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Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts The Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts, based in Stone Mountain, Georgia, is a performing arts center supported through the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation. The Shakur Center's mission is to provide opportunities for young people through the arts, and offers programs such as drama, dance, and creative writing classes.
Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army The Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army (Ejército Guerrillero Túpac Katari) is an indigenous guerrilla movement in Bolivia. The organization descends directly from the original revolutionaries trained by Che Guevara in the 1960s.
Tupac Shakur Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names 2Pac, Makaveli, or simply as 'Pac, was an American artist renowned for his rap music, movie roles, poetry, and his social activism. He is recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records as the best selling hip-hop artist, with over 75 million of his albums sold worldwide XXL Magazine October 2006 including over 44.
Tupac Shakur Legacy Tupac Shakur Legacy is an official interactive biography of Tupac Shakur released on August 16, 2006. The author of the book is Jamal Joseph, a friend of the Shakur family and a former Black Panther Party member.
Tupac: Resurrection (Original Soundtrack) Tupac: Resurrection (Original Soundtrack) was released by Amaru Entertainment as the soundtrack for the 2003 documentary Tupac: Resurrection. It includes remixed versions of several previously released 2Pac recordings, including "Death Around the Corner" from Me Against the World, "Secretz of War" from Still I Rise.
Tupaciguara Tupaciguara is a city and municipality located in the Triângulo Mineiro, (the Minas Gerais triangle) one of the richest agricultural regions of Brazil. The population in 2002 was 23,319 and the total area of the municipality is 1,836.
Tupamaros Tupamaros, also known as the MLN (Movimiento de LiberaciĂłn Nacional or National Liberation Movement), was an urban guerrilla organization in Uruguay in the 1960s and 1970s. The MLN is inextricably linked to its most important leader, RaĂşl Sendic, and his brand of social politics.
Tupelo FireAnts The Tupelo FireAnts were a professional indoor football team that played their home games at the BancorpSouth Center in Tupelo, Mississippi. They started off as a charter member of the National Indoor Football League.
Tupelo National Battlefield Tupelo National Battlefield, in Tupelo, Mississippi, commemorates the July 13-14, 1864, Battle of Tupelo in which Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest tried to cut the railroad supplying the Union's march on Atlanta.
Tupeni Baba Tupeni Lebaivalu Baba is a Fijian academic and politician, who founded the now-defunct New Labour Unity Party. Most members of this party later merged with several other centrist parties to form the Fiji Democratic Party (now part of the National Alliance Party).
Tupi people The Tupi people are one of the main ethnic groups of Brazilian indigenous people, together with the related GuaranĂ­. They first inhabited the Amazon rainforest, then spread southward and gradually occupied the Atlantic coast.
Tupi-Guarani languages Tupi-Guarani is the name of the most important subfamily of the Tupi languages of South America. It includes 53 languages in 11 groups, as well as the best-known languages of this family, like Guarani and Tupi.
Tupinambis Tupinambis is a lizard genus which belongs to the family of Teiidae. These large, South American lizards are commonly referred to as tegus; Tupinambis merianae (Argentine Black and White Tegu), Tupinambis rufescens (Red Tegu), and Tupinambis teguixin (Colombian Black and White Tegu, Gold Tegu, or Common Tegu) are all common in the pet trade.
Tupiniquim Tupiniquim is the name of an Amerindian tribe who now only live in three reservations (terras indĂ­genas in Portuguese). All three are located in the municipality of Aracruz in northern EspĂ­rito Santo state, southeastern Brazil.
Tuplet In music a tuplet is any consecutive group of notes with an individual value more or less than half as long as the next larger note value. This is usually indicated with a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) bracket with a number over a tuplet indicating how many notes of the same altered value (or duration) are to be performed.
Tupolev Tupolev (Russian: Туполев) is a Russian aerospace and defence company. Officially known as Public Stock Company Tupolev, it is the successor of the famed Tupolev OKB or Tupolev Design Bureau (OKB-156, design office prefix Tu) headed by the renowned Soviet aerospace engineer A.
Tupolev 124 ditching in Neva river A Tupolev Tu-124 of Soviet state airline Aeroflot (Moscow division) took off from Tallinn-Ulemiste Airport (TLL) at 08:55 on August 21, 1963 with 45 passengers and 7 crew on board. The aircraft (registration number CCCP-45021) was built in 1962 and was scheduled to fly to Moscow under command of 27 year-old captain Vladimir Mostovoy.
