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Truman H. Aldrich Truman Heminway Aldrich (born October 17, 1848 in Palmyra, New York, died April 28, 1932 in Birmingham, Alabama) was a civil engineer, a mining company executive, and briefly served in the United States House of Representatives and as Postmaster of Birmingham.
Truman O. Angell Truman O. Angell (June 5, 1810 – October 16, 1887), served many years as Church Architect for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and was one of the original Mormon Pioneers, entering the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847.
Truman Smith Truman Smith (November 27, 1791 – May 3, 1884) was an American lawyer and politician from Connecticut who served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. His uncle was Nathaniel Smith.
Truman Washington Dailey <B>Truman Washington Dailey, also known as Mashi Manyi ("Soaring High") and Sunge Hka ("White Horse"), was the last native speaker of Otoe-Missouria (Baxoje-Jiwere-Nyut'chi), a Native American language. He was born on October 19, 1898 in the Oklahoma territory.
Trumba Trumba Corporation is an American computer software company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States that was founded in October 2003 by Jeremy Jaech, Ted Johnson, and Peter Mullen. The three founded Trumba after their previous company, Visio Corporation, was acquired by Microsoft Corporation in 2000.
Trummy Young James "Trummy" Young (born January 12, 1912 in Savannah, Georgia, died September 10, 1984 in San Jose, California) was a trombonist in the Swing Era. Although he was never really a star or a bandleader himself, he did have one hit with his version of "Margie," which he played and sang with Jimmie Lunceford's Orchestra.
Trump (card game) Trump or trumps or trump suit are terms used in trick-taking games, traditionally called whist-style games although the best-known example may now be bridge, where cards of one suit rank above all non-trump cards, and automatically prevail over them, losing only to a higher trump if one is played to the same trick.
Trump (magazine) Trump was a glossy magazine of satire and humor, mostly in the forms of comic-strip features and short stories. It was edited by Harvey Kurtzman and published by Hugh Hefner, with only two issues produced in 1957.
Trump coup The trump coup is a contract bridge coup used when the hand on lead (typically the dummy) has no trumps remaining, while the next hand in rotation has only trumps, including a high one that would have been onside for a direct finesse if a trump could have been led. The play involves forcing that hand to ruff, only to be overruffed.
Trump Entertainment Resorts Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc. is a holding company which owns, operates and manages casinos/hotels in the United States The company was formed in 2005 as a result of the restructing of its predecessor Trump Resorts and Casinos.
Trump International Hotel & Residence (Phoenix) In 2004, prominent New York real estate developer Donald Trump proposed a $200 million luxury hotel-condominium development at 26th Street and Camelback Road in the highly upscale Camelback Corridor (near the Arizona Biltmore Hotel and the Biltmore Fashion Park shopping center) of Phoenix.
Trump International Hotel and Tower Trump International Hotel and Tower is the name associated with a series of high end condominium buildings developed either by Donald Trump or by parties who have licensed his name. These properties generally have both hotel condominium and residential condominium accommodations.
Trump International Hotel and Tower (Dubai) The Trump International Hotel & Tower is a proposed skyscraper hotel to be built at the trunk of the The Palm Jumeirah. It will be a 48 storey mixed-use hotel and residential building with an estimated cost of U.
Trump International Hotel and Tower (Fort Lauderdale) Donald Trump will build a 24 story, 298 room $200 million hotel condominium tower on 200 feet of Fort Lauderdale's oceanfront at North Fort Lauderdale Beach Boulevard, just a few blocks from Las Olas Boulevard. : The Trump International Hotel will be located on North Atlantic Boulevard between Las Olas and Sunrise Boulevards and is named for famed real estate developer Donald Trump.
Trump International Hotel and Tower (Honolulu) On May 31, 2006 the Associated Press announced that famed real estate developer Donald Trump has plans for a luxury hotel-condominium tower as part of an $800 million Waikiki Beach Walk redevelopment project in Honolulu, Hawaii. Briefly, the 350-foot tall, 775,000 square-foot tower with about 460 hotel-condo units is expected to include parking, retail and dining space, as well as a library, wine cellar, lobby bar, cafe, fitness center, spa and separate residential and hotel lobbies.
Trump International Hotel and Tower (Las Vegas) The Trump International Hotel & Tower Las Vegas is a 64 story hotel-condominium (condo-hotel) under construction on Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada named for famed real estate developer Donald Trump. It is being built across the street from Wynn Las Vegas on 3.
