T1 (n) -  A U.S. telephone standard for a transmission facility at digital signal level 1 (DS1) with 1.544 megabits per second in North America and 2.048 megabits per second in Europe. The bit rate is the equivalent bandwidth of approximately twenty-four 56-kilobits- per-second lines. A T1 circuit is capable of serving a minimum of 48 modems at 28.8 kilobits per second or 96 modems at 14.4 kilobits per second. T1 circuits are also used for voice telephone connections. A single T1 line carries 24 telephone connections with 24 telephone numbers. When it is used for voice transmission, a T1 connection must be split into 24 separate circuits.

 

T3 (n) -  A U.S. telephone standard for a transmission facility at digital signal level 3 (DS3). T3 is equivalent in bandwidth to 28 T1s, and the bit rate is 44.736 megabits per second. T3 is sometimes called a 45-meg circuit.

 

TA (n) -  A two-way device provided by a cable provider that enables some one-way digital CableCARD-based consumer electronic devices such as high-definition DVRs and Media Center PCs to access digital cable channels delivered using switched digital video. tab (n) -  A clickable UI element designed to look like a tab on a file folder. Tabs are usually arranged horizontally and allow users to switch between related pages or webpages.

 

Tab (PN) -  The on-screen keyboard key that traditionally (as in word processing) is used to insert tab characters into a document.

 

tab character (n) -  A character used to align lines and columns on screen and in print. Although a tab is visually indistinguishable from a series of blank spaces in most programs, the tab character and the space character are different to a computer. A tab is a single character and therefore can be added, deleted, or overtyped with a single keystroke. tab control (n) -  A standard control that resembles a notebook and lets the user navigate different sections of information without leaving the current element on the screen. tab delimited (adj) -  Having values separated from each other by tabs. tab gesture (n) -  In Tablet PC Input Panel, an action gesture that performs the same action as pressing the TAB key on the keyboard.

 

TAB key (n) -  A keyboard key, often labeled with both a left-pointing and a right-pointing arrow, that traditionally (as in word processing) is used to insert tab characters into a document. In other applications, such as menu-driven programs, the TAB key is often used to move the on-screen highlight from place to place.

 

tab order (n) -  The order in which the TAB key moves the input focus from one control to the next within a dialog box. Usually, the tab order proceeds from left to right in a dialog box, and from top to bottom in a radio group.

 

tab page (n) -  A part of a tab control that consists of the tab UI element and the display area, which acts as a container for data or other controls, such as text boxes, combo boxes, and command buttons.

 

Tab Peek (PN) -  A feature in the browser that allows the user to hover over open browser tabs and see thumbnails of the underlying webpage.

 

Tab Selector (PN) -  The UI control containing tabs that do not appear directly in the ribbon because of limited screen space.

 

tab set (n) -  In Internet Explorer, a set of tabs you can store in your Favorites or as Home Page to reopen all tabs in the set in one go.

 

tabbed browsing (n) -  A function of some Web browsers that allows users to surf and view multiple pages by loading Web sites into sections (or tabs) of one page, rather than multiple pages.

 

tabbed conversation (n) -  A conversation that is displayed with other conversations in one window. The conversations are loaded into sections or tabs of the window, rather than in multiple windows.

 

tabbed conversations (n) -  A presentation method in Messenger that allows someone to maintain multiple conversations in a tabbed view.

 

tabbed docking bar (n) -  The host control for a group of dockable windows. Once docked, each window changes form, becoming a tab.

 

tabbed group (n) -  In a multiple document interface (MDI) application, a set of child windows that have tab borders and are docked together in the client area of the application. To undock a child window from the group, drag it by its tab. tabify (v) -  To convert to tabs according to tab settings.

 

table (n) -  One or more rows of cells commonly used to display numbers and other items for quick reference and analysis. Items in a table are organized into rows and columns. table (n) -  A database object that stores data in records (rows) and fields (columns). The data is usually about a particular category of things, such as employees or orders. table (n) -  A specific instance in the Table service that represents a collection of entities. Entities are similar to rows. An entity has a partition, a primary key and a set of properties. table data region (n) -  A report item on a report layout that displays data in a columnar format.

 

Table Designer (PN) -  A visual design surface that is used to create and edit TSQL tables and table related objects.

 

Table Hierarchy (PN) -  A SmartArt graphic layout used to show groups of information built from top to bottom, and the hierarchies within each group. This layout does not contain connecting lines.

 

table layout (n) -  The layout of a form in which all elements are positioned in cells within a table.

 

Table List (PN) -  A SmartArt graphic layout used to show grouped or related information of equal value. The first Level 1 line of text corresponds to the top shape and its Level 2 text is used for the subsequent lists.

 

table lock (n) -  A lock on a table including all data and indexes.

 

table lookup (n) -  The process of using a known value to search for data in a previously constructed table of values: for example, using a purchase price to search a tax table for the appropriate sales tax.

 

table name (n) -  A name for an Excel table, which is a collection of data about a particular subject that is stored in records (rows) and fields (columns).

 

table of authorities (n) -  A list of the references in a legal document, such as references to cases, statutes, and rules, along with the numbers of the pages the references appear on. table of contents (n) -  The listing of contents at the beginning of a document or file.

 

table of figures (n) -  A list of the captions for pictures, charts, graphs, slides, or other illustrations in a document, along with the numbers of the pages the captions appear on. table pane (n) -  The area of the Query window that displays the tables in a query. Each table displays the fields from which you can retrieve data.

 

table reference (n) -  A name, expression or string that resolves to a table.

 

table scan (n) -  A data retrieval operation where the database engine must read all the pages in a table to find the rows that qualify for a query.

 

Table service (PN) -  The data management service in Microsoft Azure Storage that stores large amounts of structured, non-relational data. The Table service is a NoSQL datastore that accesses authenticated calls from inside and outside Microsoft Azure.

 

table style (n) -  A combination of table formatting options identified by a style name. table-per hierarchy (n) -  A method of modeling a type hierarchy in a database that includes the attributes of all the types in the hierarchy in one table.

 

table-per-concrete type (n) -  A method of mapping the inheritance where each non­abstract type in the hierarchy is mapped to separate table in the database. Often used when there are unrelated tables that store the same kinds of data in the database. For example, the Product and DiscontinuedProduct tables.

 

table-per-type (n) -  A method of modeling a type hierarchy in a database that uses multiple tables with one-to-one relationships to model the various types. tablet (n) -  A portable computer that allows you to write on or interact with the screen. Tablet  -  A portable computer which consists only of a screen, usually with no keyboard.

 

It is controlled using a touchscreen. The most popular is Apple's- iPad, but all the major manufacturers are producing them and they are replacing latops in a lot of situations because they are so much lighter.

 

tablet button (oth) -  A hardware button on a Tablet PC.

 

tablet mode (n) -  A mode that optimizes Windows for touch when a keyboard is not attached to a 2-in-1 device.

 

tablet PC (n) -  A portable computer that allows you to write on or interact with the screen. Tablet PC Input Panel (oth) -  A Tablet PC accessory that enables you to use handwriting, speech, or an on-screen keyboard to enter text, symbols, numbers, or keyboard shortcuts. You can use it to interact with any Windows-based program.

 

Tablet PC Input Panel icon (oth) -  The icon that you tap to open Tablet PC Input Panel. The icon appears in the taskbar. It also appears next to a text entry area when Input Panel is undocked.

 

Tablet PCs  -  Tablet PCs were brought to market to address the low use of laptop computers in meetings and the slowing of laptop adoption in the enterprise. They are designed to be closer to the pad and pencil that are the standard for note taking. tablet pen (n) -  A pointed input device that comes with a mobile device or tablet PC, and is used to navigate through applications and to input information.

 

Tablet Settings (n) -  A Control Panel icon in Tablet PCs.

 

tabletop (n) -  The entire top of a Surface unit. The tabletop includes the screen (where users interact with objects and where images render) and the diffuser. table-valued function (n) -  A user-defined function that returns a table.

 

Tablix (PN) -  A data region that can render data in table, matrix, and list format. It is intended to convey the unique functionality of the data region object and the users' ability to combine data formats.

 

Tablix data region (PN) -  A data region that can render data in table, matrix, and list format. It is intended to convey the unique functionality of the data region object and the users' ability to combine data formats.

 

tabular data (n) -  Data displayed in cells in a table.

 

tabular data stream (n) -  The SQL Server internal client/server data transfer protocol. TDS allows client and server products to communicate regardless of operating-system platform, server release, or network transport.

 

tabular query (n) -  A standard operation such as search, sort, filter or transform on data in a table.

 

tag (n) -  To request an alert for a specific contact when that contact's presence status changes.

 

tag (n) -  One or more characters containing information about a file, record type, or other structure.

 

tag (n) -  A marker used to identify a physical object. An RFID tag is an electronic marker that stores identification data.

 

tag (v) -  To apply an identification marker to an item, case, or pallet.

 

tag (n) -  A marker that can be applied to content or items (like photos or text) to identify certain types of information. This allows the user to find, view and sort tagged items with ease.

 

tag (n) -  In markup languages such as SGML and HTML, a code that identifies an element in a document, such as a heading or a paragraph, for the purposes of formatting, indexing, and linking information in the document.

 

tag (v) -  To apply a marker to content or items (like photos or text) to identify certain types of information.

 

tag (n) -  A geometrical arrangement of shapes that define a value that the Surface Vision System can recognize. These geometrical arrangements are added to physical objects (then called tagged objects) to work with Surface applications (for example, a glass tile that acts as a puzzle piece in a puzzle application).

 

tag (n) -  A pair that consists of an integer identifier and a COM object.

 

tag (v) -  Mentioning of one or more users in posts to link information related to those users.

 

tag  -  In Web pages, tags indicate what should be displayed on the screen when the page loads.

 

tag cloud (n) -  A visual depiction of a weighted list. The cloud contains keywords or tags associated with a text or Web site, and formatting (e.g. color and/or size) is used to indicate the relative importance of each item, or frequency with which it occurs.

 

Tag Contact (n) -  An item on the right-click menu for a contact that marks the selected contact so the user will receive alerts when this contact changes status.

 

Tag for Presence Alerts (PN) -  A menu item that marks the selected contact so the user will receive presence alerts when this contact's presence changes from anything to Available or from anything to Unavailable.

 

Tag for Status Change Alerts (PN) -  A menu item that marks the selected contact so the user will receive presence alerts when this contact's presence changes from anything to Available or from anything to Unavailable.

 

Tag Inspector Tree (n) -  An item on the View menu that refers to the hierarchical HTML tag structure of an opened HTML document.

 

tag line (n) -  A brief, memorable statement that summarizes the purpose of an

 

organization or emphasizes an important aspect of a product or service.

 

tag tree (n) -  The hierarchical HTML tag structure of an opened HTML document that appears in a task pane window.

 

tagged  -  Tagged is a social networking site based in San Francisco, California, United States, founded in 2004.- http://www.tagged.com/

 

tagged contact (n) -  A contact whose presence status is displayed in an alert whenever it changes.

 

tagged contacts only (oth) -  An option in the Options dialog box, on the Alerts tab, that displays alerts only for the contacts that the user has tagged in his contact list.

 

Tagged Image File Format (n) -  A high resolution, tag-based image format used for scanning, storing, and combining graphic images.

 

Tagged Items (PN) -  A Web Part that displays all items that belong to a given tag. tagged note (n) -  A OneNote item that has been marked with a note tag. tagged object (n) -  A physical object that is optically or digitally tagged to be used interactively with Surface applications. The Surface Vision System currently recognizes byte tags and identity tags.

 

tagged value (n) -  A keyword-value pair that can be attached to any model element. The keyword is called a tag, and it represents a property applicable to one or many elements. Both the keyword and the value are strings.

 

Tags (PN) -  A feature that allows the user to apply custom or default markers to items (e.g. Outlook messages or OneNote content) in order to categorize information for easy retrieval and sorting.

 

tail-log backup (n) -  A log backup taken from a possibly damaged database to capture the log that has not yet been backed up. A tail-log backup is taken after a failure in order to prevent work loss.

 

take advantage (v) -  To use for your benefit.

 

Taken (n) -  A button that specifies the date the picture was taken.

 

takt time (n) -  The time that it takes to produce one unit of a product.

 

Talk (PN) -  A button that initiates the process of dialing a phone number.

 

talkgroup (n) -  A contact list, similar to an alias, that allows the talk to reach a list of users at once by the push-to-talk functionality.

 

TAM (n) -  A Microsoft employee who provides technical assistance to one or more specific royalty OEMs as they manufacture computers installed with a released version of Windows.

 

Tandems  -  Switches that consolidate traffic, reduce trunk group requirements, and switch interoffice traffic.

 

tangent (n) -  The gradient of a curve at a point. You can modify a curve that is part of a path object by using the control handles that represent the tangent of the curve. tangent handle (n) -  A handle that specifies unique behavior for certain shapes.

 

Tangible User Interfaces  -  the user controls digital information and processes by manipulating physical, real-world objects that are meaningful in the context of the interaction.-

 

Tango (n) -  One of the music genres that appears under Genre classification in Windows Media Player library. Based on ID3 standard tagging format for MP3 audio files. Winamp genre ID # 113.

 

tap (v) -  To touch an item once with the tablet pen and then lift the pen quickly.

 

TAP (n) -  A collection of boundary scan control signals that define a serial protocol for scan-based devices. There are five pins, TCK/clock, TMS/mode select, TDI/data in, TDO/data out, and TRST/reset.

 

tap (v) -  To briefly press a UI element with your fingertip or stylus to perform an activity (such as choosing an action from a menu or opening an item).

 

tap (n) -  A gesture represented by placing a finger or stylus on the screen and then lifting it up.

 

tap (v) -  To touch an NFC-capable device to a tag, an NFC reader, or another device to wirelessly transfer content or information.

 

Tap and Do (PN) -  A gesture that enables proximity-based authentication between two devices.

 

tap and hold (v) -  To tap a device screen and hold one's finger or stylus in place.

 

Tap and Hold (PN) -  A feature that provides a progressive disclosure method that remains active only as long as the user holds (presses down) their finger on the touch surface.

 

Tap and Send (PN) -  The feature that allows you to tap' a PC or phone against another device (or put it close to another device)

 

tap gesture (n) -  A gesture represented by placing a finger or stylus on the screen and then lifting it up.

 

tap to expand (PN) -  A text string displayed in the status bar for Call Progress, alternating with the callee's name, to prompt the user that he/she can tap the bar to return to the call. tap to merge (PN) -  A text string displayed in the status bar during a held call, alternating with the held callee's name, to prompt the user that they can tap the bar to merge the calls. tap to open (PN) -  A text string that the user can tap to open a file downloaded from Internet Explorer.

 

tap to pair (PN) -  A text string that the user can tap to connect an accessory over Bluetooth.

 

Tap to share (PN) -  The feature that allows you to tap' a PC or phone against another device (or put it close to another device)

 

tap to swap (PN) -  A text strings that appears in the status bar when the user can switch between the active call and the call on hold.

 

tap two fingers (v) -  To tap with two fingers on a touchpad or similar device at the same time and with a relatively short distance between each other.

 

tape (n) -  A thin strip of polyester film coated with magnetic material that permits the recording of data.

 

tape backup (n) -  A SQL Server backup operation that writes to any tape device supported by the operating system.

 

tape catalog (n) -  A catalog that maps data to the tape on which the data is stored.

 

tape drive (n) -  A device that can read or write data to tape. A library contains one or more tape drives.

 

tape label (n) -  A unique identifier for tape. For non-writable tapes, this may be a serial number.

 

tape library (n) -  A data-storage system that consists of removable tape and a hardware device that can read from or write to the tape.

 

tape set (n) -  An ordered collection of backup tapes written to by one or more backup operations using a constant number of backup devices.

 

TAPI (n) -  An application programming interface (API) used by communications programs to work with telephony and network services.

 

tare weight (n) -  The weight of an empty container and packing material, which is deducted from gross weight to determine the weight of the goods.

 

Targa (PN) -  A photorealistic graphics file format designed for systems with a TARGA Truevision display adapter.

 

target (n) -  One or more expressions that identify where, when, and to whom content should be displayed. You can target demographics, sections of a Web site, or both. target (n) -  A Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path that corresponds to a namespace root or folder.

 

target (n) -  A computer or computer group to which override criteria is applied. target (n) -  As one aspect of a KPI, the desired level of performance with respect to a specific business goal or strategy. Actual values are evaluated against the target to determine KPI score and status.

 

target (n) -  The database on which an operation acts.

 

target action (n) -  An option that specifies that a piece of content is to be shown when the target is met more often than when the target is not met.

 

Target Application (PN) -  An item stored in the Secure Store Service that maps users or groups to credentials needed to access external data or other resources. target award (n) -  The amount of a variable compensation award that is calculated by the plan before company or individual performance is taken into account. The target award is what an employee will receive if all targets are reached.

 

target computer (n) -  The computer that will be distributed to customers on which you install Windows. You can either run Windows Setup on the destination computer or copy a master installation onto a destination computer.

 

target device (n) -  A device that receives an action specified by the OneCare

 

administrator. For example, an external hard drive that is the designated the place for file

 

backup would be considered to be the target device' of the backup function. ‘

 

target diagram (n) -  A diagram that is used to show steps toward a goal.

 

target directory (n) -  The destination folder into which a file or files are to be copied or

 

moved.

 

target frame (n) -  The name of a frame in which the target page of a hyperlink is displayed. Typically, a hyperlink from one frame of a frames page (or frameset) will supply as its target frame another frame of the frames page.

 

target framework (n) -  The version of the .NET Framework or of Silverlight for which a particular application has been created.

 

target identifier (n) -  One of up to eight target controllers on a SCSI-II bus through which peripheral devices are addressable, either as numbered TIDs or as logical units (LUs) subordinate to a particular TID.

 

target incentive amount (n) -  A target award that is defined as a flat award of cash or stock according to compensation level.

 

target incentive percent (n) -  A target award that is defined as a percent of a basis and provided in cash or stock according to compensation level. The basis is usually the annualized fixed pay rate, but can also be a midpoint, control point, or other compensation range reference point.

 

target increase (n) -  The increase of a variable compensation award that is calculated by the plan before company or individual performance is taken into account. The target increase represents the award that an employee will receive if all targets are reached. Target List (PN) -  A SmartArt graphic layout used to show interrelated or overlapping information. Each of the first seven lines of Level 1 text appears in the rectangular shape. Unused text does not appear, but remains available if you switch layouts. Works well with both Level 1 and Level 2 text.

 

target logical datacenter (n) -  The logical datacenter definition to which the system is being deployed.

 

target model (n) -  The model to which data will be moved.

 

target partition (n) -  An Analysis Services partition into which another is merged, and which contains the data of both partitions after the merger.

 

target PC (n) -  A computer that receives an action specified by the OneCare administrator. For example, a computer that is the designated the place for file backup would be considered to be the target PC' of the backup function. ‘

 

Target Quantity (n) -  The amount of inventory you want to keep based on buying patterns. Also the quantity at which the system would order inventory when it reaches the reorder point.