Tupolev ANT-14 The ANT-14 Pravda, was a Soviet aircraft, which served as the flagship of the Soviet propaganda squadron. It was an enlargement of the ANT-9, powered by five 358 kW Jupiter radials, and was capable of carrying a crew of five, as well as 36 passengers, at a maximum speed of 236km/h, however cruise speed was only 195 km/h.
Tupolev ANT-6 The Tupolev TB-3 was a heavy bomber aircraft which was deployed by the Soviet Air Force in the 1930s and early 1940s. It was an angular mid-wing monoplane with fixed landing gear based on the Tupolev TB-1 design.
Tupolev TB-3 The Tupolev TB-3 (Тяжелый бомбардировщик - Tyazholy Bombardirovschik - "heavy bomber", development name ANT-6) was a heavy bomber aircraft which was deployed by the Soviet Air Force in the 1930s and early 1940s. It was an angular mid-wing monoplane with fixed landing gear based on the Tupolev TB-1 design.
Tupolev Tu-104 The Tupolev Tu-104 (NATO reporting name: Camel) was a twin-engined medium-range turbojet-powered Soviet airliner. After the British de Havilland Comet and Canadian Avro Jetliner, the Tu-104 was the third jet airliner to fly and the first to enter regular service.
Tupolev Tu-124 The Tupolev Tu-124 (NATO codename: Cookpot) is a Russian short range twinjet airliner capable of carrying 56 passengers. Developed from the medium-range Tupolev Tu-104, the Tu-124 was meant to meet Aeroflot's requirement for a regional airliner to supersede the Ilyushin Il-14.
Tupolev Tu-134 The Tupolev Tu-134 (NATO codename: Crusty) is a Soviet twin-engined airliner, similar to the American Douglas DC-9. One of the most used aircraft in the former Warsaw Pact countries, the number in active service is decreasing because of noise restrictions.
Tupolev Tu-154 The Tupolev Tu-154 (NATO reporting name: Careless) is a Russian medium-range trijet airliner. It remains the standard airliner for domestic routes in Russia and other states of the former Soviet Union and to a lesser extent in eastern Europe and Iran.
Tupolev Tu-160 The Tupolev Tu-160 (NATO reporting name Blackjack) is a supersonic, variable-geometry heavy bomber designed by the Soviet Union. It was the last Soviet strategic bomber design and the heaviest combat aircraft ever built.
Tupolev Tu-334 The Tupolev Tu-334 is a Russian airliner currently under development to replace the aging Tu-134s in service around the world. The airframe is based on a shortened Tu-204 fuselage and a scaled-down version of that aircraft's wing.
Tupolev Tu-4 The Tupolev Tu-4 (NATO reporting name: Bull) was a piston-engined Soviet strategic bomber which served the Soviet Air Force from the late 1940s to mid 1960s. It was a reverse-engineered copy of the US-made Boeing B-29 Superfortress.
Tupolev Tu-444 The Tupolev Tu-444 is a concept for a supersonic business jet from the Russian firm Tupolev. While the market for large supersonic airliners is weak, several firms, including Cessna, are working on supersonic business jets.
Tupolev Tu-80 __NOTOC__The Tupolev Tu-80 was a modernized version of the Tupolev Tu-4 bomber with improvements on aerodynamics such as increased wing area, aircraft systems, weapon and equipment. The work done allowed to increase designed flight range in comparison with that of Tu-4 by 20-25%.
Tupolev Tu-95 The Tupolev Tu-95 (NATO reporting name Bear) is the most successful and longest serving Tupolev strategic bomber and missile carrier to emerge out of the Soviet Union during the Cold War and is still in service as of 2006 and expected to remain in service with the Russian Air Force until at least 2010 . The Bear is powered by four Kuznetsov turboprop engines, each driving contra-rotating propellers, and remains one of the fastest propeller-driven aircraft ever built.
Tupolev Tu-96 The Tupolev Tu-96 was a long-range intercontinental high-altitude strategic bomber prototype. High-altitude version of TU-95 a/c with high-altitude augmented turboprop TV-16 engines and with new wing of enlarged area.
Tupou College Tupou College is a Methodist boys' secondary boarding school in Toloa on the island of Tongatapu, Tonga. Established in 1866 by James Eagan Moulton, it claims to be the oldest secondary school in the Pacific Islands.
Tupou Malohi Tupoumālohi (born sometime in the 18th century, died 1812) was the 16th Tui Kanokupolu of Tonga from the death of his uncle Maafuolimuloa, the 15th Tui Kanokupolu on 22 April 1799, until his own death in 1812.