Trump International Hotel and Tower (New York) The Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York City is a high-rise building, located in Manhattan at Columbus Circle, at the intersection of Central Park West and 59th Street/Central Park South. It is owned by The Trump Organization and features hotel rooms and residential condominiums.
Trump International Hotel and Tower (SoHo) On June 6, 2006 Braden Keil of the New York Post broke the story that famed real estate developer Donald Trump has proposed a 45-story luxury high-rise condominium & hotel at 246 Spring Street, between Varick Street and Sixth Avenue. The story reports that Donald Trump, Jr.
Trump International Hotel and Tower (Toronto) Trump International Hotel & Tower, Toronto is a planned mixed-use highrise building being built by and named for famed real estate developer Donald Trump in Toronto, Ontario. The tower would be located at the heart of the financial district, at 311 Bay Street, on the southeast corner of Bay and Adelaide.
Trump Ocean Resort (North Baja) On October 4, 2006 The Trump Organization CEO Donald J. Trump and Los Angeles-based real estate development and investment company Irongate announced plans for Trump Ocean Resort Baja Mexico, a luxury condominium-hotel resort located in North Baja, Mexico, just 30 minutes south of downtown San Diego.
Trump promotion Trump promotion is a technique in contract bridge where the defenders create an otherwise non-existing trump trick for themselves. The most common type of trump promotion occurs when one defender plays a side suit through, in which both the declarer's hand and the other defender are void:
Trumpet Major Trumpet Major is an appointment in British Army cavalry regiments or the Royal Horse Artillery, held by a Sergeant (or Corporal of Horse in the Household Cavalry) or a more senior non-commissioned officer or Warrant Officer. His job is to supervise the training and deployment of trumpeters who blow daily duty and ceremonial calls.
Trumpet Manucode The Trumpet Manucode, Manucodia keraudrenii is a medium-sized, up to 31cm long, bird of paradise with an elongated horn-like head tufts and loose neck feathers. The plumage is of blackish glossed blue, green and purple.
Trumpet vine The Trumpet vine or Trumpet creeper (Campsis radicans), also known as "Cow itch vine," is a large and vigorous woody vine of the family Bignoniaceae, notable for its showy trumpet-shaped flowers. It is native to woodlands of the southeastern United States, but popular for arbors across the warmer parts of the country.
Trumpet Voluntary Trumpet Voluntary is the title of several English keyboard pieces from the Baroque era. Most commonly played on the organ, they generally consist of a slow introduction followed by a flamboyant faster section with the right hand playing fanfare-like figures over a simple accompaniment in the left hand.
Trumpeter Hornbill The Trumpeter Hornbill, Ceratogymna bucinator is a medium-sized hornbill, with length between 58 to 65 cm, characterized by a large grey casque on the bill, smaller in females. The eyes are brown or red, with pink surrounding skin.
Trumpeter Islets (Tasmania) Trumpeter Islets () is a group of two islets totalling about 1 hectare in area, located approximately 6 km north of the entrance to Port Davey, Tasmania. It is a breeding site for Little Penguin, Short-tailed Shearwater, Pacific Gull, Silver Gull, Sooty Oystercatcher, Black-faced Cormorant and Caspian Tern..
Trumpeter Swan The Trumpeter Swan (Cygnus buccinator) is the largest native North American swan and only swan species found solely in North America. It is rivaled in size only by the introduced Mute Swan, which is native to Eurasia, and usually is longer-bodied, exceptionally reaching 6 feet in length.
Trumpington, Cambridgeshire Trumpington is a village within the boundaries of the city of Cambridge, UK, of which it is effectively a suburb. It's located on the south-west side of the city and borders Cherry Hinton to the east, Grantchester to the west and Great Shelford and Little Shelford to the south-east.
Trumps of Doom Trumps of Doom is the first book in the second Chronicles of Amber series by Roger Zelazny; and the sixth book overall. Whereas the first series was narrated by Corwin, this series is narrated by his son, Merlin.
Truncatable prime 357686312646216567629137 is the largest prime number that is left-truncatable in decimal, meaning that the number, as well as all the numbers obtained by successively removing the first digit at the left of the number are prime: 357686312646216567629137, 57686312646216567629137, 7686312646216567629137, ..., 9137, 137, 37 and 7 are all prime.