 

target queue (n) -  In Service Broker, the queue associated with the service to which messages are sent.

 

target server (n) -  A server that receives jobs from a master server.

 

target term (n) -  The equivalent of a source term in a target language.

 

target type (n) -  The type of target, which has certain characteristics and behavior. target value (n) -  As one aspect of a KPI, the desired level of performance with respect to a specific business goal or strategy. Actual values are evaluated against the target to determine KPI score and status.

 

targeting (n) -  The process of delivering specific content to specific users.

 

targets file (n) -  In the context of MSBuild, an XML file that contains MSBuild target elements that can be used by one or more build projects. A target element contains one or more tasks to be performed in a build.

 

tarpitting (n) -  The practice of artificially delaying server responses for specific SMTP communication patterns that indicate high volumes of spam or other unwelcome e-mail messages. The intent is to slow down the communication process for such e-mail traffic so that the cost of sending spam increases for the person or organization who is sending the e-mail.

 

tarpitting interval (n) -  The interval that is used to delay a response in a tarpitting scenario.

 

task (n) -  An action that diagnoses or repairs a problem. A task can also automate a management process.

 

task (n) -  A personal or work-related project, assignment, or errand to be tracked through to completion.

 

task (n) -  A type of work item that records a development task or test task.

 

task (n) -  An action that a user accomplishes by using the Actions pane and the context- sensitive menu that affects non-Service Manager objects.

 

task (n) -  In Operations Manager, an element in a management pack that is manually initiated by an operator to run a predefined command or script against a monitored object. task (n) -  An atomic activity assigned to one or more persons or pieces of equipment responsible for meeting the requirements of the activity.

 

task (n) -  A single unit of work within a prescribed sequence of actions, taken to complete a job or function.

 

task (n) -  An individual step defined in a job template.

 

Task (n) -  A milestone for CSRs that serves as a reminder to perform certain Actions, review Tickets, or other similar functions.

 

task area (n) -  A grouping of related tasks in DPM Administrator Console. The console has five task areas: Monitoring, Protection, Recovery, Reporting, and Management. task board (n) -  In its most basic form, a task board can be drawn on a whiteboard or even a section of wall. Using electrical tape or a dry erase pen, the board is divided into three columns labeled To Do'

 

task calendar (n) -  The base calendar that you can apply to individual tasks to control their scheduling, usually independent of the project calendar or any assigned resources' calendars. By default, all tasks use the project calendar.

 

task chain (n) -  A sequence of tasks that are defined in a job template so that tasks act on the output of preceding tasks in a workflow.

 

task delegation (n) -  The process of one team member assigning a task to another team member in Project Server. When a task is delegated to another team member, that team member actually does the work on the task.

 

task dependency (n) -  A relationship between two linked tasks; linked by a dependency between their finish and start dates. There are four kinds of task dependencies: Finish-to- start [FS], Start-to-start [SS], Finish-to-finish [FF], and Start-to-finish [SF].

 

task form (n) -  A narrow and long form that appears in the task pane, which is used to view and edit related data for lookups.

 

task group (n) -  In the Concurrency Runtime, a construct that enables related, fine­grained tasks to be queued to a Task Scheduler. A task group can be used to schedule tasks, wait for tasks to finish, and cancel tasks that have not started.

 

task ID (n) -  A number that Project automatically assigns to a task as you add it to the project. The task ID indicates the position of the task with respect to the other tasks. task information (n) -  Information provided about a specific task.

 

task input panel (n) -  A small space on the To-Do Bar where the user can input tasks directly. The default label reads Type a new task'.'

 

Task Launcher (n) -  The starting point for all Works programs, contacts, appointments, templates and projects in one easy to use location.

 

task list (n) -  A list of tasks that appears in the Tasks folder and in the TaskPad in Calendar.

 

Task List (n) -  A list of tasks that appears in the Tasks folder and in the TaskPad in Calendar.

 

Task Manager (n) -  A tool that provides information about programs and processes running on the computer. Using Task Manager, you can end or run programs, end processes, and display a dynamic overview of your computer's performance. task manager (n) -  A generic service used to schedule and run caller-defined tasks. A task manager automatically breaks a transform task into threads and manages their completion, which improves the efficiency of the transform

 

task object (n) -  A Data Transformation Services (DTS) object that defines pieces of work to be performed as part of the data transformation process. For example, a task can execute an SQL statement or move and transform heterogeneous data from an OLE DB source to an OLE DB destination using the DTS Data Pump.

 

task page (n) -  A window that opens on top of a navigation place where the user completes a specific task. Task pages can open in New, Edit, View or Selection mode. A task page can contain any entities or lists of entities that the user will need to perform a task, for example, a list of entities, a document, a card, a journal or a worksheet. task pane (n) -  The area of an application window that enables the users to perform additional tasks.

 

Task Pane (PN) -  One of the major controls of the Windows Server Centro'

 

Administration Console

 

task pane app (n) -  An app for Office that resides within a task pane in a client application.

 

task pane app for Office (n) -  An app for Office that resides within a task pane in a client application.

 

Task Parallel Library (n) -  A set of public types and APIs in the System.Threading and System.Threading.Tasks namespaces in the .NET Framework version 4 and above. The purpose of the TPL is to make developers more productive by simplifying the process of adding parallelism and concurrency to applications.

 

task path (n) -  A series of tasks that includes the predecessors and successors to the task that is selected.

 

task report (n) -  Printed information about a project's tasks or activities. Task reports usually include information about start dates, work completed, and expected durations. task request (n) -  A request sent in an e-mail message asking the recipient to complete a task. If the recipient accepts the task, it is added to the recipient's task list, and the recipient becomes the new owner of the task.

 

Task Scheduler (n) -  A tool which enables users to automatically perform routine tasks on a chosen computer by monitoring whatever criteria the users choose to initiate the tasks (referred to as triggers) and then executing the tasks when the criteria is met.

 

Task Scheduler (PN) -  In the Concurrency Runtime, a component that schedules and coordinates tasks at run time. Sometimes referred to as a scheduler.

 

task sequence (n) -  The mechanism in Configuration Manager for performing multiple steps or tasks on a client computer at the command-line level without requiring user intervention.

 

task sequence execution engine (n) -  An engine that manages the sequence of task execution.

 

task template (n) -  An XML file that describes a task's configurable properties. task type (n) -  A characterization of a task based on which aspect of the task is fixed and which aspects are variable. There are three task types: Fixed Units, Fixed Work, and Fixed Duration. The default task type in Project is Fixed Units.

 

task view (n) -  A view that displays task information. Task views include three task forms; examples include Calendar, Detail Gantt, Gantt Chart, Milestone Rollup, PA_PERT Entry Sheet, Task Entry, Relationship Diagram, Task Sheet, and Task Usage.

 

Task view (PN) -  A feature that helps customers quickly switch between all the open apps and programs, and any desktops they create.

 

Task Well (n) -  An area in the Outlook Calendar module where users can display the tasks and other items assigned to that day (or week).

 

task workspace (n) -  A workspace used to store tasks and also to provide end-user collaboration for them. A Task Workspace Locator List is required to locate the appropriate workspace for a particular task type.

 

Task Workspace Locator List (PN) -  A list that is used to look up the location of a task workspace, given the details of the task type.

 

taskband (n) -  A special instance of a deskband on the taskbar that cannot be turned off by the user and offers the primary means to view and switch between the running tasks in the Windows system.

 

taskbar (n) -  The bar that contains the ‘Start' button and appears by default at the bottom of the desktop. You can click the taskbar buttons to switch between programs. You can also hide the taskbar, move it to the sides or top of the desktop, and customize it in other

 

ways.

 

Taskbar  -  In Windows, a bar across the bottom of the screen (usually - you can move it to the top or side if you want to) which contains theStart Button, the- System Tray, and- icons- which represent all the applications currently running. You can switch between applications by calling up the taskbar and clicking on the relevant icon. The taskbar can be set to remain visible all the time (the default), or only to appear when you press the- Windows key.

 

taskbar button (n) -  A button that represents an item or program that is open and running on your computer. For example, if you open Microsoft Word, and then minimize it, it will be displayed as a taskbar button, which you can then click when you want to maximize it. TaskBoard (PN) -  An app that enables a user to interact with tasks in a SharePoint list. A user can quickly move tasks between status categories to keep the list up to date. task-oriented Help (n) -  A type of Help that present the steps involved in carrying out a particular task.

 

TaskPad (n) -  The list of tasks in Calendar.

 

Tasks pane (n) -  A pane in the Service Manager console that contains tasks that a user can perform.

 

Tasks peek (n) -  A contextual summary of the user's task list, which is displayed in a callout without switching to the Tasks module.

 

tax (n) -  A charge levied by a government on products, activities and employee or

 

corporate income to finance government expenditure.

 

tax (n) -  A charge levied by a governing authority.

 

tax authority (n) -  The governmental agency that taxes are paid to.

 

tax branch (n) -  A branch office that is used to record value-added tax (VAT) and

 

inventory movement. All the branch offices of a VAT-registered legal entity are referred to

 

as tax branches. Each tax branch uses the same tax registration number as the head office

 

of the legal entity.

 

tax correction (n) -  A form that is used to file corrections to an original tax return. tax credit (n) -  A monetary amount that may be set against an entity or individual's tax liability.

 

tax exempt number (n) -  An identification number that is issued by a tax authority to indicate that a company is not required to pay sales tax.

 

tax liability (n) -  A government authority's legal claim to the assets of a legal entity. tax recovery (n) -  Expenses that are eligible to be fully or partially recovered. tax variance (n) -  The difference between an expected tax and an actual tax. taxable amount (n) -  An amount that is subject to tax.

 

taxable product (n) -  A product that is subject to taxation.

 

taxonomy (n) -  A classification of words, labels, tags, etc. into groups based on similiarities.

 

taxpayer identification number (n) -  A 9-digit number used to identify an entity (company or person) for tax reporting purposes in the U.S. There are several different types of tax identification numbers, such as employer identification number (EIN), Social Security number (SSN), individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN), and adopted taxpayer identification number (ATIN).

 

TB (n) -  A measurement used for high-capacity data storage. One terabyte equals 240, or 1,099,511,627,776, bytes, although it is commonly interpreted as simply one trillion bytes. TBH  -  (To Be Honest)- Internet slang.

 

TCG (n) -  The organization that sets standards for Trusted Platform Module (TPM) use and interface.

 

TCO (n) -  Specifically, the cost of owning, operating, and maintaining a single PC; more generally, the cost to businesses and organizations of setting up and maintaining complex and far-reaching networked computer systems. Total cost of ownership includes the up­front costs of hardware and software added to later costs of installation, personnel training, technical support, upgrades, and repairs. Industry initiatives designed to lower the total cost of ownership include centralized network management and administration, as well as hardware solutions in the form of network-based computers with or without local storage and expansion capability.

 

TCP (n) -  The protocol within TCP/IP that governs the breakup of data messages into packets to be sent via IP, and the reassembly and verification of the complete messages from packets received by IP.

 

TCP connect request (n) -  The first of three packets used to establish a TCP connection between two computers.

 

TCP port (n) -  The port assigned to handle Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) data. TCP is the transport layer protocol in theTCP/IP protocol suite.

 

TCP/IP (n) -  A set of networking protocols widely used on the Internet that provides communications across interconnected networks of computers with diverse hardware architectures and various operating systems. TCP/IP includes standards for how computers communicate and conventions for connecting networks and routing traffic.

 

TCP/IP  -  (Transfer Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)- A commonprotocol- (language) which a computer can use to communicate with other computers, particularly on the internet.

 

TCPI (n) -  The ratio of the work remaining to be done to funds remaining to be spent, as of the status date [BAC - BCWP]/[BAC - ACWP]. A TCPI value greater than one indicates a need for increased performance; less than one indicates performance can decrease.

 

Td (n) -  A vaccine for immunization against tetanus-diphtheria.

 

Tdap (n) -  A vaccine for immunization against tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis. The term acellular means that the pertussis component is cell-free, which improves safety by reducing the incidence of side effects.

 

TDD (n) -  A device that enables the transmission of typed messages over phone lines. These devices typically include keyboards for typing messages to send and display and/or printers to receive messages from one device to another.

 

TDE (PN) -  A technology for real-time I/O encryption and decryption of SQL Server and Azure SQL Database data and log file with a symmetric key without increasing the size of the encrypted database. The database encryption key (DEK) is stored in the database boot record for availability during recovery and is protected with a certificate. TDE is performed at the page level and does not provide encryption across communication channels.

 

TDI (n) -  A common set of routines for network layer components that communicate with the session layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model. These routines allow software components above and below the transport layer to be mixed and matched without reprogramming.

 

TDS (n) -  The SQL Server internal client/server data transfer protocol. TDS allows client and server products to communicate regardless of operating-system platform, server release, or network transport.

 

Teaching callout (n) -  A callout in a UI that contains help information for a new feature, is context-sensitive, and contains information in the form of text, graphics, or animations. team (n) -  A group of users who share and collaborate on business records in the system.

 

A team can consist of members who report to a single business unit (such as all sales or all customer service) or members who report to different business units (salespeople, customer service representatives, and accounting representatives).

 

Team (n) -  A privacy relationship setting that allows a large amount of information to be viewed, usually assigned to people on your team.

 

team (n) -  An organization whose members share a common responsibility, interest, or objective.

 

Team Call (PN) -  The feature that forwards a call from a team leader to an entire team according to a hunt group algorithm.

 

Team Dev (PN) -  The part of Visual Studio Team System that specifically targets team members who are in the developer role.

 

Team Edition for Software Developers (PN) -  The part of Visual Studio Team System that specifically targets team members who are in the developer role.

 

Team Edition for Software Testers (PN) -  The part of Visual Studio Team System that specifically targets team members who are in the test role.

 

Team Explorer (n) -  A client application for accessing Team Foundation Server functionality that integrates into Visual Studio 2005 when it is installed on the same computer as Visual Studio 2005. Team Explorer enables you to access the team projects you are working on and provides access to the process guidance documentation that explains the organization and workflow of each team project.

 

Team Explorer 2013 Additional Components (PN) -  Additional elements for Team Explorer, which is the client software that you use to access Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 functionality from Visual Studio.

 

Team Explorer 2013 Language Pack (PN) -  A language pack for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Team Explorer, which enables the display of the user interface in different languages. After you install the language pack, you can switch among the languages. Team Explorer for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 (PN) -  Team Explorer is the client software that you use to access Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 functionality from Visual Studio.

 

Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2013 (PN) -  Team Explorer is the client software that you use to access Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 functionality from Visual Studio.

 

Team Foundation Application (PN) -  An application existing within a Team Foundation. Team Foundation Server (n) -  A set of tools and technologies that enable a team to collaborate and coordinate their efforts on building a product or completing a project. The tools include source control, work item tracking, building, team project portal, reporting, and project management.

 

Team Foundation Server Administration Console (PN) -  A console which provides a central location for managing most aspects of Team Foundation Server.

 

Team Foundation Server Extensions (PN) -  You can integrate Visual Studio Team Foundation Server with one or more SharePoint Web applications. If you perform this integration, project managers can create a SharePoint site (referred to as a team project portal) for a team project or a site collection for a team project collection. In addition, project managers can also create libraries that contain process guidance and the documents for each team project. If you want to integrate one or more SharePoint Web applications with Team Foundation Server, you must first install and configure the Team Foundation Server Extensions for SharePoint Products on the server that is running the Web application. You can then configure mappings from Team Foundation Server to the SharePoint Web applications that you have configured with extensions.

 

Team Foundation Server SharePoint Extensions (PN) -  Required software for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server with one or more SharePoint Web applications. The Team

 

Foundation Server Extensions for SharePoint Products include site templates to which the process templates for Team Foundation Server refer when team projects are created.

 

Team Foundation Service (PN) -  Team Foundation Service is a subset of a larger suite, which is called Visual Studio Online.

 

Team Management (n) -  The Duet end-user application that enables users to view up-to- date information about other users, open positions across divisions, and organizational structures in Microsoft Office Outlook. Users can view these in Outlook in the form of Outlook Contact items or Office documents that are integrated with and retrieved from SAP systems.

 

team of peers (n) -  An organizational work model that emphasizes the use of small, cohesive teams of role specialists who communicate on an equal basis in the accomplishment of their individual and group tasks. This work model contrasts to that of the traditional top-down, linear-structure work model, and has been functionally proven in a variety of different organizations, cultures, and project sizes.

 

Team Planner (PN) -  A view that shows all of the resources on a project and their work over time. This makes it easy to rearrange work, schedule new work, and manage a team's load.

 

team project (n) -  The named collection of work items, code tests, work products, metrics, and so forth used by a defined team to track a common set of related work. team project collection (n) -  A group of team projects with similar requirements or objectives hosted on the same Team Foundation Server (TFS) that are assigned the same resources and can then be managed as an autonomous resource with its own user groups, server resources, and maintenance schedule.

 

team project collection host group (n) -  A Virtual Machine Manager host group that has been bound to a team project collection.

 

team project collection library share (n) -  A Virtual Machine Manager library share that has been bound to a team project collection.

 

team project host group (n) -  A project collection host group that has been further bound to a TFS team project for the purpose of deploying virtual environments.

 

Team Project Host Group Name (PN) -  The name of the host group in the team project collection.

 

team project library share (n) -  A project collection library share that has been further bound to a TFS team project for storage of virtual environment templates and virtual machine templates.

 

team project portal (n) -  The Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) site for each team project. A team project portal allows team members to store and share documents, reports, and information related to a specific team project.

 

Team Resources (n) -  A feature that allows task work to be assigned to a group at the resource level to rather than to an individual. The total work load of the team resource includes both each individual's and the team's. These are not project teams.

 

Team Room (n) -  A new feature that keeps a record of things that happen in a team -€“ checkins, work item updates, build failures, code reviews, etc. - and allow developers to have conversations about the activity.

 

team site (n) -  A SharePoint site created to facilitate team collaboration on projects and other efforts.

 

Team Test (PN) -  The part of Visual Studio Team System that specifically targets team members who are in the test role.

 

Team Web Access (PN) -  A developer's tool to connect to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) through a web browser and coordinate a development team. team Web site (n) -  A customizable Web site with features that help a team work together. The default site has pages for document libraries, announcements, and team events. Only members, specified by the site creator, can use the site.

 

Team Work Center (PN) -  ?A Web Part that combines a search list of projects in a site collection along with a timeline that shows how those projects relate to one another.

 

Team Workspace (PN) -  A business application that lets teams quickly organize, author, and share information with the people in their company. It provides lists for managing announcements, calendar items, tasks, discussions, favorite links, and includes a document library.

 

team-call group (n) -  A group of people who can answer calls on behalf of someone else. tearsheet (n) -  A page torn from the magazine or newspaper showing the ad that ran, as proof of performance.