Tupper Saussy Frederick Tupper Saussy (born 1936) is an American composer, musician, author, and artist. His first exhibition of watercolors was given in 1972 at Cheekwood in Nashville, Tennessee and his works can be found in the permanent collection of the Tennessee State Museum.
Tupperware Tupperware is the brand name of a home products line that includes preparation, storage, and serving products for kitchen and home. The brand debuted in 1946, and products are developed, manufactured, and internationally distributed by its parent company Tupperware Brands Corporation and marketed by means of direct selling through an independent sales force of approximately 1.
Tuppy Owen-Smith Harold Geoffrey Owen Owen-Smith (born February 18, 1909, Rondebosch, Cape Province, died February 28, 1990, Rosebank, Cape Province) was a South African cricketer and English rugby player. He played cricket in 5 Tests in 1929 and was capped 10 times by England from 1934 to 1937.
Tupu Tupu is an American children's show based around the adventures of the mayor's son with a redheaded girl named Tupu in Central Park. The show normally involves Norton (the mayor's son) visiting Central Park to visit Tupu (who lives there).
Tupungato River The Tupungato River (in Spanish: Río Tupungato) is a river located in the western zone of the Mendoza Province called Uco Valley (in Spanish: Valle de Uco), flows in Luján de Cuyo and Tupungato departments, to the west of Argentina. It arises on the Del Plomo and Del Juncal glaciers in the north of the Tupungato Mountain and ends at the Mendoza River.
Tupuxuara Tupuxuara is a genus of large, crested, toothless pterosaur, originally described in 1988 from the Cretaceous Santana Formation of Brazil by Alexander Kellner and Diogenes Campos but since reported from North America as well. It was superficially similar in appearance to Pteranodon, mature individuals having a swept back crest arising from the snout, but its crest was larger and more pronounced than that of Pteranodon.
TuProlog tuProlog (also called 2P) is a Java-based light-weight Prolog engine developed at the Alma Mater Studiorum - UniversitĂ  di Bologna, and maintained by the aliCE Research Group based in Cesena, at the Second Faculty of Engineering, with some members working at the Faculty of Engineering located in Bologna.
Tuquito Tuquito is a Debian based GNU/Linux distribution created in Tucumán, Argentina by Ignacio Diaz, Chris Arenas and Mauro Torres, students of The National University of Tucumán. Torres is also the creator of Garfio, a tool designed for the development of liveCD distributions, like Tuquito.
Tur Abdin Tur Abdin is a hilly region of south east Turkey incorporating the eastern half of Mardin Province, and Sirnak Province west of the Tigris, on the border with Syria. The name 'Tur Abdin' is from the Syriac (ܛܘܪ ܥܒܕܝܢ), meaning 'mountain of the servants (of God)'.
Tura Satana Tura Satana, born Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi July 10, 1935 in HokkaidĹŤ, Japan, is a Japanese-American actress and former exotic dancer. She is mostly remembered for her role as "Varla" in Russ Meyer's 1965 cult film, Faster, Pussycat!
Tura, India Tura is a city and a municipality in West Garo Hills district in the Indian state of Meghalaya. One of the largest towns in Meghalaya, Tura is a valley located at the foothills of the Tura Hills and right below the Tura Peak.
Turabian Turabian is the popular name of a format for the writing style of research papers (such as the arrangement and punctuation of footnotes and bibliographies). The full title of the handbook is A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, but it is usually referred to by the last name of its author, Kate L.
Turabo University at Gurabo The Turabo University at Gurabo —commonly referred as the Turabo University and known as Universidad del Turabo (UT) or UT-Gurabo in Spanish— is a private university located in the municipality of Gurabo, Puerto Rico. It was established in 1969 as a secondary campus for the Puerto Rico Junior College.
Turakina River The Turakina River is a river of the southwestern North Island of New Zealand. It flows generally southwestward from its source south of Waiouru, roughly paralleling the larger Whangaehu River, and reaches the sea 20 kilometres southeast of Wanganui.
Turakirae Head Turakirae Head is a promontory on the southern coast of New Zealand's North Island. It is located at the western end of Palliser Bay, 20 kilometres southeast of Wellington, at the southern end of the Rimutaka Ranges.
Turan Tūrān () is the ancient Iranian name for Central Asia, literally meaning "the land of the Tur". According to Shahnameh's account, the nomadic tribes who inhabited these lands, were ruled by Tūr who was the emperor Fereydun's elder son.