Truncated 16-cell In geometry, the truncated 16-cell or cantic tesseract is a uniform polychoron (4-dimensional uniform polytope) which is bounded by 24 cells: 8 regular octahedra, and 16 truncated tetrahedra. It is related to, but not to be confused with, the 24-cell, which is a regular polychoron bounded by 24 regular octahedra.
Truncated mean A truncated mean or trimmed mean is a statistical measure of central tendency, much like the mean and median. It involves the calculation of the mean after discarding given parts of a probability distribution or sample at the high and low end, and typically discarding an equal amount of both.
Truncated spurs Truncated spurs occur when the action of a glacier does not follow the original course of the river that wound round interlocking spurs, but, as the force of a glacier is much more powerful and cannot flow as freely around corners, it can carve its way though the rock cutting off the edges of interlocking spurs to form truncated spurs. Hanging valleys are found in between truncated spurs from a side view as the Hanging valleys join the main glaicer from an angle.
Truncated triakis tetrahedron The truncated triakis tetrahedron is a convex polyhedron with 16 faces: 4 sets of 3 pentagons arranged in a tetrahedral arrangement, with 4 hexagons in the gaps. It is constructed from taking a triakis tetrahedron by truncating the order-6 vertices.
Trundholm municipality Trundholm municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in West Zealand County on the northwest coast of the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in Denmark, in a region known as Odsherred. The municipality covers an area of 163 km², and has a total population of 11,309 (2005).
Trundle bed Trundle beds are usually considered a pair of beds, one slightly smaller than a twin bed that is on rollers or casters so that it may be put beneath the upper twin bed for storage. Trundle beds allow for two separate beds to be available when necessary, but do not require the space constantly.
Trung Sisters The Trưng Sisters, known in Vietnamese as Hai Bà Trưng (the two Trưng ladies) (c. 12 - 43 AD), are two 1st century women regarded as national heroines of Vietnam after they successfully repelled Chinese invasions for three years.
Trunch Trunch is a village and parish in Norfolk, England, situated three miles north of North Walsham and two miles from the coast at Mundesley. At the Census 2001 the village had a population of 805, and 388 households.
Trunk (motorcycle) A motorcycle trunk is a storage compartment in the vicinity of the seat, other than panniers or saddlebags. A trunk mounted above and to the rear of the seat is also called a top box or a top case, the latter term favored by BMW riders.
Trunk Records Trunk Records is an independent record label which specialises mainly in film scores, library music, sexploitation and kitsch releases. It was founded in 1995 by Jonny Trunk (born Jonathan Benton-Hughes) and has since gained a cult following as a result of the releases of much sought-after material from scores for cult films such as Deep Throat, Kes, The Wicker Man and George A.
Trunk shot The Trunk shot is a camera angle used in cinema when one or more characters need to retrieve something or someone from the trunk of a car. Though the trunk shot can be produced with great difficulty by placing the camera inside the trunk of a car and filming the action outside the trunk of the car, it usually is "cheated" by the art department by placing a trunk door and some of the trunk frame close enough to the camera to make it appear to be shot from within the trunk.
Trunk show A trunk show is a special sale in which vendors present merchandise directly to store personnel or select customers at a retail location or another unique venue. In many cases it allows store personnel to preview and/or purchase merchandise before it is made available to the public.
Trunked radio system A trunked radio system is a radio system used to maximize available capacity in a two-way radio system, usually UHF. Groups of users are given a logical talkgroup to share for their communications, rather than a dedicated radio frequency.
Trunkey Creek, New South Wales Trunkey Creek is a village located in the Central West of New South Wales, Australia in Bathurst Regional Council. It is about 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of the city of Bathurst and about 130 kilometres (82 miles) north of the city of Goulburn on the Bathurst Goulburn Road.
Trunking (auto) Trunking is the act of riding in an automobile in the trunk rather than in designated passenger positions. This dangerous and illegal activity is mainly performed by teenagers who are attempting to avoid laws which prohibit new automobile drivers from driving with passengers or if there are more passengers then seats available in the car.
Trunkline A trunkline is a designation given over a given transportation route, such as over a set of roads, and is identified as such for the purpose of providing ease with respect to guiding transportation along the route over which it covers. An example of this is a state highway such as M-60, which is located in southern Michigan and covers a series of roads such as Spring Arbor Road, Homer Road and so on.