 

technical account manager (n) -  A Microsoft employee who provides technical assistance to one or more specific royalty OEMs as they manufacture computers installed with a released version of Windows.

 

technical support (n) -  An organization or group that is responsible for providing technical support.

 

Techno (n) -  One of the music genres that appears under Genre classification in Windows Media Player library. Based on ID3 standard tagging format for MP3 audio files. ID3v1 genre ID # 18.

 

Techno-Industrial (n) -  One of the music genres that appears under Genre classification in Windows Media Player library. Based on ID3 standard tagging format for MP3 audio files. ID3v1 genre ID # 51.

 

Technology Guarantee (PN) -  The promotional program that encourages OEM Direct and System Builder Channel (SBC) to upgrade to Office 2007 and retail customers to upgrade to Office 2007 and/or Windows Vista.

 

technosphere (n) -  The entities that are outside the organization's operational boundary. Materials that come from the technosphere are bought or sold, rather than acquired from the environment.

 

Teen (n) -  A game rating symbol developed by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB).

 

telecine (n) -  The film-to-video conversion system that adds frames to video to compensate for the differences in frame rates between film and video. telecoil (n) -  A component of a hearing aid that is activated for use with a hearing aid compatible telephone.

 

Telematics  -  Blend of telecommunications and informatics (another term for IT). This area of research studies the interrelationships between different communications engineering fields

 

telemetry (n) -  The automatic measurement and transmission of data from remote sources by wired or wireless communication means. Telemetry technology is used in a wide variety of applications.

 

telemetry (n) -  Data that shows how partner products are used including where, how often, with which other software and hardware. This helps them identify user needs and experiences as well as potential marketing and product improvement opportunities over time. Partners and Microsoft can better understand what happens between planning, lab testing, sales data, and real world scenarios over time.

 

telemetry data (n) -  Data that shows how partner products are used including where, how often, with which other software and hardware. This helps them identify user needs and experiences as well as potential marketing and product improvement opportunities over time. Partners and Microsoft can better understand what happens between planning, lab testing, sales data, and real world scenarios over time.

 

telephone device for the deaf (n) -  A device that enables the transmission of typed messages over phone lines. These devices typically include keyboards for typing messages to send and display and/or printers to receive messages from one device to another. telephone typewriter device (n) -  A device that enables the transmission of typed messages over phone lines. These devices typically include keyboards for typing messages to send and display and/or printers to receive messages from one device to another. Telephone User Interface (n) -  An interface that is used to navigate the menus of a Unified Messaging (UM) system using DTMF or touchtone inputs.

 

telephony (n) -  A telephone technology; voice, fax, or modem transmissions based on either the conversion of sound into electrical signals or wireless communication by means of radio waves.

 

Telephony API (n) -  An application programming interface (API) used by

 

communications programs to work with telephony and network services.

 

Telephony Conferencing Server (n) -  A service that runs on an Office Communications Server Front End Server and that enables multiparty conferencing with PSTN callers connecting through an audio conferencing provider.

 

television (n) -  An electronic system of transmitting transient images of fixed or moving objects together with sound through space by an apparatus that converts light and sound into electrical waves and reconverts them into visible light rays and audible sound.

 

Tell a friend (PN) -  The standard display text for mailto: link for sending a link to a page, typically used when asking someone to view but not participate in something.

 

Tell Me (PN) -  A feature that enables users to search for user interface controls. telnet (n) -  A client or server program that implements the Telnet protocol.

 

Telnet (n) -  A protocol that enables an Internet user to log on to and enter commands on a remote computer linked to the Internet, as if the user were using a text-based terminal directly attached to that computer. Telnet is part of the TCP/IP suite of protocols. tempdb (n) -  A system database that is re-created every time the server is started. template (n) -  A file that contains some pre-defined formatting, layout, and/or text and graphics and that serves as the basis for new documents with a similar look or purpose. template (n) -  A library resource consisting of a guest operating system profile, a hardware profile, and one or more virtual hard disks (.vhd files), which can be used to create a new virtual machine. Computer identify information must have been removed from the .vhd file that contains the operating system files by using the System Preparation tool (Sysprep). Self-service users must use designated templates to create their virtual machines.

 

template (n) -  A reusable set of properties defining the look of a control. A template can be shared between instances of the same object type.

 

template (n) -  In ASP.NET: A declarative page fragment that is used to provide a visual interface for a templated ASP.NET server control. A template contains presentation elements that include literal text, HTML, and data-binding expressions, as well as declarative syntax elements that represent ASP.NET server controls.

 

template (n) -  A method that is used to populate initial values in a class, such as a change request or incident.

 

template binding (n) -  A binding between a property on an element in a control template and a property on the control instance to which the template is applied. For example, a Button's Background property changes and, because a Rectangle in its template is template bound to that property, the Rectangle changes color.

 

Template Manager (n) -  A sub-area of the Settings module where the user manages e­mail, contract, and article templates.

 

template node (n) -  The design-time access point to the Items Collection Editor for a ToolStrip, MenuStrip, ContextMenuStrip, or StatusStrip control.

 

Template Part (n) -  A customized set of controls that can be saved for reuse in multiple form templates. Template parts are saved as custom controls in the Controls task pane. template part (n) -  One of the available constructs that make up a UI template for a portal extension.

 

template set (n) -  In ASP.NET mobile controls: A collection of templates associated with a templated control.

 

templated control (n) -  An ASP.NET server control that does not itself provide a visual interface but allows its users (page developers) to supply templates that provide a visual interface. When the ASP.NET page parser encounters a templated control, it parses the control's template and dynamically creates child controls that supply the visual interface. The Repeater and DataList ASP.NET server controls are templated controls. The DataGrid control is not strictly a templated control, but uses templates to customize its user interface.

 

Templates (n) -  A button that redirects the user to the Templates section in the Works Task Launcher.

 

temporary consumer (n) -  An event consumer that receives event notifications only while the consumer is active.

 

temporary node (n) -  A node that is created as a result of an administrator action and that displays in the navigation pane for the current console session only. temporary procedure (n) -  A procedure placed in the temporary database, tempdb, and erased at the end of the session.

 

temporary smart card (n) -  A non-permanent smart card issued to a user for replacement of a lost smart card or to a user that requires access for a limited time. temporary stored procedure (n) -  A procedure placed in the temporary database, tempdb, and erased at the end of the session.

 

temporary table (n) -  A table placed in the temporary database, tempdb, and erased at the end of the session.

 

tenant (n) -  A client organization that is served from a single instance of an application by a web service. A company can install one instance of software on a set of servers and offer Software as a Service to multiple tenants.

 

tenant administrator (n) -  A user account that has been assigned as an administrator for the tenant.

 

Tenant Administrator (PN) -  An administrator with a Tenant Administrator user role. Tenant Administrator user role (PN) -  A user role that allows the user to create and manage self-service users and VM networks, specify which tasks the self-service users can perform on their virtual machines and services, and place quotas on computing resources and virtual machines.

 

tenant-level external data log (n) -  An error log that contains errors and exceptions that occur when SharePoint tries to connect to external systems through Business Connectivity Services. It can be retrieved by tenant administrators.

 

tender (n) -  Something used as a medium of payment.

 

tender declaration (n) -  A count of the coins and bills at the POS; for example, as part of the end of day or end of shift procedure.

 

Tent card (n) -  One of the page size options available in Publisher for printing a folded card. This option prints two pages per sheet of paper.

 

tentative (adj) -  An open service activity status that denotes that the resources are not scheduled to perform work for this service activity.

 

tentative (adj) -  Pertaining to time on a schedule when a person may participate in a scheduled task.

 

tent-fold card (n) -  A top-fold card with four pages. Page one becomes the front cover, pages two and three are the inside pages, and page four is the back of the card. terabyte (n) -  A measurement used for high-capacity data storage. One terabyte equals 240, or 1,099,511,627,776, bytes, although it is commonly interpreted as simply one trillion bytes.

 

Terabyte  -  Unit of measurement for pieces of information : approximately 1 trillion bytes, 1 billion kilobytes, 1 million megabytes or 1000 gigabytes. That's a- lot- of data. Teredo bubble packet (n) -  A data packet that is typically sent to create or maintain a NAT mapping and consists of an IPv6 header with no IPv6 payload.

 

Teredo relay (n) -  An IPv6/IPv4 router that can forward packets between Teredo clients on the IPv4 Internet (using a Teredo tunneling interface) and IPv6-only hosts. term (n) -  A word or phrase that stands for a concept used in a particular subject area. term end date (n) -  The date at the end of a subscription. For example, in Microsoft Online Services, there are a variety of services that a customer may subscribe to, and each subscription has its own term length (e.g., 6 months, 12 months) and term end date. term extraction (n) -  The procedure of reviewing completed files/documents for the purpose of automatically identifying words and phrases with specialized technical meaning.

 

term harvesting (n) -  The procedure of reviewing completed files/documents for the purpose of identifying words and phrases with specialized technical meaning and collecting them in a separate document.

 

term license  -  A type of software agreement wherein the customer pays maintenance fees for use of the software over a specified term and, unless the license is renewed, has no right to use the software after the term expires.

 

term mining (n) -  The procedure of reviewing completed files/documents for the purpose of automatically identifying words and phrases with specialized technical meaning. term set (n) -  A collection of related terms.

 

term store (n) -  A database that stores managed metadata, including term sets, terms, and managed keywords.

 

Term Studio (PN) -  A terminology management database that allows product contributors across Microsoft to document, standardize and share important information about concepts, their synonyms and equivalents.

 

terminal  -  Simple device at which data can be entered or retrieved from a network. Generally, terminals have a monitor and a keyboard, but no processor or local disk drive. Terminal Adaptor  -  A piece of hardware similar to a modem, required to operate anISDN- internet connection.

 

Terminal Services session (n) -  A Terminal Services session.

 

terminate (v) -  With reference to software, to end a process or program.

 

terminate-and-stay-resident (n) -  A program that remains loaded in memory even when it is not running, so that it can be quickly invoked for a specific task performed while another program is operating.

 

termination (n) -  The ending of a thread, process, or program.

 

terminologist (n) -  A person who studies, documents, and recommends the standard usage

 

of terms and their associated concepts within a given subject area.

 

terminology (n) -  The study of terms and their associated concepts.

 

terminology (n) -  A set of terms used in a particular subject field.

 

terminology database (n) -  A database containing terminological data.

 

terminology management (n) -  The investigation, documentation, and consistent reuse of

 

terms and their associated concepts.

 

Terms (PN) -  The link to the Microsoft service agreement.

 

terms (n) -  The contractual provisions and major terms agreed to by the parties to an agreement.

 

terms and conditions (n) -  The contractual provisions and major terms agreed to by the parties to an agreement.

 

Terms of use (PN) -  The link to the Microsoft service agreement.

 

Terms of Use (PN) -  A document that covers how users may use Skype software, Skype products, and the Skype website.

 

terms of use (n) -  A legal notice that establishes the terms under which service is provided.

 

territory (n) -  The area in the country/region where an account is located.

 

Terror (n) -  One of the music genres that appears under Genre classification in Windows Media Player library. Based on ID3 standard tagging format for MP3 audio files. Winamp genre ID # 130.

 

tertiary domain (n) -  A DNS domain located directly beneath another domain name (the parent domain) in the namespace tree. For example, example.microsoft.com' would be a subdomain of the domain ‘microsoft.com'.'

 

test (v) -  To check program correctness by trying out various sequences and input values. test (n) -  A program, a script (manual or automated), a specific set of steps, or general instructions that can be run repeatedly against software, and that will yield a result such as pass, fail, or other results that resolve to pass or fail, such as inconclusive.

 

Test Access Port (n) -  A collection of boundary scan control signals that define a serial protocol for scan-based devices. There are five pins, TCK/clock, TMS/mode select, TDI/data in, TDO/data out, and TRST/reset.

 

test adapter (n) -  The code assembly that is responsible for loading a particular type of test.

 

test agent (n) -  A background process that receives, runs, and reports on tests and collects data on a single computer. The test agent communicates with test agent controller, usually located on another computer.

 

test agent controller (n) -  A background process that manages a set of machines with the test agent software installed.

 

Test Agent Installer service (PN) -  The service of installing a test agent.

 

test approach (n) -  The test goals, coverage, techniques, and data for the project and each of the iterations.

 

test case (n) -  A specification that describes the goals of a test, the results that the test might produce, the circumstances in which it will be run, and how it should be implemented.

 

test class (n) -  Any class that is marked with the TestClass attribute.

 

test condition (n) -  In a database unit test, a set of frequently used validation functions that test whether a unit test returns the expected results.

 

test configuration (n) -  A set of configuration variables that specify the correct setup required for testing an application.

 

Test connection (n) -  The act of testing connectivity with a directory or application Test Controller 2013 (PN) -  An application designed for Visual Studio 2013, which executes test cases on your PC or in a test lab. You can execute the test cases on your local PC, or schedule a test run.

 

Test Controller 2013 Language Pack (PN) -  A language pack for Microsoft Test Controller for Visual Studio 2013, which enables the display of the user interface in different languages. After you install the language pack, you can switch among the languages.

 

test deployment (n) -  The deployment of tests and all dependent files noted by the user or the system from their default location (for example, bin/debug) to the execution directory. test developer (n) -  A tester typically assigned to authoring coded tests.

 

Test Drive (n) -  A scaled-down version of a product where a user can try out different features before buying it.

 

Test Effectiveness (PN) -  A report that communicates the amount of code covered or exercised for a particular test run.

 

test environment (n) -  An environment that corresponds as closely as possible to the production environment and within which system and user acceptance tests can be carried out.

 

test fake (n) -  A mechanism that allows you to isolate part of an application so that it can be tested separately from another part on which it would be dependent in typical operation. During testing, a test fake executes instead of the methods and properties of the other part. The actions and return values of the test fake are under the control of the test. Within Visual Studio, a test fake takes the form of either a test stub or a test shim. test file (n) -  A file used as part of a testing process to check the validity or correctness of a program or procedure.

 

test harness (n) -  An application that loads test adapters and owns the process that executes tests.

 

test list (n) -  A list of tests that can be selected and managed from Test Manager.

 

Test List Editor (PN) -  The window in Visual Studio Team System that is used to manage, execute, and control large numbers of tests and test lists.

 

test method (n) -  Any method that is marked with the TestMethod attribute. You cannot run a unit test if its test method is not in a test class. test metric (n) -  A unit of measure for testing.

 

test metric threshold (n) -  A goal for the project, measured using a test metric.

 

test mix (n) -  A formula that defines the probability of a virtual user running a given test

 

in a load test scenario.

 

Test mode (n) -  A Directory Services option on the Accounts page. When a customer is running in Test mode, all e-mail for recipients who are not on the user list is redirected to a separate e-mail address after filtering (thus this mail is not rejected).

 

Test Mode/Live Mode (n) -  The modes on the Accounts page for a custom spam filter policy rule to run in. A rule can be run in test mode to monitor what would happen if rule were deployed, or in live mode, where the rule is actually deployed.

 

test plan (n) -  A set of test cases and their associated test configuration information and the iteration when it is planned to run these tests. The test cases can be organized into a test suite hierarchy.

 

test point (n) -  A pairing of a test case and a test configuration.

 

Test Professional 2013 (PN) -  Version of Visual Studio 2013 integrates testers and other stakeholders into the development workflow to enable in-context collaboration with developers.

 

Test Professional 2013 Language Pack - ENU (PN) -  Language Pack is a free add-on that you can use to switch the language that's displayed in the Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional 2013 user interface.

 

test project (n) -  A project created specifically to hold test types.

 

test result (n) -  The verdict from executing a test: pass, fail, or inconclusive.

 

Test Results (oth) -  A window which displays the current status of every test in the test run.

 

Test Results window (n) -  A window which displays the current status of every test in the test run.

 

test run (n) -  A set of pairings of test cases and test configurations to be run. The results of this set of pairings can be viewed together. Test runs are either automated or manual. test script (n) -  A defined requirement that is checked against a product and yields either a pass or a fail result. Pass indicates meeting the requirement and fail indicates not meeting the requirement.

 

test settings (n) -  A set of variables that define how tests are going to be run and any data to be collected or system actions taken while tests are run. For example, collect code coverage data or emulate a specific network.

 

test shim (n) -  A type of test fake that works by introducing a detour to the entry point of methods or properties that are called by a unit under test. The shim is executed instead of the existing code, and is under the control of the tests. A shim can be applied to any code, even if it was not designed to be isolated during testing.

 

test step (n) -  An action to be taken when the test is run, and possibly the expected result from that action.

 

test stub (n) -  A type of test fake that is an alternative implementation of an interface or class that is called by a unit under test. The test stub is under the control of the unit tests. Designing a system so that its parts can be replaced by test stubs results in more flexible code.

 

test suite (n) -  A set of selected test cases. A test suite can contain other test suites, but each test suite can be contained in only one other test suite.

 

test suite type id (n) -  A unique identifier that is assigned to a type of selected test cases. test task (n) -  An assignment to create test cases and test a specific area of the product, usually in the context of a scenario or quality of service requirement.

 

test type (n) -  A set of functionality and/or a template to help expose parts of the underlying test framework.

 

Test View (PN) -  A window that allows you to navigate to your tests for editing (authoring).

 

Test View window (n) -  A window that allows you to navigate to your tests for editing (authoring).

 

TestClass attribute (n) -  The attribute put on a class element to indicate it contains coded tests.

 

TestMethod attribute (n) -  The attribute added to a method element to indicate it is a coded test.

 

tetanus and diphtheria vaccine (n) -  A vaccine for immunization against tetanus- diphtheria.

 

tetanus, diphtheria and acellular pertussis vaccine (n) -  A vaccine for immunization against tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis. The term acellular means that the pertussis component is cell-free, which improves safety by reducing the incidence of side effects. tethering  -  enables your cellular telephone or similar Internet-enabled mobile device to connect other devices such as netbooks, laptops or PDAs to the Internet. Mobile phones that offer tethering typically connect to other devices via Bluetooth or a USB cable in order to provide them with Internet access.

 

TETRAGRAM FOR DEFECTIVENESS OR DISTORTION (n) -  The Unicode character U+1D30F, which represents a Tai Xuan Jing symbol.

 

text (n) -  In word processing and desktop publishing, the main portion of a document, as opposed to headlines, tables, figures, footnotes, and other elements.

 

Text (n) -  A field data type that can contain up to 255 characters or the number of characters specified by the Fieldsize property, whichever is less.

 

Text (PN) -  A tool that lets you create blocks of text characters. Each character in a text block can have its own stroke and fill.

 

text (v) -  To send text messages from a mobile phone or device.

 

text (n) -  A short alphanumeric message that is sent between mobile phones or devices using the SMS protocol.

 

text attributes (n) -  Any characteristic of text, such as font, size, style, color, or effect such as subscript or superscript.

 

text block (n) -  The text area associated with a shape that appears when you click the shape with the text tool or select it with the pointer tool.

 

text box (n) -  A rectangular control in an application that allows the user to enter or edit text.