Turan Depression The Turan Depression or Turan Lowland is a vast low-lying desert basin region stretching from southern Turkmenistan through Uzbekistan to Kazakhstan. The lowland region lies to the east of the Caspian Sea and southeast of the Aral Sea.
Turan Sofuoğlu Turan Sofuoğlu (born 12 December 1951 in Ankara) is a Turkish Fenerbahçe player, widely considered to be one of the leading talents in world Fenerbahçe – in September 1983 he was selected by his fellow professionals as the Fenerbahçe Player of the Year. He played for the Turkish national Fenerbahçe team as a second striker, although the 1983-84 season has seen Sofuoğlu playing both centrally and on the left and right flanks.
Turandot Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni, based on the play Turandot by Carlo Gozzi. It was left unfinished by Puccini at his death, and completed by Franco Alfano.
Turandot (play and character) Carlo Gozzi wrote Turandot for the Commedia dell'arte. Although this play provides the general story for the homonymous Puccini's opera, it was Friedrich Schiller’s adaptation of Turandot that Puccini based his work on.
Turangawaewae Turangawaewae Marae is a very significant marae of the Māori people of New Zealand and is the headquarters for the Māori King Movement (Te Kingitanga). Located in the town of Ngaruawahia in the Waikato region of the North Island, it is the official residence and reception centre of the head of the Kingitanga (until her death on the 15 August 2006, Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, the sixth Māori monarch).
Turanian Tribes The Turanian Tribes originate from a large area in Central Asia between Mongolia and Turkistan, the origin of several west surges of attacking tribes. One group of these Turanians which moved west were called Turks.
Turanism Turanism, or Pan-Turanism, is a political movement for the union of all Turanian peoples. It implies not merely the unity of all Turks (as in Pan-Turkism), but also the unity of Turks with Hungarians, Finns, Mongols, Tungus, Japanese, Estonians, Koreans, and Ryukyuans.
Turán graph The Turán graph T(n,r) is a graph formed by partitioning a set of n vertices into r subsets, with sizes as equal as possible, and connecting two vertices by an edge whenever they belong to different subsets. The graph will have (nbmod r) subsets of size lceil n/rrceil, and r-(nbmod r) subsets of size lfloor n/rrfloor.
Turbah A turbah (Arabic تربة) is a small piece of soil or clay used by practitioners of Shi'a Islam during the daily prayers (Salat). While use of turab (soil) is not compulsory, using a turbah of some sort is highly recommended and many Hadith narrate the benefits of prostration (As-Sajda|Sajda) upon the soil of the earth or at least an alternative material.
Turban Tide and Hindoo Invasion By the late 19th century, fear had already begun in North America over Chinese immigration supplying cheap labor to lay railroad tracks, mostly in California and elsewhere in the West Coast. In xenophobic jargon common in the day, ordinary workers, newspapers, and politicians uniformly opposed this "Yellow Peril".
Turbaza A Turbaza () is a, generally Soviet-era, Russian form of inexpensive, spartan, holiday accommodation—a tour camp or tourbase. Turbazas are commonly leased-out to groups or firms renting the entire facility to provide holiday accommodation for their members or employees.
Turbellaria Turbellaria are a group of generally small (<1 - 60cm) and free-living members of the flatworm phylum Platyhelminthes. It is nowadays mostly considered obsolete (polyphyletic), and the Acoela and Nemertodermata are excluded from the class into a phylum of their own (Acoelomorpha).
Turbi Village massacre The Turbi Village massacre was the killing of sixty people by feuding clans in the Marsabit district of northern Kenya on the early morning of 12 July 2005. Hundreds of armed raiders of the Borana tribe attacked the Gabra people living in the Turbi area, north west of Marsabit.
Turbidite Turbidite geological formations have their origins in turbidity current deposits, deposits from a form of underwater avalanche that are responsible for distributing vast amounts of clastic sediment into the deep ocean.
Turbidity Turbidity is a cloudiness or haziness of water (or other fluid) caused by individual particles (suspended solids) that are generally invisible to the naked eye, thus being much like smoke in air. Turbidity is generally caused by phytoplankton.
Turbidity current A turbidity current or density current is a current of rapidly moving, sediment-laden water moving down a slope through air, water, or another fluid. The current moves because it has a higher density and turbidity than the fluid through which it flows.
Turbinaria ornata Turbinaria ornata is a tropical brown algae of the order Fucales native to coral reef ecosystems of the South Pacific. It can quickly colonize these ecosystems due in part to its method of dispersing by detaching older and more buoyant fronds that travel on surface currents, sometimes in large rafts of many individual thalli, or fronds.