Trunkline Pipeline Trunkline Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline which brings gas from the Gulf coast of Texas and Louisiana up through Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Kentucky to deliver gas in Illinois and Indiana. It connects to the Henry Hub.
Trunko Trunko is the nickname for an animal reportedly sighted in Margate, South Africa on October 25, 1924, according to an article entitled "Fish Like A Polar Bear" published in the December 27, 1924 edition of London's Daily Mail. The animal was reputedly first seen off the coast battling two whales, which fought the unusual creature for three hours.
Trunks (Dragon Ball) Trunks (called Chibi Trunks by many fans to distinguish him from Mirai Trunks) is a fictional character in the manga Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z, and the anime Dragon Ball/Z. He is the human/Saiyan hybrid son of Bulma and Vegeta.
Trunks Saga Trunks Saga is the name of the sixth saga of the anime Dragon Ball Z, featuring Freeza's arrival on Earth, his death by the hands of Trunks, and Trunks' warning about the Androids. The small saga contains eight episodes, and is placed between the Garlic Junior Saga and the Androids Saga.
Truphone Truphone is a Session Initiation Protocol-based fixed mobile convergence application for mass market smartphones that enable such handsets to make free and very low-cost calls using VoIP over wireless LAN. This means that, when in WiFi range, calls are routed over the internet and are much cheaper than a normal mobile phone call.
Truppführer Truppführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was first created in 1930 as a rank of the Sturmabteilung (SA), or Nazi Stormtroopers. Translated as “Troop Leader”, the rank of Truppführer evoloved from early Freikorps titles which traced their origins to World War I.
TruPrevent Technologies Introduced in 2003, TruPrevent are a set of technologies developed by Panda Software for proactive protection in home and corporate computers, as opposed to traditional antivirus products, which provide reactive protection.
Truro (ship) The Truro was the ship (from Madras) containing the first batch of 342 indentured Indian labourers to arrive in Durban on 16 November 1860. The second batch of 342 arrived in Durban on board the Belvedere (from Calcutta) 10 days later.
Truro College Truro College is located in Truro, Cornwall, in the South West of England. It has Beacon College status, recognising it as one of the best colleges in the country, and it is within the top ten in league tables compiled by The Independent and The Guardian.
Truro Parish Truro Parish, more commonly known as Truro Church was one of the largest Episcopal congregations in the state of Virginia until its December 2006 vote to separate from the Episcopal Church in the United States and become part of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA). The current Rector of Truro Church is Bishop Martin Minns with oversight of CANA in the United States and Canada.
Truro, Nova Scotia Truro (2001 population 11,457; area population 44,276) is a town in central Nova Scotia, Canada. Truro is the shire town of Colchester County and is located on the south side of the Salmon River floodplain, close to the river's discharge point into the eastern end of Cobequid Bay.
Truro, South Australia Truro (, postcode 5356, altitude 311m) is a town in South Australia, 80 km northeast of Adelaide. It is on the Sturt Highway east of the Barossa Valley near where the highway crosses the ridge of the Mount Lofty Ranges.
Trusenz Lungelo Nzama (aka Trusenz) born 1982, is a Hip Hop artist from Durban, South Africa. In 1990 Nzama was one of only 4 Black students to join the Drakensberg Boys Choir with whom he travelled extensively, even performing for Prince Edward at his private residence in London.
Truso Truso, situated on Lake Druzno, was an Old Prussian (Pomesanian) town near the Baltic Sea just east of the Vistula River. It was one of the trading posts on the Amber Road, and is thought to be the antecedent of the city of ElblÄ…g.
Truss bridge A truss bridge is a bridge composed of connected elements (typically straight) which may be stressed from tension, compression, or sometimes both in response to dynamic loads. Truss bridges are one of the oldest types of modern bridges.
Truss rod A truss rod is a guitar part used to stabilize and adjust the profile (also called the relief), of the neck. Usually it is a steel rod that runs inside the neck and has a bolt that can be used to adjust its tension.
Trust & Custody Services Bank Trust & Custody Services Bank, Ltd. (資産管ç†ă‚µăĽă“ă‚ąäżˇč¨—éŠ€čˇŚć ŞĺĽŹäĽšç¤ľ, Shisan Kanri Service Shintaku Ginko Kabushiki Gaisha) is a Japanese bank that provides asset administration for banks and insurance companies.