 

Text Cycle (PN) -  A SmartArt graphic layout used to represent a continuing sequence of stages, tasks, or events in a circular flow. Emphasizes the arrows or flow rather than the stages or steps. Works best with Level 1 text only.

 

text direction (n) -  The direction text is written in a document, for instance left to right, right to left, horizontal or vertical.

 

Text Display Size (n) -  An item on the Edit menu that displays a list of relative text sizes for instant message text.

 

text document (n) -  A document that contains alphanumeric information, not just 0s and 1s.

 

text editor (n) -  A program that creates files or makes changes to existing files.

 

text effect (n) -  A visual effect that colors, tweaks, or otherwise graphically alters fonts.

 

text field (n) -  A standard Windows control that displays static or dynamic text.

 

text file (n) -  A file composed of text characters. A text file can be a word-processing file

 

or a plain' ASCII file encoded in a format practically all computers can use.'

 

text flow (n) -  The way text is displayed in a document, how it behaves and breaks

 

according to settings.

 

text formatting (n) -  Formatting that controls the appearance of a text. Examples include text alignment, intercharacter spacing, text justification, and text and background colors. text frame (n) -  An area within a shape that can contain text.

 

text harvesting (n) -  A process of extending a handwriting recognizer's lexicon by gathering and storing the user's vocabulary.

 

text label (n) -  Descriptive text that you can add to a form, worksheet, chart, or other document.

 

text message (n) -  A short alphanumeric message that is sent between mobile phones or devices using the SMS protocol.

 

text messaging (n) -  The process of creating and sending text messages between or to mobile phones and devices using the SMS protocol.

 

text mode (n) -  A display mode in which the monitor can display letters, numbers, and other text characters but no graphical images or WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you- get') character formatting (italics

 

text notification (n) -  A type of text e-mail reminder that includes a URL and brief instructions for the user about how to log on and view the spam that was sent to that user's address. This text is customizable on the Spam Filter page.

 

text object (n) -  An entity containing text in a document, for instance a text box or table cell.

 

text placeholder (n) -  A symbolic value used instead of a real value which in this case is text.

 

text prediction (n) -  A recognition feature that helps increase input speed and reduce effort by providing users with word completion and next word prediction alternates as the user is writing/typing.

 

text query (n) -  One or more phrases that can contain operators, quotation marks, wildcards such as * or ?, and parentheses.

 

text reply (n) -  A predetermined text reply that can be automatically sent in response to incoming calls, text messages, or both when Driving Mode is turned on. The text reply is sent with no action on the part of the user.

 

text reply (n) -  A response to an incoming call using a text message when the caller is a contact calling from a mobile phone.

 

text segment (n) -  A unit of text, for example a word, a phrase, a sentence, a paragraph, a document.

 

text service (n) -  A program that enables a user to enter or edit text. Text services include keyboard layouts, handwriting and speech recognition programs, and Input Method Editors (IMEs). IMEs are used to enter East Asian language characters with a keyboard. Text Services Framework (PN) -  A device-independent, language-neutral, and extensible system that enables natural language services and advanced text input on the desktop and within applications.

 

Text slide (n) -  A blank collaborative slide on which participants can type notes or comments.

 

text stream (n) -  A type of encoded output that can be included in a Smooth Streaming presentation, such as captions.

 

text string (n) -  A group of characters or character bytes representing text handled as a single entity.

 

text suggestion (n) -  A word that's suggested as users type, which they can select to quickly insert.

 

text telephone (n) -  A device that enables the transmission of typed messages over phone lines. These devices typically include keyboards for typing messages to send and display and/or printers to receive messages from one device to another.

 

text telephony (n) -  A feature that enables those who are deaf or speech impaired to use the telephone with a teletypewriter.

 

text tone (n) -  The sound the phone makes when the user receives a text message. text window (n) -  A window containing a text document.

 

text wrap (n) -  The ability of a word-processing program or a text-editing program to break lines of text automatically to stay within the page margins or window boundaries of a document without the user having to do so with carriage returns, as is typically necessary on a typewriter.

 

text wrapping (n) -  A feature that consists of advanced text wrap functionality, allowing the user to select from various styles to specify how text flows around objects or graphics in a document.

 

text writer (n) -  In ASP.NET mobile controls: A mechanism that allows device adapters to write their output through an object. A text writer object is created from the TextWriter base class.

 

Text-Based Designer (PN) -  A text-based workflow editor that enables users to create and edit workflows by using declarative statements.

 

text-mode Setup (n) -  The second of the three stages of Setup, where the basic hardware of the computer (CPU, motherboard, hard disk controllers, file systems, and memory) is determined, the base operating system necessary to continue is installed, and specified folders are created.

 

text-only file (n) -  A document file in ASCII format, containing characters, spaces, punctuation, carriage returns, and sometimes tabs and an end-of-file marker, but no formatting information.

 

text-to-speech (n) -  Pertaining to technologies for converting textual (ASCII) information into synthetic speech output. Used in voice-processing applications requiring production of broad, unrelated, and unpredictable vocabularies, such as products in a catalog or names and addresses. This technology is appropriate when system design constraints prevent the more efficient use of speech concatenation alone.

 

text-to-speech engine (n) -  The component of Speech Engine Services that processes text input and produces speech output by synthesizing words and phrases. texture (n) -  A rectangular array of pixels applied to a visual object.

 

TFS (n) -  A set of tools and technologies that enable a team to collaborate and coordinate their efforts on building a product or completing a project. The tools include source control, work item tracking, building, team project portal, reporting, and project management.

 

TFS service (n) -  The service that Team Foundation Server (TFS) uses. Team Foundation Server includes many services that run on the application tier. Your actual services will vary based on which features of Team Foundation you have installed.

 

TFT  -  (Thin Film Transistor)- A technology used originally in- laptopscreens for giving a sharp and vibrant colour display. Much less bulky than the- CRT- system used in most desktop monitors, which it is now widely replacing.

 

TFTP (n) -  A formal set of format, timing, sequencing, and error control rules for transferring files to and from a remote computer system running the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) service.

 

TG (n) -  A contact list, similar to an alias, that allows the talk to reach a list of users at once by the push-to-talk functionality.

 

TGA (n) -  A photorealistic graphics file format designed for systems with a TARGA Truevision display adapter.

 

thank you note (n) -  A note or email message sent to a person to thank them for

 

something received, or for a meeting.

 

thaw (v) -  In I/O operations, to allow execution of a thread.

 

theater mode (n) -  A feature in Internet Explorer whereby the object's main window fills the entire screen and displays a toolbar with a minimal set of navigational buttons. A status bar is also provided in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.

 

theater view (n) -  A view where the preview is centered in a PowerPivot Gallery SharePoint document library and lets you rotate through the available worksheets. Smaller thumbnails of each worksheet appear lower on the page, on either side.

 

theme (n) -  A set of coordinated graphic elements applied to a document or Web page, or across all pages in a Web site. Themes can consist of designs and color schemes for fonts, link bars, and other page elements.

 

theme (n) -  In ASP.NET, a collection of control properties, stylesheets, and images that can be applied as a unit to a page or Web site to define an overall appearance. theme (n) -  A collection of visual elements and sounds for your computer desktop or device User Interface. A theme determines the look of the various visual elements of your User Interface, such as windows, icons, fonts, and colors, and it can include sounds. theme (n) -  A set of colors and background images that lets users change the appearance of Windows Live pages. The theme is common to all pages, except for group, event, and space pages, which may each have their own theme.

 

theme color (n) -  One of a set of colors that is used in a file. Theme colors, theme fonts, and theme effects compose a theme.

 

theme effect (n) -  One of a set of visual attributes that is applied to elements in a file. Theme effects, theme colors, and theme fonts compose a theme. theme engine (n) -  The program module that applies a predefined graphic theme to the user interface.

 

theme family (n) -  A set of variants on a single theme.

 

theme font (n) -  One of a set of major and minor fonts that is applied to a file. Theme fonts, theme colors, and theme effects compose a theme.

 

theme pack (n) -  A renamed .cab file which contains a .theme file, and optionally one or more desktop backgrounds, icons, mouse pointer files, and sound files. It does not contain executables or screen savers.

 

theme resource (n) -  A file of supported type used in a theme.

 

theme variant (n) -  One of the variations of a theme that make up a theme family.

 

Themes (PN) -  The Personalization subcategory containing apps with special themes for your PC and phone.

 

thesaurus (n) -  An integrated proofing tool used to search on common words and display synonyms.

 

Thesaurus pane (PN) -  A pane that provides synonym lookup and display functionality. theta join (n) -  A join based on a comparison of scalar values.

 

Thick (or fat) client  -  Thick clients, also called heavy clients, are full-featured computers that are connected to a network.

 

thin (adj) -  Having a font weight that corresponds to a weight class value of 100 according to the OpenType specification.

 

Thin Client  -  A type of client/server computing where applications are run, and data is stored, on the server rather than on the client. Because the applications are executed on the server, they do not require client-resident installation, although the- GUI- and some application logic may be rendered to the client.

 

thin provisioning (n) -  A mechanism that allows administrators to set policies on storage utilization such that storage can be dynamically allocated from or returned to a larger aggregated pool of storage, depending on client usage.

 

thin rendering (n) -  The process of rendering server-based spreadsheets, diagrams, or other documents in a browser using an application server.

 

Things to try (PN) -  A topic title used to introduce more information on what a user may want to try to make better use of a particular tool, feature, etc.

 

think profile (n) -  A property that indicates whether think times are used or ignored in load tests. The think profile applies to an entire scenario in a load test. Its state are: On,

 

Off, Normal Distribution.

 

think time (n) -  The elapsed time between the receipt of a reply to one request and the submission of the next request. For example, if it takes about 60 seconds for a user to enter all the information required for a Web-based time-entry form, 60 seconds is the think time for this scenario.

 

thin-provisioned (adj) -  Of, pertaining to, storage that allows thin provisioning. third party (n) -  A company that manufactures and sells accessories or peripherals for use with a major manufacturer's computer or peripheral, usually without any involvement from the major manufacturer.

 

third-level domain (n) -  A DNS domain located directly beneath another domain name (the parent domain) in the namespace tree. For example, example.microsoft.com' would be a subdomain of the domain ‘microsoft.com'.'

 

third-party installer (n) -  A software installation development solution offered by a company other than Microsoft.

 

third-party installer (n) -  A program that installs software, offered by a company other than Microsoft.

 

third-party logistics (n) -  A party that provides logistics services to customers. third-party update (n) -  An update published by a company other than Microsoft.

 

Thrash metal (n) -  One of the music genres that appears under Genre classification in Windows Media Player library. Based on ID3 standard tagging format for MP3 audio files. Winamp genre ID # 144.

 

thread (n) -  A type of object within a process that runs program instructions. Using multiple threads allows concurrent operations within a process and enables one process to run different parts of its program on different processors simultaneously. A thread has its own set of registers, its own kernel stack, a thread environment block, and a user stack in the address space of its process.

 

thread (n) -  All published reactions (such as comments, likes, and retweets) to a single post.

 

thread (n) -  An instant message or text message conversation between two or more participants.

 

thread  -  In Mach, the unit of CPU utilization. A thread consists of a program counter, a set of registers, and a stack pointer.

 

thread component (n) -  An SMS/Configuration Manager program that runs as a thread of the SMS Executive service component. A thread component can be started and stopped through the SMS/Configuration Manager Service Manager.

 

Thread Count (n) -  In Task Manager, the number of threads running in a process. thread local (n) -  A mechanism that uses static or global memory local to a thread by which variables are allocated such that there is one instance of the variable per extant thread.

 

thread safety (n) -  The ability for multiple threads to access and share data in a correct way.

 

threading model (n) -  The model that determines how the methods of an application's component are assigned to threads in order to be executed.

 

thread-safe (adj) -  Pertaining to multithreaded applications and how threads share and access data.

 

threat (n) -  A possible entry point to an asset that could be used by an adversary to adversely affect that asset.

 

threat model (n) -  A systematic analysis of identifying assets, and assessing and documenting the security risks associated with those assets exposed via software. The threat modeling process involves an understanding of the goals of an adversary in attacking a system based on the systems assets of interest. The scope of the threat model is defined by the scope of functionality of software being modeled.

 

threat type (n) -  A category of entry points to an asset that could be used by an adversary to adversely affect that asset. Threat types include: Spoofing identity, Tampering with data, Repudiation, Information disclosure, Denial of Service, and Elevation of Privilege. three-dimensional (adj) -  Of, pertaining to, or being an object or image having or appearing to have all three spatial dimensions (length, width, and depth). three-factor authentication (n) -  An authentication method that requires three authentication methods, which may include something the user provides, such as certificates; something the user knows, such as user names, passwords, or pass phrases; physical attributes, such as a thumbprint; and personal attributes, such as a personal signature.

 

three-way handshake (n) -  The method for initializing a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) session between two hosts on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. The three-way handshake synchronizes the sequence number and acknowledgment numbers of the two hosts establishing a connection, exchanges TCP window sizes, and exchanges other TCP options, such as the maximum segment size.

 

three-way matching policy (n) -  A matching policy that requires one or more vendor invoice prices to match with one or more purchase order prices and that requires one or more vendor invoice quantities to match with one or more product receipt quantities. threshold (n) -  A limit against which other values can be compared. When a value crosses this limit, it can trigger an alert or other action.

 

Threshold (n) -  A filter effect in Windows Movie Maker.

 

threshold filtering (n) -  The process of reducing a full-color image to an eight-color image. This is done by setting a value for a threshold, which is the cutoff value for each color component of a sample.

 

threshold rule (n) -  A rule that is set on an individual performance counter to monitor system resource usage during a load test.

 

threshold value (n) -  A limit against which other values can be compared. When a value crosses this limit, it can trigger an alert or other action.

 

Thrift (PN) -  A software framework for scalable cross-language service development.

 

Thrift server (n) -  A Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that can be used to

 

develop scalable cross-language services.

 

throttle (n) -  A process that restricts the flow of data.

 

throttling (n) -  The process of setting the maximum portion of total network capacity that a service is allowed to use. An administrator can deliberately limit a servers Internet workload by not allowing it to receive requests at full capacity, thus saving resources for other programs, such as e-mail.

 

throttling (n) -  The restriction in the flow of data when the total throughput across Event Hubs in exceeds the aggregate throughput unit allowances .

 

throughput (n) -  The data transfer rate of a network, measured as the number of bits per second transmitted.

 

throughput (n) -  The total amount of output produced by a resource.

 

Throughput  -  The volume of work or information flowing through a system.

 

Throughput  -  In data communications, the total traffic between stations over a period of time.

 

Throughput  -  A measure of the amount of information transmitted over a network in a given period of time.

 

Throughput Unit Hours (n) -  The unit of measure to compute the total amount of a Data Lake workload.

 

thumb (n) -  The part of a slider control that can be moved to set the slider position. thumb control (n) -  The part of a slider control that can be moved to set the slider position.

 

Thumb drive  -  A computer storage device about the size of a man's thumb, often carried on a keyring, which plugs into a PC- USB- port and is seen by the PC as an extra drive - a very convenient way to carry large amounts of data around.

 

thumb keyboard (n) -  A split on-screen keyboard that is optimized for thumb typing. thumbnail (n) -  A miniature version of an image that is often used for quick browsing through multiple images.

 

thumbnail image (n) -  A miniature version of an image that is often used for quick browsing through multiple images.

 

thumbnail pane (n) -  A type of pane that presents the current scanned document as one or more small images.

 

thumbnail picture (n) -  A miniature version of an image that is often used for quick browsing through multiple images.

 

thumbnail toolbar (n) -  A toolbar control that is embedded in a window's thumbnail preview. Thumbnail toolbars are a feature of pinned sites in Internet Explorer 9. thumbprint (n) -  A hexadecimal string that contains the SHA-1 hash of the certificate. thunk (n) -  A small section of code that performs a translation or conversion during a call or indirection. For example, a thunk is used to change the size or type of function parameters when calling between 16-bit and 32-bit code.

 

thunk (v) -  To call 32-bit code from 16-bit code, or vice versa. Thunking involves, in large part, the translation to and from 16-bit segment offset memory addressing and 32-bit flat, or linear, memory addressing.

 

tick (n) -  A regular, rapidly recurring signal emitted by a clocking circuit.

 

tick count (n) -  A monotonically increasing number that is used to uniquely identify a change to an item in a replica.

 

tick mark (n) -  A small line of measurement, similar to a division on a ruler, that intersects an axis.

 

tick mark label (n) -  A label that identifies the categories, values, or series in a chart. ticker (PN) -  A feature that displays the prices of securities; name is derived from a telegraphic receiving instrument that automatically printed stock quotations on ticker tape. ticker symbol (n) -  An identification code used to identify a publicly traded corporation on a particular stock market.

 

Ticker Tape (n) -  A title animation in Windows Movie Maker.

 

Ticket (n) -  A record within Parature of a case, issue, or question that is submitted by a Customer or by a CSR on behalf of a Customer.

 

tick-mark label (n) -  A label that identifies the categories, values, or series in a chart.

 

TID (n) -  A 9-digit number used to identify an entity (company or person) for tax reporting purposes in the U.S. There are several different types of tax identification numbers, such as employer identification number (EIN), Social Security number (SSN), individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN), and adopted taxpayer identification number (ATIN).

 

tidal volume (n) -  The volume of air inspired or expired at each breath.

 

TIE (PN) -  The engine that detects and decides what a gesture (tap, pinch, zoom) means. tier (n) -  An element of a service template that contains the configuration settings necessary to deploy a particular portion of a service.

 

tiered storage (n) -  Storage that supports multiple storage tiers within a pool and ways to maintain data in each storage tier.

 

tiering engine (n) -  A service that tracks regions of storage and may move data between them based on an input/output policy or other administrator-specified rules. tiering policy engine (n) -  A service that tracks regions of storage and may move data between them based on an input/output policy or other administrator-specified rules.

 

TIFF (n) -  A high resolution, tag-based image format used for scanning, storing, and combining graphic images.

 

TIFF, Tif  -  (Tagged Image File Format)- A type of graphics (picture) file, often used for photographs. The files are usually huge, as the data is not compressed. Files in this format usually have names ending .tif .

 

tilde (n) -  The  -  character.

 

TILDE (n) -  The  -  character.

 

tile (v) -  In computer-graphics programming, to fill adjacent blocks of pixels on the screen with a design or pattern without allowing any blocks to overlap.

 

tile (v) -  To fill the space on a monitor or within a smaller area with multiple copies of the same graphic image.

 

tile (v) -  To print a document in overlapping pieces.

 

tile (n) -  An image that uses approved product signature lockups, key brand and product identity elements and colors, and the Microsoft logo.

 

tile (n) -  A moveable object on the Start screen that opens apps or other customized content, like pinned websites.

 

tile (n) -  A UI element consisting of a rectangle that contains a set of data. Tiles can often be rearranged or hidden.

