-sized automobile produced in Coventry by the Triumph Motor Company between 1963 and 1977. As well as in the United Kingdom, the car was built in Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.
Triumph Acclaim The Triumph Acclaim was a front wheel drive medium-sized family car made by British Leyland (BL) from 1981 to 1984. It was based on the Honda Ballade and used a Honda-designed engine, but met United Kingdom component-content requirements.
Triumph Dolomite The Triumph Dolomite originally appeared in 1936 as a luxury sporting saloon until 1939 when the Triumph Motor Company folded. The Triumph name was bought by the Standard Motor Company and the Dolomite name was re-born as a popular small to medium sized four door saloon car, made by Triumph under the British Leyland organisation from 1972 until 1980.
Triumph Films Triumph Films (aka: Triumph Releasing Corporation) is a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment geared towards theatre and direct-to-video film production and distribution. It was originally founded in 1982 as a joint venture between Columbia Pictures and the French company Gaumont to distribute foreign films in the US.
Triumph Herald The Triumph Herald was a small two-door car introduced in 1959 by the Standard-Triumph Company. Body design was by the Italian stylist Michelotti, and the car was offered in saloon, convertible, coupé, van and estate variants.
Triumph Hurdle The Triumph Hurdle is a Grade 1 National Hunt hurdle horse race in the United Kingdom for four-year-old novices run over a distance of 2 miles 1 furlong (3,420 metres) on the New Course at Cheltenham Racecourse during the Cheltenham Festival in March. There are eight hurdles to be jumped in the race.
Triumph in the Skies Triumph In The Skies is a 2003 drama series produced by the Hong Kong TV network TVB. The show revolved around the theme of aviation, following the lives and loves of the pilots, staff, and flight attendants of the fictional Solar Airways, as well as the workers of Chek Lap Kok airport.
Triumph Italia The Triumph Italia 2000 Coupé was built between 1959 and 1962, during which time 329 cars were produced. Designed by Giovanni Michelotti, the TR3 chassis and mechnical components were supplied by the Triumph Motor Company in the United Kingdom, and built by Alfredo Vignale in Turin, Italy.
Triumph of Death Triumph of Death is a demo album by Hellhammer released in 1983. It was recorded in the bands rehearsal room on portable equipment sometime in early 1983, along with the material for the "Death Fiend" demo, by producer Rol Fuchs.
Triumph Slant-4 engine The Triumph Slant-4 is an engine developed by Triumph. According to Triumph historians Graham Robson and Richard Langworth in Triumph Cars, the complete story, the engine was developed in-house by a design team led by Lewis Dawtry and Harry Webster.
Triumph Sprint ST The Triumph Sprint ST is a sport-touring motorcycle similar in design and function to the Honda VFR800, BMW K1200S and Yamaha FJR1300. These bikes are characterized by a fully-faired sport-bike look with a longer wheel base, more upright riding position and a higher capacity fuel tank.
Triumph Super 7 The Triumph Super 7 was a car manufactured from 1924 to 1926 by the Triumph Motor Company. It was produced as a response to the success of the Austin  7 and was Triumph's first car to be made in large numbers.
Triumph Thunderbird The Triumph Thunderbird was a British motorcycle introduced in 1949 and produced until 1966. To capture the American market, it used a variant of the Speed Twin's parallel twin engine, bored out from 500 cc to 650 cc to give the added horsepower American customers demanded.
Triumph TR250 The Triumph TR250 was built between 1967 and 1968 for 15 months by the Triumph Motor Company in the United Kingdom, during which time approximately 8,480Original Triumph TR, Bill Piggott, ISBN 1-870979-24-9 cars were built, all of which were for the American market.
Triumph TR4 The Triumph TR4 was a sports car built in the United Kingdom by the Standard Triumph Motor Company and introduced in 1961. Code named "Zest" during development, the car was based on the chassis and drivetrain of the previous TR sports cars, but with a modern Michelotti styled body.
Triumph TR5 The Triumph TR5 was built for a 15 month period between 1968 and 1969 by the Triumph Motor Company in the United Kingdom, during which time approximately 2,947Original Triumph TR, Bill Piggott, ISBN 1-870979-24-9 cars were built.
Triumph TR6 The Triumph TR6 (1969–1976) was the best-selling Triumph in history when production ended in 1976, but was later surpassed by the TR7. More than 94,000 TR6s were built, ninety percent of them to North American specifications.
Triumph TR7 The Triumph TR7 was a sports car manufactured from September 1974 to October 1981 by the Triumph Motor Company, part of British Leyland, in the United Kingdom. It was initially made at the Speke, Liverpool factory, moving to Coventry in 1978 and finally to the Rover plant in Solihull in 1980.
Triumph-Palace Triumph-Palace (Russian: Триу́мф-Пала́с) is the name of an apartment building in Moscow. It is sometimes called the 8th Tower because it is similar in appearance to the Seven Sisters skyscrapers built in Moscow by Stalin through the 1950s.
Triumph, Idaho Triumph is an unincorporated village in the East Fork of Big Wood River, Blaine County, Idaho. Triumph was the location of the famous Triumph Mine, which closed in 1957 after a history of producing millions of dollars in Silver and Lead since its discovery in the late 19th century.
Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog Triumph the Insult Comic Dog is a puppet created and performed by Robert Smigel premiering in 1997 on NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Triumph was identified in the early appearances as a Yugoslavian Mountain Hound and he speaks with a fake Eastern European accent.