Trust (Megadeth song) The lead-off single from Megadeth's album Cryptic Writings, Trust was released in the summer of 1997, and it received significant airplay and MTV rotation. The song reached #5 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
Trust (Stargate) In the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1, The Trust is a shadowy interplanetary terrorist group composed of rogue ex-NID operatives and the international business and political cabal which funds them. After NID reformation efforts were instigated by NID agents such as Malcolm Barrett, the leading shadow group entitled the "Committee" was exposed and incarcerated.
Trust AM Trust AM is the operating name of the hospital radio station serving the Doncaster Royal Infirmary on Armthorpe Road in Doncaster, and the Bassetlaw District General Hospital on Blyth Road in Worksop. There are plans to extend the service to the Montague Hospital in Mexborough, which is part of the same NHS Foundation Trust.
Trust company A trust company is normally owned by one of three types of structures; (1) An independent partnership, (2) A bank or (3) A law firm, each of which specialize in being a trustee of various kinds of trusts, and managing estates.
Trust Company (band) Trust Company (also depicted as TRUSTcompany and TRUST*CO) was a four-piece music group from Montgomery, Alabama. The band was formed in 1997 under the name "41 Down", but was changed prior to the release of their first album after signing to Geffen Records – so they weren't to be confused with the popular Canadian band Sum 41.
Trust Doctor Trust Doctor or Trust Senior House Officer is a term applied to a doctor who is working in the National Health Service (NHS) in a non-training post, usually at senior house officer level. Doctors doing Trust Doctor jobs may subsequently secure an "approved post" and complete specialist training, but many others end up becoming Staff Grades or Middle Grade, career posts without specialist recongition.
Trust federation Trust federations are part of the evolving Social Web that will bring a new layer of persistent identity and trusted data sharing to the Internet. XDI and other open standard identity and data sharing protocols can handle the challenges of technical interoperability for the Social Web, but the challenge of business and social interoperability requires a new type of cooperative association similar to a credit card association.
Trust Fund Manager A trust fund manager is a supervisor for a pool of investment capital such as that held by a mutual fund, pension fund, or closed-end investment company. The fund manager trades investments on behalf of the fund owners that adhere to the stated investment objectives.
Trust instrument A trust instrument (also sometimes called a deed of trust, where executed by way of deed) is an instrument in writing executed by a settlor used to constitute a trust. Trust instruments are generally only used in relation to an inter vivos trust; testamentary trusts are usually created under a will.
Trust Indenture Act of 1939 The United States Trust Indenture Act of 1939, codified at through , regulates interstate selling (not government securities or private placements). It requires a corporation to appoint a trustee to act for the benefit of the bond holders.
Trust law In common law legal systems, a trust is a relationship in which a person or entity (the trustee) holds legal title to certain property (the trust property or trust corpus), but is bound by a fiduciary duty to exercise that legal control for the benefit of one or more individuals or organizations (the beneficiary), who hold "beneficial" or "equitable" title. The trust is governed by the terms of the (usually) written trust agreement and local law.
Trust metric In psychology and sociology, a trust metric is a measure of how a member of a group is trusted by the other members. Trust metrics may be abstracted in a manner that can be implemented on computers, making them of interest for the study and engineering of virtual communities, such as Friendster and LiveJournal.
Trust Me - I'm A Beauty Therapist Trust Me - I'm A Beauty Therapist was a Five reality television show in which eight British celebrities trained to become beauticians in a South Wales beauty salon. They had to perform such tasks as, cutting hair, giving massages, applying fake tan, giving manicures, pedicures and waxing.
Trust negotiation Trust Negotiation is an approach to gradually establishing trust between strangers online through the iterative exchange of digital credentials. In contrast to a closed system, where the interacting entities have a preexisting relationship (often proved by typing a username and password), trust negotiation is an open system, and complete strangers can build trust in one another.
Trust Oldham Trust Oldham was formed in the summer of 2003 by Alex Metcalfe and John Connolly, two lifelong Oldham Athletic fans. The trust was initially setup with the intention of creating a financial fund to help Oldham Athletic with the financial troubles it was experiencing after the departure of chairman Chris Moore.
Trust Operation Operation Trust (операция "ТреŃŃ‚") was a counterintelligence operation of the State Political Directorate (OGPU) of the Soviet Union. The operation, which ran from 1921-1926, set up a fake anti-Bolshevik underground organization, "Monarchist Union of Central Russia", MUCR (МонархичеŃкое объединение Центральной Đ ĐľŃŃии, МОЦР), in order to help the OGPU identify real monarchists and anti-Bolsheviks.