 

tile (n) -  An element in a control template that has special, possibly mandatory, significance and semantics in the functioning of the control. For example, a template for a ScrollBar control should supply a Thumb part for the ScrollBar to function correctly, but it need not provide a small decrease or a small increase button.

 

tile brush (n) -  A brush used to fill the interiors of graphical shapes such as rectangles, ellipses, pies, polygons, and paths with a tile pattern.

 

tile horizontally (v) -  To rearrange and resize open files or windows into horizontal tiles that display above and below one another without overlapping.

 

Tile image (n) -  A UI element that enables a user to repeat an image so that it fills the page.

 

tile server (n) -  A map image caching engine that caches and serves pregenerated, fixed- size map image tiles.

 

tile vertically (v) -  To rearrange and resize open files or windows into vertical tiles that display next to one another without overlapping.

 

tiled resourcing (n) -  A graphics feature that allows large logical resources to occupy only a small amount of physical memory, which can be dynamically remapped as the relevant application needs it.

 

till (n) -  The removable tray in a cash register drawer.

 

time (n) -  The time the preventive maintenance routine was completed.

 

time (n) -  A SQL Server system data type that stores a time value from 0:00 through 23:59:59.999999.

 

Time & expenses (PN) -  The Business subcategory containing apps to help businesses keep track of how much time and money are spent on various projects or accounts. time allowance (n) -  The number of hours or minutes per day that a child is allowed to use the computer.

 

time and material project (n) -  An external project that is invoiced as work progresses based on the consumption of hours, expenses, items, fees, and on-account transactions. time and materials (n) -  A type of contract in which the final price paid is based on the amount of time it took to complete the project and the cost of the materials used. time and materials project (n) -  A project where the vendor invoices the customer based on work completed on the job. There is a direct relationship between the invoice lines and the usage already performed on the job.

 

Time Attack Mode (n) -  A menu item on the Purble Place menu that allows the user to select a timed mode for their game.

 

Time Broker (n) -  A feature that provides time events that can be used to initiate background work in suspended apps.

 

time code (n) -  A digital signal applied to a stream. The signal assigns a number to every frame of video, representing hours, minutes, seconds, and frames.

 

time dimension (n) -  A dimension that breaks time down into levels such as Year, Quarter, Month, and Day.

 

time event (n) -  An event that occurs after a designated period of time or on the occurrence of a given date or time. A time event is indicated by the keyword after, followed by an expression that evaluates to an amount of time.

 

Time Event Broker (n) -  A feature that provides time events that can be used to initiate background work in suspended apps.

 

time fence (n) -  A time interval, specified in days, that defines and limits which data are included in a master scheduling calculation.

 

time formula (n) -  An expression that is created following the Simple Time Period Syntax. It takes the form of a time unit plus or minus a whole number, such as Year-1 or Month-6. It is the formula that is applied when you are using time intelligence on a dashboard.

 

time frame (n) -  A period of time during which something takes place or is planned to take place.

 

time grain (n) -  The aggregation interval of a metric for Virtual Machines metrics. time horizon (n) -  The maximum length of time for which future operations are planned. time intelligence (n) -  Functionality that is used to show dynamic time periods relative to the current date.

 

time intelligence filter (n) -  A dynamic dashboard filter that can be linked to scorecards and reports so that they will update automatically relative to the current time. time interval (n) -  A period of time in which a given event is valid. The valid time interval includes the valid start time, and all moments of time up to, but not including the valid end time.

 

Time Management (n) -  The Duet end-user application that enables users to view, create, and maintain their data for time recording activities in Microsoft Office Outlook. Users can add time-reporting data in Outlook in the form of Calendar items, which are integrated with time-reporting-compliance guidelines defined in SAP systems.

 

Time Off (PN) -  A menu item on the Set Up menu that opens the Time Off dialog, which defines how much of the user's schedule is affected by a schedule change. time out (v) -  To reach the end of a pre-determined period of inactivity or absence of expected event or action, after which a device, program, or process is typically deactivated or interrupted.

 

time picker control (n) -  A control that developers use to allow a user to select a time. time project (n) -  An internal project for which only hour transactions are registered. time range (n) -  A period of time during which a setting or other functionality is in effect. time reminder (n) -  A reminder set by the user to go off at a particular time.

 

Time Sensitive Alert (TSA) (oth) -  An alert that fires based on custom criteria after Tickets have been idle for a specified period of time.

 

time server (n) -  A computer that periodically synchronizes the time on all computers within a network. This ensures that the time used by network services and local functions remains accurate.

 

time slip (n) -  An area in the product that keeps track of how much time a project takes and allows you to analyze all the time that is spent working on a task or a project. time stamp (n) -  A certification specifying that a particular message existed at a specific time and date. In a digital context, trusted third parties generate a trusted time stamp for a particular message by having a time stamping service append a time value to a message and then digitally signing the result.

 

time stamp (n) -  A record of the time that a document was created and modified. time stamp authority (n) -  A service acknowledging that the data existed before a particular time. The service is typically a trusted third party.

 

Time Synchronization Packet (n) -  A packet that instructs the Lower Provisioning Module (LPM) what time it is (in UTC format).

 

Time to Live (n) -  A timer value included in packets sent over TCP/IP-based networks that tells the recipients how long to hold or use the packet or any of its included data before expiring and discarding the packet or data.

 

time travel (v) -  The process of moving between time frames.

 

time value (n) -  The number of minutes, hours, days, etc.

 

time zone (n) -  A geographical area that observes the same local time. The local time has a positive, zero, or negative offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The offset can be different during standard time and daylight saving time.

 

time zone ID (n) -  A string that represents a time zone on a computer.

 

Time-Based Assistant (PN) -  A component in Exchange 2013 that performs background tasks, such as mailbox database maintenance, mailbox processing, inference training, calendar repair, offline address book generation, and more.

 

Time-Based Assistant (PN) -  A component in Exchange 2013 that performs background tasks, such as mailbox database maintenance, mailbox processing, inference training, calendar repair, offline address book generation, and more.

 

Time-Based In-Place Hold (n) -  A feature that provides the ability to keep SharePoint items on In-Place Hold for a specific time period.

 

timeline (n) -  A view on a calendar that displays items such as meetings and events from left to right on a time scale and that can incorporate items from multiple calendars. timeline (n) -  A linear representation of activities shown in chronological order, such as the activities that lead up to a sale.

 

timeline (n) -  A representation of a segment of time during which changes occur on a property at intervals called keyframes. You can specify the length of the time segment, when it should start, how many times it will repeat, and more.

 

timeline (n) -  A high-level linear representation of a project schedule that can be easily formatted, annotated, and copied and pasted from Project into other Office applications. Timeline (PN) -  ?A graphic control that allows users to select time periods for data filtering, using a familiar linear time representation.

 

timeline editor (n) -  The area in the Interaction panel where a user can edit individual timelines.

 

timeline snapping (n) -  Snapping the movement of the playhead during frame-by-frame playback, and snapping keyframes, to specific intervals on the timeline. timeline zoom (n) -  A zoom that displays a smaller or larger range of time on the timeline. Time-only entry point (oth) -  An entry point where only the processing time will be captured, without any runtime variables.

 

timeout (n) -  Settings in Web playlists that specify how long a playlist is available to clients. When the time-out value is reached, clients are disconnected. timeout  -  Event that occurs when one network device expects to hear from another network device within a specified period of time, but does not. The resulting timeout usually results in a retransmission of information or the dissolving of the session between the two devices.

 

time-out (n) -  An event that occurs when a predetermined amount of time has elapsed without some other expected event or activity taking place.

 

time-out error (n) -  A condition where an expected character is not received in time.

 

When this condition occurs, the software assumes that the data has been lost and requests that it be resent.

 

timephased (adj) -  Pertaining to a task, resource, or assignment information that is distributed over time.

 

timer (n) -  An internal routine that causes the system to send a message whenever a specified interval elapses.

 

timer (n) -  A mechanism that measures the duration of events, like calls, Internet time, etc. timer (n) -  A mechanism that measures the remaining time from a preset amount of time and sounds an alarm when this time has elapsed.

 

timer account (n) -  A dedicated, administrator-level user account that performs scheduled administrative tasks.

 

Timer Coalescence API (PN) -  A native API that allows apps that aren't Windows Store apps and that use timers to coalesce timer messages such that when the screen is off, timers continue to fire but the app wakes less often, thus saving battery life. timer control (n) -  A control that can be put on a case form that displays a timer indicating how much time has elapsed, or how much time is left, for a service call. timer job (n) -  A trigger to start to run a specific Windows service for one of the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. It contains a definition of the service to run and specifies how frequently the service should be started.

 

timescale (n) -  The time period indicator at the top of the Gantt views, the Resource Graph view, the Task Usage view, and the Resource Usage view. You can customize it to show up to three tiers that can display various time units: top, middle, and bottom. timesheet (n) -  A record of an employee's work hours for one week.

 

timesheet manager (n) -  The person to whom your timesheet is submitted. If the user and the timesheet manager are the same person, an automatic approval will be performed upon submittal.

 

timestamp (n) -  A data type that is automatically updated every time a row is inserted or updated.

 

timestep mode (n) -  A way to change the unit of time.

 

Time-Zone Independent (PN) -  The behavior property of a Date and Time attribute where field values are displayed with no time zone conversion.

 

TIN (n) -  A 9-digit number used to identify an entity (company or person) for tax reporting purposes in the U.S. There are several different types of tax identification numbers, such as employer identification number (EIN), Social Security number (SSN), individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN), and adopted taxpayer identification number (ATIN).

 

tint (n) -  A color mixed with white. A 10-percent tint is one part of the original color and nine parts white.

 

TINY (n) -  A UNICODE character; mathematical symbol; plus sign.

 

tinyint (n) -  A data type of 1 byte (8 bits) that stores whole numbers in the range of 0 through 255.

 

tip (n) -  A type of note that helps users apply the techniques and procedures described in the text to their specific needs. A tip suggests alternative methods that may not be obvious and helps users understand the benefits and capabilities of the product. A tip is not essential to the basic understanding of the text.

 

tip (n) -  The text displayed in Cortana screen to educate the user about what Cortana can do as well as to help the user learn what he can say to continue with the task.

 

Tip of the Day (n) -  A tip that provides useful information about product features for the user. A new tip is displayed each day.

 

title (n) -  On a DVD, typically, the largest unit of content, such as a movie or TV program, is called a title. There is not a consistent standard across all DVDs and because of this, a DVD can contain one or more titles.

 

Title area (n) -  The area at the top of a Windows Journal note where you can write a title.

 

The title appears as the suggested file name when you save the note.

 

title bar (n) -  The horizontal bar at the top of a window that displays the name of the

 

window. Title bars can contain different buttons, such the Minimize, Maximize, and Close

 

buttons, so that you can control how you want to view the window.

 

title case (n) -  A case distinction in which every word's first chararacter is uppercase and

 

the remaining letters are lower case.

 

title master (n) -  The slide that stores information from the design template pertaining to styles on title slides, including placeholder sizes and positions, background design, and color schemes.

 

Titled Matrix (PN) -  A SmartArt graphic layout used to show the relationships of four quadrants to a whole. The first line of Level 1 text corresponds to the central shape, and the first four lines of Level 2 text appear in the quadrants. Unused text does not appear, but remains available if you switch layouts.

 

TLB (n) -  A table used in a virtual memory system that lists the physical address page number associated with each virtual address page number. A TLB is used in conjunction with a cache whose tags are based on virtual addresses. The virtual address is presented simultaneously to the TLB and to the cache so that cache access and virtual-to-physical address translation can occur simultaneously.

 

TLD (n) -  In the Internet and other networks, the highest subdivision of a domain name in a network address, which identifies the type of entity owning the address (for example, .com for commercial users or .edu for educational institutions) or the geographical location of the address (for example, .fr for France or .sg for Singapore). The domain is the last part of the address (for example, www.acm.org).

 

TLD  -  (Top Level Domain). The part of an internet address between the last . and the end of the address, excluding the path/address of a specific page if present. TLDs include .com, .org, .net, and all the national domains such as .uk for the UK and .fr for France. See also- domain,- registrar,- How web addresses work.

 

TLS (n) -  A protocol that provides communications privacy and security between two applications communicating over a network. TLS encrypts communications and enables clients to authenticate servers and, optionally, servers to authenticate clients. TLS is a more secure version of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

 

TLS authentication (n) -  Authentication by using the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol.

 

TLS encryption (n) -  A generic security protocol similar to Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), used with Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).

 

TLV (n) -  A method of organizing data that involves a Type code (16 bit), a specified length of a Value field (16 bit), and the data in the Value field (variable).

 

TM (n) -  A storage area that shows the association between text segments in a source language and their translations into one or more target languages.

 

To box (n) -  A text box where someone enters the e-mail addresses of the primary recipients of an e-mail message.

 

to complete performance index (n) -  The ratio of the work remaining to be done to funds remaining to be spent, as of the status date [BAC - BCWP]/[BAC - ACWP]. A TCPI value greater than one indicates a need for increased performance; less than one indicates performance can decrease.

 

To Do (n) -  A task on a To Do list in a Works project.

 

To Do List (n) -  A list of To Do items associated with a particular project.

 

To line (n) -  The part of a message header that contains the e-mail addresses of the primary recipients of an e-mail message.

 

toast (n) -  A transient message that contains relevant, time-sensitive information and that provides quick access to the subject of that content in an app. toast notification (n) -  A transient message that contains relevant, time-sensitive information and that provides quick access to the subject of that content in an app. Tobacco (n) -  A content descriptor developed by Microsoft.

 

Tobacco Reference (n) -  A content descriptor developed by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB).

 

TOC (n) -  The listing of contents at the beginning of a document or file.

 

Today (PN) -  The title of the window in which the Windows Live Messenger Today page is displayed.

 

Today page (n) -  A customizable page that launches with Windows Live Messenger and features a summary of news and weather, allows a customer to preview their Windows Live Mail inbox and search the Internet.

 

to-do (adj) -  Pertaining to tasks that need to be done.

 

to-do (n) -  A pending task.

 

To-Do Bar (n) -  An area within the Outlook application window that can be enabled to

 

show an overview of the user's schedule, tasks and frequent contacts.

 

to-do list (n) -  A list of tasks that are not associated with a project schedule.

 

toggle (adj) -  Pertaining to an electronic device with two states or a program option that

 

can be turned on or off using the same action, such as a mouse click.

 

toggle button (n) -  A button control within a graphical user interface that when clicked

 

remains down' (appearing to be pressed) until it is clicked again. It can display either text

 

or a picture

 

toggle flag (PN) -  A menu option to change the flag status of an email.

 

toggle key (n) -  A keyboard key that alternates between turning a particular operation, function, or mode on or off.

 

Toggle Keys (PN) -  A feature that sets your keyboard to beep when one of the locking keys (CAPS LOCK, NUM LOCK, or SCROLL LOCK) is turned on or off. toggle screen (v) -  In Windows Media Player Mobile, an optional setting that enables the user to toggle the device's display on and off. This is useful, for example, when the user is playing music using Windows Media Player on a mobile device and wants to conserve battery life. When the display is toggled off, pressing any key will turn the display back on.

 

token (n) -  Any nonreducible textual element in data that is being parsed. For example, the use in a program of a variable name, a reserved word, or an operator. Storing tokens as short codes shortens program files and speeds execution.

 

token (n) -  For networking, a unique structure or message that circulates continuously among the nodes of a token ring and describes the current state of the network. Before any node can send a message on the network, it must first wait to control the token. token (n) -  The unique, 25-character code on a prepaid card that adds computer use time to your prepaid computer or that pays for your subscription.

 

token  -  Frame that contains control information. Possession of the token allows a network

 

device to transmit data onto the network.

 

token  -  The basic syntactic unit of a computing language.

 

token  -  The basic textual units that are indexed by enterprise search.

 

token decrypting certificate (n) -  A standard X509 certificate that is used to decrypt any

 

incoming token.

 

token signing certificate (n) -  An X509 certificate whose associated public/private key pair is used by federation servers to digitally sign all security tokens that they produce. token subscription (n) -  A subscription that can only be paid with a prepaid card. token-based activation (n) -  A specialized activation option available for approved Microsoft Volume Licensing customers that enables customers to use public key infrastructure (PKI) and digital certificates (or -Cirt.okens,-C? typically stored on smart cards) to activate Windows Vista Enterprise and Windows Server 2008 SP2 locally without contacting either customer-hosted KMS or the Microsoft-hosted activation service using MAK.

 

tokencode (n) -  The code used to activate a token.

 

tokenization (n) -  In text mining or Full-Text Search, the process of identifying meaningful units within strings, either at word boundaries, morphemes, or stems, so that related tokens can be grouped. For example, although San Francisco' is two words token-signing certificate (n) -  An X509 certificate whose associated public/private key pair is used by federation servers to digitally sign all security tokens that they produce. toll (n) -  The toll phone number for the conferencing service. In the Options dialog box, on the Account tab, this is one of the conferencing information settings needed for a user to join a conference.

 

toll-free (n) -  The toll-free phone number for the conferencing service. In the Options dialog box, on the Account tab, this is one of the conferencing information settings needed for a user to join a conference.

 

tombstone (n) -  When an app on Windows Phone is deactivated, a record that is kept by the operating system about which screen the user was on.

 

toning (n) -  The process of applying a certain color overlay to an image. For example, a sepia-toned picture.

 

Toning Hue (n) -  A control that lets a user adjust the color of the tone they wish to apply to their B&W image.

 

Toning Intensity (n) -  A control that lets a user adjust the intensity of the color overlay

 

that is applied to their B&W image, thereby giving it a tone.

 

tool (n) -  A utility or feature that aids in accomplishing a task or set of tasks.

 

tool pane (n) -  A task pane on a Web Part Page used to browse, search for, and import

 

Web Parts from Web Part galleries, and to modify custom and common Web Part

 

properties.

 

tool part (n) -  A control in the tool pane that allows users to set properties, execute commands, invoke wizards, and manipulate Web Parts on a Web Part Page. tool window (oth) -  A child window of the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) used to display information.

 

toolbar (n) -  A row, column, or block of buttons or icons, usually displayed across the top of the screen, that represent tasks or commands within the program. The toolbar buttons provide shortcuts to common tasks frequently accessed from the menus.

 

toolbar (n) -  A horizontal grouping of actions that apply to the container (or containers) with which the toolbar is associated. For example, a container in which mail is viewed might have an action toolbar with options that include Reply, Delete, and Move to. Toolbar  -  An extra set of controls that can be added to many programs or the operating system, to provide extra functionality not present in the standard version. A toolbar often comes free with downloaded software and is intended to tie you to one company's products, especially internet search.

 

toolbar button (n) -  A command button used in a toolbar (or status bar).

 

toolbar control (n) -  A standard Windows control designed with the same characteristics as the toolbar.

 

toolbar edit box button (n) -  The commands for the ribbon appear as a drop down menu that appears when the user clicks the default button.

 

toolbox (n) -  A bundle of software, services, marketing materials, etc., bundled together and meant to be used together.