Triumphalism Triumphalism is the attitude or belief that a particular doctrine, culture, or social system is superior to and should triumph over all others. Triumphalism is not an articulated doctrine but rather a term that is used to characterize certain attitudes or belief systems by parties such as political commentators and historians.
Triumphant Quartet The Triumphant Quartet is a Southern Gospel group that performs at the Miracle Theater in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. They have been sining at the theater since 2003, when it was known as The Louise Mandrell Theater.
Triumverate Triumveratea little known and short lived punk] band from [[Western New York (formed in 1999), known mostly for their punk rock rap song, released one record entitled Hello Goodbye(2000)[before disbanding in 2001] for reasons that remain unknown to press to this day. It is of note that their most popular song, the aforementioned "Punk Rock Rap," was never recorded.
Triumvirat Triumvirat was a German progressive rock trio that formed in 1969 in Cologne, Germany. The founding members were: keyboardist/composer Hans-JĂĽrgen (later simply JĂĽrgen) Fritz , drummer/lyricist Hans Bathelt, and bassist Werner Frangenberg.
Triumvirate The term triumvirate is commonly used to describe a political regime dominated by three powerful political and/or military leaders. The arrangement can be formal or informal, and though the three are usually equal on paper, in reality this is rarely the case.
Triune Understanding Triune Understanding is a fictitious religious cult created by Kurt Busiek for volume three of the Marvel Comics Avengers series. Apparently inspired by the real-life religion of Scientology, the Triune Understanding was depicted as a fast-growing movement claiming to maximize human potential, but gradually revealed to have connections with an invading alien race.
Trivandrum Central Trivandrum Central is the biggest railway station in the state of Kerala and one of the important rail hubs in South India. Trains from here connect the city of Thiruvananthapuram(Trivandrum) to other states of India.
Trivection oven The Trivection oven is an home appliance created by General Electric, which combines heat, convection and microwaves for customized cooking. According to GE, it cooks things five times faster than a traditional oven.
Trivedi Northern and Western Indian family name reflecting the mastery of a brahmin over three of the four vedas (including the Vedic Branch he was born into). Hindu (Brahmin) name from Sanskrit trivedi ‘one that knows the three Vedas’, from tri- ‘three’ + veda ‘(sacred) knowledge’.
Trivers-Willard hypothesis In evolutionary biology, the Trivers-Willard hypothesis proposes that parents should invest more in the sex that gives them the greatest reproductive payoff (grandchildren) with increasing or "marginal" investment. The hypothesis was used to explain why Red Deer mothers would produce more sons when they are in good condition, and more daughters when in poor condition.
Trivia Trivia are unimportant (or "trivial") items, especially of information. In the late twentieth century the expression came to apply more to information of the kind useful almost exclusively for answering quiz questions.
Trivia (poem) Trivia (1716) is the name of a poem by John Gay, loosely based on the Satires of Juvenal. The full title of the poem is Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London, in three books (the whole of the poem running to just 474 lines).
Trivia Test Match Trivia Test Match is a British radio programme that aired originally during the early 1990s on BBC Radio and has subsequently been repeated more recently on BBC Radio 7. As its slogan stated, it combined trivia and the laws of cricket.
Trivial (mathematics) In mathematics, the term trivial is frequently used for objects (for examples, groups or topological spaces) that have a very simple structure. For non-mathematicians, they are sometimes more difficult to visualize or understand than other, more complicated objects.
Trivial Loot Code The Trivial Loot Code (or TLC) was an attempt to enforce a higher degree of roleplaying in the popular game EverQuest. In essence, the Trivial Loot Code made reward items from successful battles to be only retrievable by players of levels appropriate for that battle.
Trivial objections Trivial objections (also referred to as nothing but objections, barrage of objections and banal objections) is an informal logical fallacy where irrelevant and sometimes frivolous objections are made to divert the attention away from the topic that is being discussed. The word that best defines this type of argument is "quibble".
Trivial Pursuit Trivial Pursuit is a board game where progress is determined by a player's ability to answer general knowledge or popular culture questions. The game was conceived in 1979 by Scott Abbott, a sports editor for the Canadian Press and Chris Haney, photo editor for the Montreal Gazette, after finding pieces of their Scrabble game missing With the help of John Haney] and [[Ed Werner, they completed development of the game, and it was released in 1981.
Trivial representation In mathematics, in particular group representation theory, a group representation of the group G is called a trivial representation if (i) it is defined on a one-dimensional vector space V over a field K and (ii) all elements g of G act on V as the identity mapping. Given any such V, this representation always exists, and any two such representations over K are equivalent.
Trivial topology In topology, a topological space with the trivial topology is one where the only open sets are the empty set and the entire space. Such a space is sometimes called an indiscrete space, and its topology sometimes called an indiscrete topology.
Trivikram Srinivas Trivikram Srinivas(Telugu: త్రివిక్రమ్ శ్రీనివాస్) is a successful dialogue writer and director in Tollywood. He ventured into direction with the movie Nuvve Nuvve, winning critical acclaim.
Trivimi Velliste Trivimi Velliste (4 May 1947 in Tartu, Estonia) is an Estonian politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 1994 and as the Estonian Ambassador to the United Nations from 1994 to 1998. He currently is a Member of Parliament in the Riigikogu representing the Pärnumaa Electoral District.
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