Trust the Saint Trust the Saint is a collection of short stories by Leslie Charteris, first published in 1962 by The Crime Club in the United States and by Hodder and Stoughton in the United Kingdom. This was the 35th book to feature the adventures of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint", and was published around the time the character began to receive wide recognition through the The Saint starring Roger Moore as Templar.
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI) was a United Nations trust territory in Micronesia (western Pacific) administered by the United States from July 18, 1947, comprising the former South Pacific Mandate, a League of Nations Mandate administered by Japan and taken by the U.S.
Trust-Mart Trust-Mart () is a Taiwanese-owned chain of Chinese retail supercenters. The corporation was founded in 1997 by investors based in Taiwan and as of March, 2006, has in excess of 100 stores in 20 provinces of Mainland China.
Trust-preferred security A Trust preferred security is a security possessing characteristics of both equity and debt issues. A company creates trust-preferred securities by creating a trust and issuing debt to the new entity, while the trust issues the trust preferred securities.
Trusted client In computing, a trusted client is a device or program controlled by the user of a service, but with restrictions designed to prevent its use in ways not authorised by the provider of the service. That is, a device that vendors trust and sell to the consumers they don't trust.
Trusted computing base The trusted computing base (TCB) of a computer system is the set of all hardware, firmware, and/or software components that are critical to its security, in the sense that bugs occurring inside the TCB might jeopardize the security properties of the entire system. By contrast, parts of a computer system outside the TCB supposedly cannot misbehave in a way that would leak any more privileges than was granted to them in the first place in accordance to the security policy.
Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC) is a United States Government Department of Defense (DoD) standard that sets basic requirements for assessing the effectiveness of computer security controls built into a computer system. The TCSEC was used to evaluate, classify and select computer systems being considered for the processing, storage and retrieval of sensitive or classified information.
Trusted Computing Group The Trusted Computing Group (TCG), successor to the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA), is an initiative led by AMD, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Infineon, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems to implement trusted computing.
Trusted Network Connect Trusted Network Connect or TNC is an open-architecture, by the Trusted Network Connect Sub Group (TNC-SG) of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG). It aims at enabling network operators to provide endpoint integrity at every network connection, thus enabling interoperability among multi-vendor network endpoints.
Trusted Platform Module In computing, Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is both the name of a published specification detailing a microcontroller that can store secured information, as well as the general name of implementations of that specification. The TPM specification is the work of the TPM Work Group, under the auspices of the Trusted Computing Group.
Trusted system In the security engineering subspecialty of computer science, a trusted system is a system that can be "trusted" to a specified extent to enforce a specified security policy. Originally of interest to the military community, the concept has waxed and waned over the years and is now the subject of arguably less technically rigorous attention by the Trusted Computing Group.
Trusted third party In cryptography, a trusted third party (TTP) is an entity which facilitates interactions between two parties who both trust the third party; they use this trust to secure their own interactions. TTPs are common in cryptographic protocols, for example, a certificate authority (CA).
Trustee The word trustee is a legal term that refers to a holder of property on behalf of some other beneficiary. In older legal documents and cases, a trustee is sometimes referred in legal French as a cestui que trust (traditionally pronounced: "set-tee ker trust").
Trustee in bankruptcy A Trustee in Bankruptcy is a person who is appointed by the judge or by the creditors involved in the bankruptcy case. The trustee must be a licensed insolvency practitioner who is registered under the United States Bankruptcy Act.
Trustee savings bank A trustee savings bank or TSB is a British financial institution which specialized in accepting savings deposits from the very poor. They did not traded their shares in the stock market and contrary to mutually held banks, depositors had no voting rights nor the ability to direct the financial and managerial goals of the organization.
Trustee Savings Banks Association The Trustee Savings Banks Association was established in Manchester in 1887. However, throughout its history the Trustee Savings Banks Association failed to act as central provider of administrative functions to small independent savings banks.
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Trustix In computing, Trustix Secure Linux is a Linux distribution intended for use on servers and focused on security and stability. It is "hardened", meaning that non-essential services and binaries are not installed, while UNIX staples like Sendmail are replaced by programs with better security reputations like Postfix.
Trustmark Trustmark, headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, is an $8.1 billion financial services company offering a variety of banking and financial solutions through over 140 locations and 2,600 associates in Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas.
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