 

Toolbox (PN) -  A feature that provides a home for the Office Scrapbook, Compatibility Report, Project Palette and Reference Pane and is shown as a floating palette. toolbox (n) -  A set of controls, drawing tools, and manipulation tools that can be used to add and modify visual elements in your document.

 

toolchain (n) -  A collection of programming tools used in a serial manner used for developing applications and operating systems.

 

toolkit (n) -  A bundle of software, services, marketing materials, etc., bundled together and meant to be used together.

 

Tools (PN) -  An app category that offers useful tools to extend the capabilities of Windows.

 

tools + productivity (PN) -  An app category that augments or enhances the standard phone experience.

 

Tools for Maintaining Store apps (n) -  The tools which enable you to service your Store applications.

 

Tools for Maintaining Store apps for Windows 8 (n) -  The tools which enable you to service the Windows 8 version of Store applications.

 

tooltip (n) -  A small pop-up window that provides a brief note or label pertaining to the item or control being pointed to.

 

tooltip (n) -  Text displayed in BizTalk Mapper for those schema nodes that are hidden partially or completely from the current alignment in the grid view.

 

Top albums (PN) -  The collection title for music albums that are in the top N% of sales/plays.

 

top app bar (n) -  An app bar that appears along the top edge of the screen and may include app commands or navigation.

 

Top artists (PN) -  The collection title for musical artists that are in the top N% of sales/plays.

 

Top charts (PN) -  The section of the Store that includes the top apps, games, movies, and TV charts (Free, Paid, New and rising, Grossing, and Best rated).

 

Top free (PN) -  The category of the top items (apps or games) that are free at any point in time.

 

Top Free Apps (PN) -  The category of the top items (apps or games) that are free at any point in time.

 

Top free apps (PN) -  The category of the top items (apps or games) that are free at any point in time.

 

Top Free Games (PN) -  The category of the top items (apps or games) that are free at any point in time.

 

Top free games (PN) -  The category of the top items (apps or games) that are free at any point in time.

 

Top grossing (PN) -  The category of paid items (apps or games) that are in the top of gross sales over their lifetime.

 

Top grossing apps (PN) -  The category of paid items (apps or games) that are in the top of gross sales over their lifetime.

 

Top grossing games (PN) -  The category of paid items (apps or games) that are in the top of gross sales over their lifetime.

 

Top movie rentals (PN) -  The collection title for movies that are in the top N% of rentals. Top music (PN) -  The collection title for music items that are in the top N% of sales/plays. Top paid (PN) -  The category of the top items (apps or games) that are not free at any point in time.

 

Top Paid Apps (PN) -  The category of the top items (apps or games) that are not free at any point in time.

 

Top paid apps (PN) -  The category of the top items (apps or games) that are not free at any point in time.

 

Top Paid Games (PN) -  The category of the top items (apps or games) that are not free at any point in time.

 

Top paid games (PN) -  The category of the top items (apps or games) that are not free at any point in time.

 

top playlists (n) -  The most played music playlists.

 

Top rated (PN) -  The collection title for items that are in the top N% of ratings.

 

top rating (n) -  In most cases, the highest rating that you can assign to a file, e.g. a five-

 

star rating'.'

 

Top rentals (PN) -  The collection title for movies or TV episodes that are in the top N% of rentals.

 

top result (n) -  The search result that is most relevant to a user.

 

top results (n) -  An arrangement of search results ordered by relevance using a special search algorithm.

 

Top selling (PN) -  The collection title for items that are in the top N% of sales. top songs (n) -  The most played songs in Xbox Music Store.

 

Top songs (PN) -  The collection title for music songs that are in the top N% of sales/plays. Top TV (PN) -  The category that includes the most popular TV shows in the Video Store. Top-fold card (n) -  One of the page size options available in Publisher for printing a folded card. This option prints four pages per sheet of paper, with fold on top. topic (n) -  The subject of a dynamic data exchange (DDE) conversation between two applications.

 

topic (n) -  Someone or something that people talk or write about.

 

topic (n) -  An Azure Service Bus messaging entity that provides a one-to-many form of communication in a publish pattern. Messages are published to a topic and are then made available to recipients that have subscribed to that topic.

 

Topic Assistant (n) -  A tool used to categorize content into areas automatically. topic branch (n) -  In the Git context, a diversion from the main line of development to work without messing with that main line.

 

topic category (n) -  A group of related search topics.

 

topic feeds (n) -  Feeds that provide information and notifications based on the persistent chat room that you are following.

 

top-level domain (n) -  In the Internet and other networks, the highest subdivision of a domain name in a network address, which identifies the type of entity owning the address (for example, .com for commercial users or .edu for educational institutions) or the geographical location of the address (for example, .fr for France or .sg for Singapore). The domain is the last part of the address (for example, www.acm.org).

 

top-level folder (n) -  The uppermost directory on a computer, partition or volume. top-level property grid (n) -  A property grid that only displays the properties that appear in the sentence-level view of an action.

 

top-level site (n) -  A Web site at the top of the hierarchy in a site collection, from which you can manage site collection features.

 

top-level Web site (n) -  The default, top-level site provided by a Web server or virtual server. To gain access to the top-level Web site, you supply the URL of the server without specifying a page name or subsite.

 

top-level window (n) -  A window that has no parent, or whose parent is the desktop. Top- level windows are typically used as the primary window in an application. topology (n) -  In Active Directory replication, the set of connections that domain controllers use to replicate information among themselves.

 

topology (n) -  The physical layout of computers, cables, switches, routers, and other components of a network.

 

topology (n) -  The order in which changes are propagated from replica to replica. Topology determines how quickly changes in another replica appear in your replica. Topology Builder (PN) -  An installation component of Lync Server used to display, adjust, and validate a planned topology.

 

Top-rated movies (PN) -  The collection title for movies that are in the top N% of ratings. to-production bin (n) -  The stage bin where picked components are placed before consumption.

 

Top-selling movies (PN) -  The collection title for movies that are in the top N% of sales. Torrent  -  A method of making data available for download over the internet, where the recipient of data is expected to make the data available to others for download from their PC, rather than all users downloading from a central server. Typically much of the data is bootleg software, audio and video. Because the data is distributed from multiple computers all over the place rather than a central point, it is difficult to police.

 

Torrent  -  A method of making data available for download over the internet, where the recipient of data is expected to make the data available to others for download from their PC, rather than all users downloading from a central server.

 

total (n) -  The whole sum, quantity, amount, or aggregate.

 

total cost of ownership (n) -  Specifically, the cost of owning, operating, and maintaining a single PC; more generally, the cost to businesses and organizations of setting up and maintaining complex and far-reaching networked computer systems. Total cost of ownership includes the up-front costs of hardware and software added to later costs of installation, personnel training, technical support, upgrades, and repairs. Industry initiatives designed to lower the total cost of ownership include centralized network management and administration, as well as hardware solutions in the form of network- based computers with or without local storage and expansion capability.

 

total field (n) -  A field that summarizes data from the underlying record source. A total field might use a summary function, such as Sum or Count, or use an expression to calculate summary values.

 

total price variance (n) -  The sum of line price variance amounts for a vendor invoice when compared with related purchase order lines.

 

Total Quality Management diagram (n) -  A flowchart used to compare current and ideal processes, and to understand how the steps in a process work together. total row (n) -  A special row in a list or table that provides a selection of aggregate functions useful for working with numerical data.

 

total slack (n) -  The amount of time that a task can slip before it delays the project. total time (oth) -  The time that is elapsed between the time a function starts execution until the time it terminates execution. This is the sum of this function's internal processing time and all its callees total time.

 

totals query (n) -  A query that displays a summary calculation, such as an average or sum, for values in various fields from a table or tables. A totals query is not a separate kind of query; rather, it extends the flexibility of select queries.

 

totals row (n) -  A special row in a list or table that provides a selection of aggregate functions useful for working with numerical data.

 

touch (n) -  A feature that enables users to provide input through the screen by using a finger or a pen.

 

touch and hold (v) -  To tap a device screen and hold one's finger or stylus in place.

 

Touch Design (n) -  A feature that creates new and improved mobile browser views. Documents are displayed as big touchable tiles on the screen. Users can view their own documents, shared documents, or ones they follow. They can open documents or share the URL of a document with other users. Additionally, users can navigate to Mail, Calendar, People, and Sites to view sites that they follow and those promoted by their site administrator.

 

touch DOM event (n) -  A touch event for the Web and Windows Web applications. Web developers use touch DOM events to enable touch.

 

touch flick (n) -  A gesture you can make with a flick of your finger to quickly navigate and perform shortcuts.

 

Touch Improvements (n) -  A utility that allows the user to modify aspects of the UI to facilitate use of a touch-screen Tablet PC. All settings controlled by the utility are either changed as a group to improve the touch-screen Tablet PC experience or they are returned to their default states.

 

Touch Injection API (PN) -  A native API for touch that allows a desktop app to send touch input to the screen (it already exists for mouse and keyboard). It simulates touch by sending messages that look like touch messages. It can be used to automate testing of a Windows Store app (larger company), and is used to support a class of devices.

 

Touch Interaction Engine (PN) -  The engine that detects and decides what a gesture (tap, pinch, zoom) means.

 

touch keyboard (n) -  A soft keyboard that is displayed with a different set of settings by default (larger buttons, bigger size, etc.) when you launch the Tablet PC Input Panel with touch. This is to facilitate touch input.

 

touch keyboard (n) -  A contiguous on-screen keyboard.

 

touch pad (n) -  A variety of graphics tablet that uses pressure sensors, rather than the electromagnetics used in more expensive high-resolution tablets, to track the position of a device on its surface.

 

touch pointer (n) -  A tool for accessing right-click menus and targeting small pieces of the interface using touch input.

 

touch prediction (n) -  A Windows 8 feature that compensates for hardware that doesn't perform to expectations. It anticipates a user's intent for panning and predicts the path. touch screen (n) -  A touch-sensitive screen on your device that can recognize the location of a touch (of a fingertip or stylus, for example) on its surface and translate that touch into a desired action (such as opening an item or moving the cursor).

 

touch selection (n) -  Selecting images and/or text by tapping.

 

touch selection handle (n) -  A handle that enables touch selection scenarios that are not possible or are difficult to accomplish with standard touch gestures alone. touch targeting (n) -  Using the touch of your finger to guess your intended target instead of the actual target.

 

touch training (n) -  A feature that helps improve the recognition of a user's touch flicks by a process in which the user's touch flicks are analyzed.

 

touchpad (n) -  A variety of graphics tablet that uses pressure sensors, rather than the electromagnetics used in more expensive high-resolution tablets, to track the position of a device on its surface.

 

Touchpad  -  A pressure-sensitive pad which replaces the- mouse- on

 

mostlaptop- and- netbook- computers.

 

touchscreen (n) -  A touch-sensitive screen on your device that can recognize the location of a touch (of a fingertip or stylus, for example) on its surface and translate that touch into a desired action (such as opening an item or moving the cursor).

 

Touchscreen  -  A computer screen which is touch-sensitive, used to

 

controltablet- computers and most- smartphones. They are also widely used for specialised applications such as supermarket self checkouts and public information devices. touchtone (n) -  A form of dialing that uses multiple-tone signaling. The user hears a series of tones (beeps) when dialing.

 

touchtone command (n) -  A command transmitted by touching buttons on a digital keyboard which transmits tones for each key press.

 

touchtone dialing (n) -  A form of dialing that uses multiple-tone signaling. The user hears a series of tones (beeps) when dialing.

 

touchtone interface (n) -  An interface that is used to navigate the menus of a Unified Messaging (UM) system using DTMF or touchtone inputs.

 

TP (oth) -  A processing method in which transactions are executed immediately after they are received by the system.

 

TPD (PN) -  A policy that allows for one AD RMS cluster to issue use licenses against publishing licenses that were issued by a different AD RMS cluster.

 

TPH (n) -  A method of modeling a type hierarchy in a database that includes the attributes of all the types in the hierarchy in one table.

 

TPL (n) -  A set of public types and APIs in the System.Threading and

 

System.Threading.Tasks namespaces in the .NET Framework version 4 and above. The purpose of the TPL is to make developers more productive by simplifying the process of adding parallelism and concurrency to applications.

 

TPM (n) -  Microchip designed to provide certain basic security-related functions to the software that utilizes TPM.

 

TPM (n) -  Security hardware that provides a hardware-based root of trust and can be leveraged to provide a variety of cryptographic services, such as early-boot component checking.

 

TPM Initialization Wizard (n) -  A wizard that initializes a trusted platform module (TPM) hardware.

 

TPT (n) -  A method of modeling a type hierarchy in a database that uses multiple tables with one-to-one relationships to model the various types.

 

TQM diagram (n) -  A flowchart used to compare current and ideal processes, and to understand how the steps in a process work together.

 

trace (v) -  To execute a program in such a way that the sequence of statements being executed can be observed.

 

trace (v) -  To track an inventory dimension to show its related receipts and issues.

 

trace (n) -  A collection of events and data returned by the Database Engine.

 

trace consumer (n) -  An application that formats and displays trace messages.

 

trace controller (n) -  An application that enables tracing and connects the trace provider

 

with the trace consumer.

 

trace definition (n) -  A statement that defines a trace.

 

trace dependency (n) -  A kind of dependency that indicates a historical relationship between two elements that represent the same concept at different semantic levels or from different points of view.

 

trace file (n) -  A file containing records of activities of a specified object, such as an application, operating system, or network. A trace file can include calls made to APIs, the activities of APIs, the activities of communication links and internal flows, and other information.

 

trace log (n) -  The file that contains the information gathered during trace logging. trace logging (n) -  A means of capturing highly detailed information about the PerformancePoint Server system when problems occur.

 

trace message (n) -  A message that includes the current status of various COM+ activities, such as startup and shutdown.

 

tracepoint (n) -  A breakpoint with a custom action associated with it. When a tracepoint is hit, the debugger performs the specified tracepoint action instead of, or in addition to, breaking program execution.

 

tracer arrow (n) -  An arrow that shows the relationship between the active cell and its related cells. Tracer arrows are blue when pointing from a cell that provides data to another cell, and red if a cell contains an error value, such as #DIV/0!. tracer token (n) -  A performance monitoring tool available for transactional replication. A token (a small amount of data) is sent through the replication system to measure the amount of time it takes for transactions to reach the Distributor and Subscribers. traceroute  -  Program available on many systems that traces the path a packet takes to a desti-

 

traceroute  -  nation. It is used mostly to debug routing problems between hosts. A traceroute protocol is also defined in RFC 1393.

 

tracing (n) -  The process of capturing and displaying debugging information about a Web page as the page is running. Tracing information includes HTTP headers and control state. You can display trace output in the page or in a separate trace viewer.

 

tracing ID (n) -  A unique ID that identifies the session instance in which the specified error occurred. IDs are stored in trace logs.

 

tracing image (n) -  A prototype image used as a mockup for a Web page design.

 

Tracing Service (PN) -  A service responsible for writing diagnostic logging and usage logging information from SharePoint applications to log files on disk.

 

track (n) -  An individual song or other discrete piece of audio content.

 

track (v) -  To follow the flow of information; to monitor progress.

 

track (n) -  In a Smooth Streaming presentation, a contiguous set of chunks encoded at a specific bit rate and stored in a media container format (also called a wire format'). For Smooth Streams encoded for Silverlight-based clients

 

trackback (n) -  A notification sent from one blog to another. It is a way for bloggers to let each other know when one of them has made a reference to another's blog entry. tracking (n) -  The process of viewing and updating the actual progress of tasks so that you can see progress across time, evaluate slippage of tasks, compare scheduled or baseline data to actual data, and check the completion percentage of tasks and your project. tracking code (n) -  A piece of HTML code in a Web site that places a cookie on visitors' systems to keep track of their actions and movements within a site.

 

Tracking Columns (n) -  An option under the Columns heading on the Report window. When expanded, this option enables the user to select columns that contain tracking information such as Created By' and ‘Modified On'.'

 

tracking dimension (n) -  The batch number and serial number attributes that are used to track an item.

 

tracking participant (n) -  A software component that consumes tracking records emitted by the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) runtime. Tracking participant implementations can send records to a storage location such as a log file or a database. tracking profile (n) -  A set of characteristics that define a business-related process and contains the mapping between a specific orchestration and activity definition. A tracking profile is a file with a .btt extension.

 

tracking profile (n) -  Configuration data that is used to subscribe to specific tracking records that can be emitted by the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) runtime. Tracking Protection (PN) -  The feature that blocks third-party web content that could potentially track someone's web activity.

 

tracking record (n) -  Data emitted by the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) runtime when certain milestones are reached within a workflow instance, for example, when an instance or activity is completed.

 

trade discount (n) -  A discount that does not depend on prompt payment.

 

TRADE MARK SIGN (n) -  The symbol or character used to indicate that a word, phrase, symbol, or design is a trademark, but not a registered trademark. trademark symbol (n) -  The symbol or character used to indicate that a word, phrase, symbol, or design is a trademark, but not a registered trademark. trade-off matrix (n) -  A tool for managing project trade-offs by portraying them in a matrix that reflects the three project variables (presented on the y axis) in the context of three decisions (presented on the x axis). The project variables are resources (people and money), schedule (time), and features (the product and its quality). These variables are sometimes presented as the trade-off triangle. The three decisions are whether to optimize, constrain, or accept a given variable. A change to one of the project variables requires that the team make a correction on one of the three sides to maintain project balance, including potentially the same side on which the change first occurred. For example, a decision to add a feature to a product may require that other features be removed if sufficient time and resources are unavailable to support their development.

 

Tradeshow Planning, Execution and Wrap-Up (n) -  A template used to help in planning for tradeshows.

 

trading partner (n) -  An external or internal organization with which your oganization exchanges electronic data. For example, a trading partner could be a supplier, a customer, or an internal department.

 

trading partner agreement (n) -  A definitive and binding agreement between two trading partners for transacting messages over a specific business-to-business protocol. A trading partner agreement brings together common bi-directional message processing properties from specific business profiles of both partners. It is a comprehensive collection of all aspects governing the business transaction between the two trading partners. The trading partner agreement is typically derived from the profiles of each partner, with the ability to customize and override the required settings.

 

trading party (n) -  An entity that is at the root level of a trading partner management (TPM) solution. Each participating organization in an ongoing business relationship, and any single business entity that is running BizTalk Server and sending or receiving messages to or from any other party, is a trading party.

 

trading relationship (n) -  A relationship that is formed when a buying party and a selling party enter into an agreement.

 

traffic (n) -  The number of visits to a website, or the amount of user activity on a website or on a network.

 

traffic  -  The messages or calls that flow through the circuits or equipment on a communications network. The four Switched Access capacity traffic types are originating, terminating, voice data and SwitchNet 56.

 

Traffic Manager (PN) -  The networking service in Microsoft Azure that load-balances incoming traffic across multiple Microsoft Azure cloud services. trail (n) -  A line drawn by a user with his free hand.