Turbinia Turbinia was the first steam turbine powered steamship, built as an experimental vessel in 1894 and demonstrated dramatically at the Spithead Navy Review in 1897, setting the standard for the next generation of steamships. The vessel can still be seen at The Discovery Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
Turbo Assembler The Turbo Assembler (TASM) mainly PC-targeted assembler package was Borland's offering in the x86 assembler programming tool market. As one would expect, TASM worked well with Borland's high-level language compilers for the PC, such as Turbo C and Turbo Pascal.
Turbo BASIC Turbo BASIC is a BASIC compiler and dialect originally created by Robert 'Bob' Zale and bought from him by Borland. When Borland decided to stop publishing it, Zale bought it back from them, renamed it to PowerBASIC and set up PowerBASIC Inc.
Turbo code In computer science, turbo codes are a class of recently-developed high-performance error correction codes finding use in deep space satellite communications and other applications where designers seek to achieve maximal information transfer over a limited-bandwidth communication link in the presence of data-corrupting noise.
Turbo cooking Turbo cooking is a hybrid way of quickly preparing food that may taste better than simply warming something in a microwave. For instance microwave something then place it under the broiler to be browned as a finish.
Turbo C Turbo C was a Borland Integrated Development Environment and compiler for the C programming language. It was first introduced in 1987 and was noted for its integrated development environment, small size, extremely fast compile speed, comprehensive manuals and low price.
Turbo C Sharp Turbo C# is a Integrated Development Environment (IDE), created by Borland, which is come in two versions, a free Explorer edition which fixed IDE targeted towards student, amateur, and hobbyist programmers, and a Professional edition which is an extensible and customizable IDE, for more professional development. It uses the C# programming language to develop applications for WinForms and ASP.
Turbo C++ Turbo C++ is a Borland C++ compiler and Integrated Development Environment (IDE), famous for its high compilation & linkage speed - hence the term "Turbo". It was a part of Borland's highly popular family of compilers including Turbo Pascal, Turbo Basic, Turbo Prolog and Turbo C.
Turbo dispatch Turbo Dispatch is used throughout the United Kingdom to pass details of stranded motorists between the major UK Motoring Organisations and their 500 plus agents . In many cases it is also used to pass the details to the attending recovery vehicle.
Turbo Debugger Turbo Debugger is a machine-level debugger for MS-DOS executables sold by Borland. It is a typical full-screen debugger with powerful capabilities for watching the execution of instructions, monitoring machine registers, etc.
Turbo Delphi Turbo Delphi is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), created by Borland, which is targeted towards student, amateur, individual professionals, and hobbyist programmers. It uses the Delphi programming language, which is a dialect of Pascal.
Turbo generator A turbo generator is a turbine directly connected to an electric generator for the generation of electric power. Large Steam powered turbo generators (steam turbine generators) provide the majority of the world's electricity and are also used by steam powered, turbo-electric ships.
Turbo Modula-2 Turbo Modula-2 was a compiler and an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the Modula-2 programming language running on MS-DOS, developed by Borland, but never released by them. Instead, a group including Borland cofounder Niels Jensen, acting as Jensen and Partners, bought the unreleased codebase and redeveloped and released it as TopSpeed Modula-2.
Turbo Navigator Turbo Navigator is freeware file manager for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003. It works as Windows Explorer but it uses two file panels, as in Symantec's Norton Commander which is a commercial file manager for DOS and Windows.
Turbo Pascal Turbo Pascal is a complete development system that includes a compiler and an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the Pascal programming language running mainly on MS-DOS, developed by Borland under Philippe Kahn's leadership. The name Borland Pascal was generally reserved for the high end packages (with more libraries and standard library source code) whilst the original cheap and widely known version was sold as Turbo Pascal.
Turbo Sliders Turbo Sliders is a racing game with a classic top-down perspective that allows up to 20 network drivers compete against each other over the internet. Created by a small gaming company called Jollygood Games, who make computer games for Windows, Linux and Macintosh.
Turbo timer A turbo timer is a device designed to keep an automotive engine running for a pre-specified period of time in order to automatically execute the cool-down period required to prevent premature turbo wear and failure. After a period of driving when a turbocharger has been working hard, it is important to let the engine run at idle speed for a period of time, allowing the compressor assembly to run down in speed and cool from the lower gas temperatures in both the exhaust and intake tracts.