 

trail byte (n) -  The byte value that is the second half of a double-byte character.

 

Trailer (n) -  One of the music genres that appears under Genre classification in Windows Media Player library. Based on ID3 standard tagging format for MP3 audio files. ID3v1 genre ID # 70.

 

trailer (n) -  A video that plays after the main video ends.

 

trailer clip (n) -  A video that plays after the main video ends.

 

trailer video (n) -  A video that plays after the main video ends.

 

trailers (n) -  An advertisement or a commercial for a feature film that will be exhibited in the future at a cinema.

 

trailing (adj) -  Pertaining to an item that follows or comes after another.

 

trailing clip (n) -  A video that plays after the main video ends.

 

trailing video (n) -  A video that plays after the main video ends.

 

train (v) -  To populate a model with data to derive patterns that can be used in prediction or knowledge discovery.

 

training (n) -  The process of teaching the speech recognition engine to recognize your voice and manner of speaking. The speech engine looks for patterns in the way you speak, enabling it to provide better accuracy when you dictate text. You train the engine by reading text in the training wizard, and continue to train the engine as you dictate text while working.

 

training data set (n) -  A set of known and predictable data used to train a data mining model.

 

training experiment (n) -  The components to create and test a predictive analytics model based on historical data.

 

trait (n) -  An attribute that describes an entity.

 

Trance (n) -  One of the music genres that appears under Genre classification in Windows Media Player library. Based on ID3 standard tagging format for MP3 audio files. ID3v1 genre ID # 31.

 

transacted pipeline (n) -  A pipeline that supports COM+ transactions. MtsTxPipeline and PooledTxPipeline are the only objects that support transactions. If any component in a transacted pipeline fails, the work of the preceding components in the pipeline is undone and the object ends the transaction.

 

transaction (n) -  The pairing of two or more actions that are performed together as a single action; the action succeeds or fails as a whole.

 

transaction (n) -  An event or condition that is recorded in asset, liability, expense, revenue, and/or equity accounts. Sales to customers or purchases from vendors are examples of transactions.

 

transaction (n) -  A social economic exchange action.

 

transaction (n) -  A physical economic exchange action.

 

transaction (n) -  A data manipulation action processed by a database.

 

transaction (n) -  The posting or registration of a change on a document or a journal line. transaction currency unit (n) -  A currency unit that a party accepts for payment. transaction data (n) -  Entities that document economic, resource flow, and accounting events and record their financial, legal, and operational consequences. transaction history (n) -  A record of data transfers between the user's computer and the server.

 

transaction isolation level (n) -  The property of a transaction that controls the degree to which data is isolated for use by one process, and is guarded against interference from other processes.

 

transaction log (n) -  A file that records transactional changes occurring in a database, providing a basis for updating a master file and establishing an audit trail. transaction log file (n) -  A file that contains a record of the changes that were made to an Exchange database. All changes to the database are recorded in the transaction log files before they are written into the database files. If a database shuts down unexpectedly, unfinished transactions can be restored by replaying the transaction log files into the database.

 

transaction manager (n) -  A service that coordinates transactions.

 

transaction number (n) -  The 32-character number assigned to each new computer use time transfer between the prepaid card and the server.

 

transaction processing (n) -  A processing method in which transactions are executed immediately after they are received by the system.

 

transaction retention period (n) -  In transactional replication, the amount of time transactions are stored in the distribution database.

 

transaction rollback (n) -  Rollback of a user-specified transaction to the last savepoint inside a transaction or to the beginning of a transaction.

 

transaction service (n) -  A program that enables real-time, synchronous communication

 

between the POS, the store database, and the head office database.

 

transaction text (n) -  A description for a journal line. Transaction text stays with the journal line until an event causes new transaction text to be added, such as when the transaction is settled.

 

transaction threshold (n) -  The maximum limit of a transaction value, up to which a tax on the transaction value is not calculated.

 

transaction value (n) -  The value assigned to a financial exchange, such as the cost of an expense or an amount of income.

 

transactional (adj) -  Pertaining to a type of license or seat that is purchased at a slight discount as part of a volume license agreement but is limited to a period of time that is less than the term of that agreement, usually to support short term temporary, contingency, or seasonal workers.

 

transactional dead-letter queue (n) -  For Message Queuing, a queue that stores transactional messages that cannot reach their destination queue. Transactional dead-letter queues store failed messages on the computer on which the message expired. Messages in these queues are written to disk and are therefore recoverable.

 

transactional message (n) -  For Message Queuing, a message that can be sent and received only from within a transaction. This type of message returns to its prior state when a transaction is terminated abruptly. A transactional message is removed from a queue only when the transaction is committed; otherwise, it remains in the queue and can be subsequently read during another transaction.

 

transactional messaging (n) -  A stream of messages sent in order exactly once, achieved by synchronizing and coordinating multiple BizTalk message queuing adapter instances in a group.

 

transactional replication (n) -  A type of replication that typically starts with a snapshot of the publication database objects and data.

 

Transact-SQL (PN) -  The language containing the commands used to administer instances of SQL Server, create and manage all objects in an instance of SQL Server, and to insert, retrieve, modify and delete all data in SQL Server tables. Transact-SQL is an extension of the language defined in the SQL standards published by the International Standards Organization (ISO) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Transact-SQL Compiler Service (PN) -  A component based on the Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine that can validate the syntax and semantics of DDL statements with the same fidelity as a Microsoft SQL Server Database engine.

 

transcode (v) -  To convert a media file from one format to another, generally by decoding and then re-encoding the file.

 

transcoding (n) -  The process of converting a media file or format from one digital format to another.

 

Transcriber (PN) -  A full-screen handwriting recognition method that allows writing words and sentences by hand'. The text can also be converted to typed text.' transcript (n) -  The collection of entries from a chat session.

 

transfer (v) -  To move data from one location to another.

 

transfer (n) -  The movement of information from one location to another, either within a computer (as from a disk drive to memory), between a computer and an external device (as between a file server and a computer on a network), or between separate computers. transfer (n) -  The act of sending the current phone call to a third person.

 

Transfer (PN) -  A menu item that transfers the current phone call without the user remaining on the line to announce the call.

 

transfer appearance (n) -  The visual feedback displayed during a transfer operation. transfer batch (n) -  The quantity of one or more items that is transferred or that can be transferred.

 

transfer call (oth) -  To pass an incoming call to another Skype contact or any phone. transfer log (n) -  A log, located on the DPM server, that stores pending changes to a replica.

 

Transfer Now (oth) -  The button on Phone Controls that transfers the current phone call. transfer order (n) -  A request to move items between warehouses. A transfer order keeps track of the items shipped out of one warehouse and received into another warehouse. transfer order line (n) -  The part of a transfer order that specifies detailed information about a request to transfer a specific item to a different warehouse.

 

transfer price (n) -  The price charged for goods or services provided by one unit of a company to another unit in the same company.

 

transfer rate (n) -  The rate at which a circuit or a communications channel transfers information from source to destination, as over a network or to and from a disk drive. Transfer rate is measured in units of information per unit of time — for example, bits per second or characters per second — and can be measured either as a raw rate, which is the maximum transfer speed, or as an average rate, which includes gaps between blocks of data as part of the transmission time.

 

Transfer Settings area (n) -  The area on the Organizations page that can replicate and apply the settings and rules to other domains, after one domain is created, for faster and easier setup of domains.

 

transform (n) -  A template of the differences between two installer databases that can be applied to produce similar changes in other databases.

 

transform (v) -  To change the appearance or format of data without altering its content; that is, to encode information according to predefined rules.

 

transform (v) -  In mathematics and computer graphics, to alter the position, size, or nature of an object by moving it to another location (translation), making it larger or smaller (scaling), turning it (rotation), changing its description from one type of coordinate system to another, and so on.

 

transform file (n) -  A template of the differences between two installer databases that can be applied to produce similar changes in other databases.

 

Transform Parse (PN) -  A system job that parses a transformation used in data migration. transformation (n) -  The process of converting an XML document that conforms to one schema into an XML document that conforms to another schema, often changing the document structure in the process.

 

transformation (n) -  The process of transforming objects in a 2-D plane. Transformations include rotation, scale, skew or shear, flip, and translation.

 

transformation (n) -  The SSIS data flow component that modifies, summarizes, and cleans data.

 

transformation input (n) -  Data that is contained in a column, which is used duing a join or lookup process, to modify or aggregate data in the table to which it is joined.

 

transformation output (n) -  Data that is returned as a result of a transformation procedure.

 

transit (n) -  Local public transportation; the vehicles used for such transport.

 

transit engine (n) -  An engine that calculates the number of days that it will take for shipped freight to get from its origin point to its destination point. transit warehouse (n) -  An intermediate location between a from' warehouse and a ‘to' warehouse for warehouse transfers. Items in a transit warehouse are in the process of being transferred to a different warehouse (transfer order) and therefore cannot be picked for other orders during transportation.'

 

transition (n) -  An animation effect that specifies how the display changes as a user moves from one item (such as a slide or Web page) to another. transition (n) -  An allowed path from one state to another.

 

transition (n) -  In a statechart or activity diagram, a relationship between two states or action states or between a state and itself.

 

transition (n) -  A move from one license, product, or license model to another. Some examples of transitions are: a step-up to a higher edition; a move from on-premises to the cloud, or cloud to on-premises; or a move to or from a license model that is a hybrid of an online service and an on-premises product.

 

transition effect (n) -  An animation effect that specifies how the display changes as a user moves from one item (such as a slide or Web page) to another.

 

transition event (n) -  A change in the location of processor event execution between ring 3 (user mode) and ring 0 (kernel mode). Transition events represent time spent outside the direct execution of the application code. Transition events can be time spent in threads that are not part of the profiled item, or time spent executing calls from the profiled item to the operating system.

 

transition point (n) -  The start or endpoint of a transition segment.

 

transition style (n) -  An abstract grouping of similar transition effects.

 

transition to history (n) -  An incoming transition segment that ends on an outer state context and does not have a continuing transition segment within the context. transitive trust (n) -  The standard type of trust relationship between Windows domains in a domain tree or forest. When a domain joins an existing forest or domain tree, a transitive trust is automatically established. Transitive trusts are always two-way relationships. This series of trusts, between parent and child domains in a domain tree and between root domains of domain trees in a forest, allows all domains in a forest to trust each other for the purposes of authentication. For example, if domain A trusts domain B and domain B trusts domain C, then domain A trusts domain C.

 

translate (v) -  To move an object in the 2D x-y coordinate system.

 

translation (n) -  The transfer of concepts from a source language text into a target language.

 

translation (n) -  The process of moving an object in the 2D x-y coordinate system. translation lookaside buffer (n) -  A table used in a virtual memory system that lists the physical address page number associated with each virtual address page number. A TLB is used in conjunction with a cache whose tags are based on virtual addresses. The virtual address is presented simultaneously to the TLB and to the cache so that cache access and virtual-to-physical address translation can occur simultaneously.

 

translation matrix (n) -  A matrix that transforms the current graphics path to the desired flattened path.

 

translation memory (n) -  A storage area that shows the association between text segments in a source language and their translations into one or more target languages. Translator (PN) -  An app that allows you to use text entry, your voice, or your camera to translate text into different languages using the Microsoft statistical machine translation system.

 

transliteration (n) -  The process of transcribing letters or words from one alphabet or script to another one (for example, Russian alphabet into Latin alphabet) to facilitate comprehension and pronunciation for non-native speakers.

 

transmission (n) -  The sending of information over a communications line or a circuit. Transmission Control Protocol (n) -  The protocol within TCP/IP that governs the breakup of data messages into packets to be sent via IP, and the reassembly and verification of the complete messages from packets received by IP.

 

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (n) -  A set of networking protocols widely used on the Internet that provides communications across interconnected networks of computers with diverse hardware architectures and various operating systems. TCP/IP includes standards for how computers communicate and conventions for connecting networks and routing traffic.

 

Transmission Level 1 (n) -  A U.S. telephone standard for a transmission facility at digital signal level 1 (DS1) with 1.544 megabits per second in North America and 2.048 megabits per second in Europe. The bit rate is the equivalent bandwidth of approximately twenty- four 56-kilobits-per-second lines. A T1 circuit is capable of serving a minimum of 48 modems at 28.8 kilobits per second or 96 modems at 14.4 kilobits per second. T1 circuits are also used for voice telephone connections. A single T1 line carries 24 telephone connections with 24 telephone numbers. When it is used for voice transmission, a T1 connection must be split into 24 separate circuits.

 

Transmission Level 3 (n) -  A U.S. telephone standard for a transmission facility at digital signal level 3 (DS3). T3 is equivalent in bandwidth to 28 T1s, and the bit rate is 44.736 megabits per second. T3 is sometimes called a 45-meg circuit.

 

transmitting station ID string (n) -  A string that specifies the transmitter subscriber ID sent by the fax machine when sending a fax to a receiving machine. This string is usually a combination of the fax or telephone number and the name of the business. It is often the same as the called subscriber ID.

 

transmogrify (v) -  To move from a lower to a higher edition within an edition family without running through a full upgrade. The transmogrify (aka transmog) process leverages SingleSKU to work.

 

transparency (n) -  A standard that requires that the structure for processing personal information be in a fashion that is open and understandable to the individual whose data is being processed. It is a goal of the Fair Information Practices, which requires a company to inform users what personal information the company collects and how the data is used. transparency (n) -  The quality that defines how much light passes through an object's pixels.

 

transparency (n) -  A security model that helps developers write and deploy secure libraries and applications by isolating code depending on privilege. Level 1 transparency was introduced in the .NET Framework version 2.0. It enables developers to annotate code to declare which types and members can perform security elevations and other trusted actions (security-critical) and which cannot (security-transparent). Level 2 transparency, which was introduced in the .NET Framework 4, refines this model. It adds a third group of code, security-safe-critical code, which are types or members that access secure resources and can be safely used by partially-trusted code in the .NET Framework. transparent (adj) -  In computer use, of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a device, function, or part of a program that works so smoothly and easily that it is invisible to the user. For example, the ability of one application to use files created by another is transparent if the user encounters no difficulty in opening, reading, or using the second program's files or does not even know the use is occurring.

 

transparent (adj) -  In computer graphics, of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the lack of color in a particular region of an image so that the background color of the display shows through.

 

transparent (adj) -  In communications, of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a mode of transmission in which data can include any characters, including device-control characters, without the possibility of misinterpretation by the receiving station. For example, the receiving station will not end a transparent transmission until it receives a character in the data that indicates end of transmission. Thus, there is no danger of the receiving station ending communications prematurely.

 

transparent caching (n) -  A caching technique that optimizes bandwidth consumption on wide area network (WAN) links and provides near-local read response times for mobile users and branch office workers who are accessing network files and folders that are not explicitly made available offline.

 

Transparent Data Encryption (PN) -  A technology for real-time I/O encryption and decryption of SQL Server and Azure SQL Database data and log file with a symmetric key without increasing the size of the encrypted database. The database encryption key (DEK) is stored in the database boot record for availability during recovery and is protected with a certificate. TDE is performed at the page level and does not provide encryption across communication channels.

 

transport (n) -  A mechanism for moving data from one point to another.

 

transport adapter (n) -  A software component that enables message exchange through a specific transport.

 

transport address (n) -  The transport-specific identification for the location to which messages are sent or from which messages are received.

 

transport agreement (n) -  An agreement between the business profiles of two trading partners to use a specific transport protocol (AS2) while exchanging messages. transport calendar (n) -  The days the carrier can pick up and transport goods. transport days (n) -  The number of days required by the carrier to pick up and deliver goods.

 

Transport Driver Interface (PN) -  A common set of routines for network layer components that communicate with the session layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model. These routines allow software components above and below the transport layer to be mixed and matched without reprogramming.

 

transport event (n) -  An occurrence of a particular message transport activity or phase through the SMTP and NNTP services.

 

transport layer (n) -  Layer four of the OSI model. The network layer that handles error recognition and recovery. When necessary, it repackages long messages into small packets for transmission and, at the receiving end, rebuilds packets into the original message. The receiving transport layer also sends receipt acknowledgments.

 

Transport Layer Security (n) -  A protocol that provides communications privacy and security between two applications communicating over a network. TLS encrypts communications and enables clients to authenticate servers and, optionally, servers to authenticate clients. TLS is a more secure version of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

 

Transport Layer Security encryption (n) -  A generic security protocol similar to Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), used with Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). transport protocol (n) -  A protocol that governs the transport channel used for sending messages back and forth between two partners. With respect to trading partner management (TPM), only the AS2 protocol is supported.

 

transport provider (n) -  The driver and support files that provide transport services in a networking environment.

 

transport rule (n) -  A concept that implements a single function point of a transport messaging policy. A transport rule contains conditions as to when to trigger this rule and an ordered set of actions as to what to do if the rule is triggered. Additionally, each transport rule can have exceptions that specify what to exclude from the condition. Exceptions typically identify a subset of criteria identified in the condition.

 

transport time (n) -  The amount of time it takes to transfer items between two warehouses.

 

transportation demand (n) -  A sales order, purchase order, or transfer order that is ready for transportation planning.

 

transportation party (n) -  An individual or organization involved in the transportation process.

 

Transporter Command Shell (PN) -  The command line interface packaged with the Microsoft Transporter Suite For Lotus Domino, a bundle of utilities to help migrate from Domino to Exchange 2007.

 

Transporter Management Console (PN) -  The snap-in for Microsoft Management Console that installs with the Microsoft Transporter Suite.

 

transpose (v) -  To reverse, as the order of the letters h and t in hte, in correcting the spelling of the; or reversing two wires in a circuit.

 

transpose (v) -  In mathematics and spreadsheets, to rotate a matrix (a rectangular array of numbers) about a diagonal axis.

 

trap (v) -  To intercept an action or event before it occurs, usually in order to do something else. Trapping is commonly used by debuggers to allow interruption of program execution at a given spot.

 

trap (n) -  In Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), a message sent by an agent to a management system indicating that an event has occurred on the host running the agent.

 

trap (v) -  To create small overlaps where two differently colored objects abut on a printed page.

 

trap handler (n) -  A body of code in the kernel to which the processor transfers control when an interrupt or exception occurs. The trap handler determines the type of condition that caused the interrupt or exception, and transfers control to an interrupt service routine (ISR) or exception handler.

 

Trapezoid List (PN) -  A SmartArt graphic layout used to show grouped or related information of equal value. Works well with large amounts of text. trapping (n) -  In printing, the process of eliminating white lines between colours by printing small areas of overlapping colour where colours touch.

 

Travel (PN) -  An application for travel planning, including destination photos and panoramas, travel guides, booking tools, currency conversions, and weather forecasts. Travel (PN) -  An app category that facilitates travel planning or navigation. travel + navigation (PN) -  An app category that facilitates travel planning or navigation. TRC (n) -  An algorithm for colour reproduction that maps a set of in-put tones to a set of output tones and is used to control how a device reacts to different light intensities in the visible colour spectrum.