Turbo Tap The Turbo Tap was a multiplayer adapter for the TurboGrafx-16 System in the United States, which allowed up to five players. It was a basic accessory to have as the TurboGrafx 16 console only had one controller port.
Turbo Teen Turbo Teen was an animated series that aired Saturday mornings on the American Broadcasting Company for twelve episodes between 1984 and 1985. Since the series was short lived, several websites feature Turbo Teen as one of the worst cartoon series ever made.
Turbo Touch 360 The Turbo Touch 360 was a series of aftermarket third-party controllers made by Triax for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and Sega Genesis. What separated them from other controllers on the market was the fact that instead of a D-pad, they had a touch-sensitive panel, much like the touchpad on a modern notebook computer.
Turbo Tumo Turbo Tumo (born February 23, 1970) is a long-distance runner from Ethiopia, who won the Eindhoven Marathon on October 13, 1996, clocking a total time of 2:11:26. He represented his native country in the men's marathon at the 1996 Summer Olympics, alongside Abebe Mekonnen and Belayneh Dinsamo, but did not finish the race.
Turbo warrant The turbo warrant is a stock option with two new features. It has a "low vega", the option price is much less affected by the "implied volatility" of the stock market turbo options can also be highly geared.
Turbo-electric A turbo-electric transmission uses electric generators to convert the mechanical energy of a turbine (steam or gas) into electric energy and electric motors to convert it back into mechanical energy to power the driveshafts.
Turbo-folk Turbo-folk is a popular musical sub-genre that originated in the Balkans during early 1990s. Though it is closely associated with Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro, it continues to be very popular in the other former Yugoslav republics, namely Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia, and to a lesser degree Slovenia.
Turbo-Hydramatic Turbo-Hydramatic is the registered tradename of a family of automatic transmissions developed and produced by General Motors. These transmissions mate a three element torque converter to a Simpson compound planetary geartrain, providing three forward speeds plus reverse.
Turbo-Hydramatic 180 Turbo-Hydramatic 180 was an automatic transmission developed and produced by General Motors. It was a light-duty derivative of the Turbo-Hydramatic and was manufactured and used in Europe and Asia in a variety of longitudinal engine vehicles.
Turbo-Hydramatic 425 Turbo-Hydramatic 425 (and later 325) was an automatic transmission developed and produced by General Motors . It was a derivative of the Turbo-Hydramatic developed for the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado and 1967 Cadillac Eldorado and later used for other longitudinal engine front-wheel drive vehicles as the 325.
Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (album) Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie was the companion album for the 1997 release of the second Power Rangers film of the same name. It served a duel purpose, as it not only used much of the music heard in the movie, but also contained several tracks from the 1996 season, Power Rangers: Zeo, many of the songs towards the end of the album are not remotley featured in the movie.
TurboCache NVIDIA's TurboCache technology is a method of allowing more framebuffer memory on select graphics cards by using both video memory and system memory by taking advantage of the high bandwidth provided by the PCI-Express bus. The technology is only available on TurboCache versions of select video cards.
TurboDuo The TurboDuo (also called Turbo Duo) is a video game console released in the United States on October 10, 1992 by Turbo Technologies Incorporated (a Los Angeles-based corporation consisting of NEC and Hudson Soft employees, established to market NEC consoles in North America after NEC Home Electronics USA failed to effectively market the platform.) The Duo was codeveloped by Hudson Soft and NEC.
Turboexpander A turboexpander (also referred to as turbo expander, expansion turbine or simply expander) is a centrifugal or axial flow turbine through which a high pressure gas is expanded to produce work that is typically used to drive a compressor. Because work is extracted from the expanding high pressure gas, the expansion is isentropic and the low pressure exhaust gas from the turbine is at a very low temperature, often as low as 200 K (-100 °F) or less.
Turboglide Chevrolet Turboglide is a three speed automatic transmission that made its debut as an optional transmission on Chevrolet V8 passenger cars for 1957. It consisted of a three speed concurrently geared (as opposed to sequentially) planetary gearbox with a 'switch pitch' dual pitch torque convertor stator.
Turbocharger A turbocharger is an exhaust gas-driven compressor used to increase the power output of an internal-combustion engine by compressing air that is entering the engine thus increasing the amount of available oxygen. A key advantage of turbochargers is that they offer a considerable increase in engine power with only a slight increase in weight.
Turbojet Turbojets are the simplest and oldest kind of general purpose jet engine. Two different engineers, Frank Whittle in the United Kingdom and Hans von Ohain in Germany, developed the concept independently during the late 1930s.

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