 

tree (n) -  A data structure containing zero or more nodes that are linked together in a hierarchy. If any nodes are present, one node is the root; each node except the root is the child of one and only one other node, and each node has zero or more nodes as children. tree  -  A hierarchical collection of nodes that can have an arbitrary number of references to other nodes.

 

tree  -  A data structure whose elements are linked in a hierarchical fashion.

 

tree diagram (n) -  A type of block diagram with tree shapes to represent hierarchies, such as family trees or tournament plans.

 

tree structure (n) -  Any structure that has the essential organizational properties of a tree. tree view (n) -  A hierarchical representation of the folders, files, disk drives, and other resources connected to a computer or network.

 

tree view control (n) -  A standard Windows control that allows a set of hierarchically- related objects to be displayed as an expandable outline.

 

Trello (PN) -  A free web-based project management application.

 

Trend (PN) -  A general tendency or inclination, typically determined by the examination of a particular attribute over time.

 

trend alert (n) -  Feature to receive notification if a defined value changes significantly. trend analysis chart (n) -  A chart that shows the projected trend for a KPI based on analysis of previous data.

 

trend chart (n) -  A chart that shows the change in data over time.

 

Trending (PN) -  The category of items (apps or games) that are suggested to users due to their recent popularity.

 

trendline (n) -  A graphic representation of trends in data series, such as a line sloping upward to represent increased sales over a period of months.

 

trendline label (n) -  Optional text for a trendline, including either the regression equation or the R-squared value, or both. A trendline label can be formatted and moved; it cannot be sized.

 

triage (n) -  The process of prioritizing projects or elements of a project (such as bug fixes) to ensure that available resources are assigned in the most effective, time-efficient, and cost-efficient manner.

 

triage team (n) -  The team that performs the process of reviewing newly reported or reopened bugs and assign a priority and iteration for working on them. trial (n) -  A version of a product that can be used at no cost for a limited period of time for purposes of evaluation.

 

trial balance (n) -  A report that lists the balances of ledger accounts for a specified time period.

 

trial edition (n) -  A version of a product that can be used (typically at no cost) for a limited period of time for purposes of evaluation.

 

trial version (n) -  A version of a product that can be used (typically at no cost) for a limited period of time for purposes of evaluation.

 

triangle cap (n) -  For paths that contain unconnected ends, the end of the stroke that is extended to taper to a point.

 

triangle strip (n) -  A sequence of triangles in which adjacent triangles share an edge. The first three vertices define the first triangle, and each subsequent vertex defines a new triangle using that point along with two vertices from the previous triangle in the sequence.

 

triangulation (n) -  The conversion method that converts from one denomination currency to another using the euro (or other triangulation currency) as an intermediate conversion step.

 

triangulation currency (n) -  A currency that can be used to convert between two other currencies for which there is no direct exchange rate table available. The triangulation currency must have available exchange rates with both of the currencies to be converted. The first currency can be converted into the common (triangulation) currency, and then the common currency can be converted into the second currency.

 

Tribal (n) -  One of the music genres that appears under Genre classification in Windows Media Player library. Based on ID3 standard tagging format for MP3 audio files. ID3v1 genre ID # 72.

 

trigger (v) -  To activate a function or program, such as the release of a virus payload, in response to a specific event, date, or time.

 

trigger (n) -  In a database, an action that causes a procedure to be carried out

 

automatically when a user attempts to modify data. A trigger can instruct the database system to take a specific action, depending on the particular change attempted. Incorrect, unwanted, or unauthorized changes can thereby be prevented, helping to maintain the integrity of the database.

 

trigger (n) -  The mechanism by which a system or application event triggers either an

 

instant or an animated change in one or more properties.

 

trigger (n) -  An object responsible for firing an action when a condition is met.

 

Trigger (PN) -  A feature in campaign automation where you can schedule a task or operation based on a response to a previous action.

 

trigger distance (n) -  For Latin-based languages only, the distance you need to move the stylus to the right of the right edge of the ink for the ink to be immediately converted to text. The trigger distance is used by the handwriting recognition feature to detect that a user has started writing the next word.

 

trigger event (n) -  The parameters of a Microsoft Dynamics CRM workflow that define the circumstances in which the workflow performs its actions.

 

triggered update (n) -  A type of Routing Information Protocol (RIP) announcement that occurs when network topology changes. With triggered updates, the update announcing network topology changes is sent almost immediately rather than waiting for the next periodic announcement.

 

Triggers panel (n) -  A user interface that provides a way to configure the behavior of an object by configuring property changes to occur or animation timelines to run when an event is raised by the object, for example, the Click event for a button.

 

trim (v) -  To hide parts of a file or clip without deleting them from the original source. Files and clips can be trimmed by adjusting the start or end trim point. trim (v) -  To preempt a storyboard's control of an animation variable with a higher- priority storyboard. If trimming a storyboard on one or more variables causes the storyboard to end prematurely, it is considered truncated.

 

trim (n) -  A Direct3D API call that releases temporary memory buffers allocated by the graphics driver on behalf of an app, reducing the app's memory footprint while it is suspended.

 

trim points (n) -  The points where playback of a file or clip begins and ends. There are two trim points: start trim point and end trim point.

 

Triple Data Encryption Standard (n) -  An encryption algorithm based on the Data Encryption Standard (DES).

 

Triple DES (n) -  An encryption algorithm based on the Data Encryption Standard (DES). Triple Play  -  The combined offering of voice, video, and data over one line. triplet (n) -  A unique identifier made from three otherwise separate pieces of information. For example, a color can be specified by a red, blue, green triplet. Triplets are the second most common type of ID after single, or unique, IDs.

 

Trivial File Transfer Protocol (n) -  A formal set of format, timing, sequencing, and error control rules for transferring files to and from a remote computer system running the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) service.

 

Trivial FTP (n) -  A formal set of format, timing, sequencing, and error control rules for transferring files to and from a remote computer system running the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) service.

 

Trojan  -  A program similar to a- virus- which is disguised as something harmless like a game, but when launched actually sabotages the computer on which it is running.

 

Trojan Horse  -  A computer program is either hidden inside another program or that masquerades as something it is not in order to trick potential users into running it. The term ‘Trojan Horse' comes from a possibly mythical ruse of war used by the Greeks sometime between 1500 and 1200 B.C.

 

Trojan telnet (n) -  A type of trojan malware that installs a telnet server on a user's computer without the user's knowledge.

 

troubleshooter (n) -  An automated tool that helps find and fix specific problems on your computer.

 

troubleshooting (n) -  The process of diagnosing and solving problems or difficulties. troubleshooting performance counter (oth) -  A counter that collects continuously within a 15-minute window. When a .NET exception or performance event occurs, all performance counter data from the 15-minute window leading up to the event are captured and stored.

 

true sound (PN) -  A feature that increases or decreases the volume of the speaker in a group call to match the position of the speaker (i.e right or left).

 

TrueType  -  A technology for outline fonts that is built into all Windows and Macintosh operating systems. Outline fonts are scalable enabling a display device to generate a character at any size based on a geometrical description.

 

TrueType font (n) -  A type of computer font that can be scaled to any size. TrueType fonts are clear and readable in all sizes and can be sent to any printer or other output device that is supported by Windows.

 

truncate (v) -  To cut off the beginning or end of a series of characters or numbers; specifically, to eliminate one or more of the least significant (typically rightmost) digits. In truncation, numbers are simply eliminated, unlike rounding, in which the rightmost digit might be incremented to preserve accuracy.

 

truncate (v) -  To preempt a storyboard's control of an animation variable with a higher- priority storyboard. If trimming a storyboard on one or more variables causes the storyboard to end prematurely, it is considered truncated.

 

trunk  -  A line which runs between two switches or swiching systems which are generally found in Central Offices and/or PBXs.

 

trunk  -  Individual channels or circuits that can be grouped. This is the smallest denominator for a network facility.

 

trust (v) -  To have confidence in the reliability of an entity or service and the information that it provides.

 

trust (n) -  Confidence in the reliability of an entity or service and the information that it provides.

 

trust anchor (n) -  The public key of the public/private key pair that is used to sign a DNS zone.

 

Trust Bar (n) -  A notification bar warning the user about data that is blocked in the loaded file. Trust Bars can be for information only (non-actionable) or actionable.

 

Trust Center (n) -  Part of the Office Center feature that allows users to set various security and privacy options, and to see currently enforced security and privacy rules. Trust Center (n) -  A website that describes the compliance, security, and privacy features of Microsoft Office 365.

 

trust chain (n) -  A sequence of certificates, where each certificate in the sequence is signed by the subsequent certificate. The last certificate in the chain is normally a self­signed certificate.

 

trust level (n) -  A characterization of an external entity based on how it is authenticated and what privileges it has. Trust levels can be associated with entry points, personas, assets, or other protected resources.

 

trust license (n) -  The file used in ClickOnce applications to grant an elevated level of trust to a managed application. Trust licenses must be signed by trust license issuers, which must be installed on a client computer prior to deploying the ClickOnce application. trust list (n) -  A signed list of root certification authority certificates that an administrator considers reputable for designated purposes, such as client authentication or secure e-mail. trust object (n) -  An object representing a trust relationship.

 

trust relationship (n) -  A logical relationship established between domains to allow pass­through authentication, in which a trusting domain honors the logon authentications of a trusted domain.

 

TRUSTe (n) -  An independent, non-profit initiative whose mission is to build the trust and confidence of users on the Internet by promoting the TRUSTe principles of fair information practices. Microsoft is a premier sponsor of TRUSTe and a member of the TRUSTe privacy program.

 

trusted application (n) -  In Silverlight, an out-of-browser application to which a user grants elevated trust upon installation, providing greater access to the local system. Trusted Boot (PN) -  A customized process that identifies and fixes potential problems during PC startup.

 

Trusted Computing Group (PN) -  The organization that sets standards for Trusted Platform Module (TPM) use and interface.

 

trusted connection (n) -  A Windows network connection that can be opened only by users who have been authenticated by the network.

 

Trusted Documents (PN) -  A feature that allows the user to indicate that a document is trusted, and therefore can be opened without security notifications, so long as the filepath and creation time of the document remain unchanged.

 

trusted domain (n) -  A domain that is trusted by other domains.

 

trusted domain (n) -  A domain that is engaged in a trust relationship with another domain, which is also called a federation. This relationship is between two federation servers, and allows a system to provide controlled access to its resources or services to a user that belongs to another security realm without requiring the user to authenticate directly to the system and without the two systems sharing a database of user identities or passwords.

 

trusted forest (n) -  A forest that is trusted to make authentication statements for security principals in that forest. Assuming forest A trusts forest B, all domains belonging to forest A will trust all domains in forest B, subject to policy configuration.

 

trusted location (n) -  A folder or file path on your computer or a location on your intranet from which it is safe to run code. Default trusted locations include the Templates, Addins, and Startup folders, and you can specify your own trusted locations.

 

trusted PC (n) -  A computer that a customer adds to their Windows Live account security information from which they can reset a forgotten password without providing further information.

 

trusted platform module (n) -  Microchip designed to provide certain basic security- related functions to the software that utilizes TPM.

 

Trusted Platform Module (PN) -  Security hardware that provides a hardware-based root of trust and can be leveraged to provide a variety of cryptographic services, such as early- boot component checking.

 

trusted publisher (n) -  The developer of a macro that is trusted by you on your computer. The trusted publisher is identified by the certificate that they used to digitally sign the macro.

 

trusted publisher store (n) -  A list of software publisher certificates used to digitally sign code, such as macros. Because you explicitly trust the software publishers, their code is allowed to run on your computer without needing to prompt for permission.

 

Trusted Publishing Domain (PN) -  A policy that allows for one AD RMS cluster to issue use licenses against publishing licenses that were issued by a different AD RMS cluster. trusted root CA (n) -  A root certification authority that appears in the Trusted Root Certification Authorities console of the Windows operating systems and is trusted by the operating system.

 

Trusted Root Certification Authorities (n) -  Implicitly trusted certification authorities. Includes all of the certificates in the Third-Party Root Certification Authorities store plus root certificates from the user organization and Microsoft.

 

trusted root certification authority (n) -  A root certification authority that appears in the Trusted Root Certification Authorities console of the Windows operating systems and is trusted by the operating system.

 

trusted root key (n) -  An encryption key used in Configuration Manager to help clients identify valid management points.

 

trusted source (n) -  The developer of a macro that is trusted by you on your computer. The trusted publisher is identified by the certificate that they used to digitally sign the macro.

 

trusted zone (n) -  A set of Web sites that are completely trustworthy.

 

trustworthy website (n) -  A website that is not fraudulent or deceptive.

 

TRY (n) -  The official currency of Turkey.

 

Try It (PN) -  The button in Yammer that triggers the OAuth flow.

 

TS (n) -  A program that enables real-time, synchronous communication between the POS, the store database, and the head office database.

 

TS session (n) -  A Terminal Services session.

 

TSF (PN) -  A device-independent, language-neutral, and extensible system that enables natural language services and advanced text input on the desktop and within applications. TSID string (n) -  A string that specifies the transmitter subscriber ID sent by the fax machine when sending a fax to a receiving machine. This string is usually a combination of the fax or telephone number and the name of the business. It is often the same as the called subscriber ID.

 

T-SQL (PN) -  The language containing the commands used to administer instances of SQL Server, create and manage all objects in an instance of SQL Server, and to insert, retrieve, modify and delete all data in SQL Server tables. Transact-SQL is an extension of the language defined in the SQL standards published by the International Standards Organization (ISO) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

 

T-SQL Compiler Service (PN) -  A component based on the Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine that can validate the syntax and semantics of DDL statements with the same fidelity as a Microsoft SQL Server Database engine.

 

TSQL pane (n) -  One of the tabs that hosts the editor control to allow TSQL code editing. TSR  -  (Terminate and Stay Resident)- A program, usually loaded automatically on startup, which remains in memory to provide particular functions such as connection to a network or protection against viruses. In Windows TSRs are usually represented by icons in the- System tray, such as the small loudspeaker which represents the volume control for the soundcard. A few TSRs are essential, but many are installed automatically by a particular application just to improve its own performance, with no thought for anything else you may be doing, and may have a negative impact on everything else. Sometimes launched from the- StartUp folder- in the Windows- Start Menu, but often elsewhere as it is too easy to delete them from there.

 

TTFB (oth) -  Time To First Byte

 

TTL (n) -  A timer value included in packets sent over TCP/IP-based networks that tells the recipients how long to hold or use the packet or any of its included data before expiring and discarding the packet or data.

 

TTLB (oth) -  Time To Last Byte

 

TTS (n) -  Pertaining to technologies for converting textual (ASCII) information into synthetic speech output. Used in voice-processing applications requiring production of broad, unrelated, and unpredictable vocabularies, such as products in a catalog or names and addresses. This technology is appropriate when system design constraints prevent the more efficient use of speech concatenation alone.

 

TTS engine (n) -  The component of Speech Engine Services that processes text input and produces speech output by synthesizing words and phrases.

 

TTY (n) -  A feature that enables those who are deaf or speech impaired to use the telephone with a teletypewriter.

 

TTY (n) -  A device that enables the transmission of typed messages over phone lines. These devices typically include keyboards for typing messages to send and display and/or printers to receive messages from one device to another.

 

TTY/TDD (n) -  A device that enables the transmission of typed messages over phone lines. These devices typically include keyboards for typing messages to send and display and/or printers to receive messages from one device to another.

 

TUI (n) -  An interface that is used to navigate the menus of a Unified Messaging (UM) system using DTMF or touchtone inputs.

 

tumbling window (n) -  A hopping window whose hop size is equal to the window size. tune up scan (n) -  An online scan that examines a hard disk's level of fragmentation. tune-up (n) -  An adjustment made to improve working order or efficiency. tune-up scan (n) -  An online scan that examines a hard disk's level of fragmentation. tuning adapter (n) -  A two-way device provided by a cable provider that enables some one-way digital CableCARD-based consumer electronic devices such as high-definition DVRs and Media Center PCs to access digital cable channels delivered using switched digital video.

 

tunnel (n) -  A logical connection over which data is encapsulated. Typically, both encapsulation and encryption are performed, and the tunnel is a private, secure link between a remote user or host and a private network.

 

tunnel / tunneling  -  A communication channel created in a computer network by encapsulating a communication protocol's data packets in (on top of) a second protocol that normally would be carried above, or at the same layer as, the first one.

 

TUnnel Broker  -  In computer networking terminology, a tunnel broker is the phrase used to describe a service that provides a network tunnel.

 

tunnel server (n) -  A server or router that terminates tunnels and forwards traffic to the hosts on the target network.

 

tunneling (n) -  In Windows Presentation Foundation, an event routing strategy where the event instance moves down the element tree (starting at the root of the visual tree and ending with the source). The names of events that use this routing strategy are prefixed with the word Preview'. These events have the same signature as their counterparts that use the bubbling event routing strategy.'

 

tuple (n) -  An ordered collection of members that uniquely identifies a cell, based on a combination of attribute members from every attribute hierarchy in the cube.

 

Tuple Mover (n) -  A background task that periodically compresses data stored in delta

 

stores in the traditional row-mode into the more efficient columnar format.

 

turbulence force (n) -  A parameter in the Perlin Noise function which is used to scale the

 

amount of force from the vector field that is applied to the images.

 

turbulence speed (n) -  A parameter in the Perlin Noise function which controls how fast

 

the vector field is changing.

 

turn off (v) -  To make a device, component, or feature nonfunctional. For example, if you disable a device in a hardware configuration, you cannot use the device when your computer uses that hardware configuration. Disabling a device frees the resources that were allocated to the device.

 

turn on (v) -  To activate or turn on.

 

turn-by-turn (adj) -  A way of providing driving or walking directions to the user where the app provides both spoken and visual instructions at the right time for the user to act on those instructions.

 

turnkey communications line (n) -  A private network provider that is hired by a company to facilitate electronic data interchange (EDI) or provide other network services. turnover (n) -  A company's annual sales volume.

 

turnover threshold (n) -  The maximum limit of a cumulative transaction value, up to which a tax on the transaction value is calculated by using concessional rates instead of standard rates.

 

turtle contour (n) -  A contour that is tapered slightly at the beginning and end of the curve, resembling the shape of a turtle shell.

 

tutorial (n) -  A teaching aid designed to help people learn to use a product or procedure.

 

In computer applications, a tutorial might be presented in either a book or a manual or as an interactive disk-based series of lessons provided with the program package.

 

TV (n) -  An electronic system of transmitting transient images of fixed or moving objects together with sound through space by an apparatus that converts light and sound into electrical waves and reconverts them into visible light rays and audible sound.

 

TV (PN) -  AN MSN site that allows the user to access the latest TV reviews, photos, trailers, clips, news, local showtimes, DVD info, synopsis, cast and crew, awards, and TV series info.

 

TV cam (n) -  A camera that can be used with a television set to make video calls.

 

TV genres (PN) -  The genres channel title for TV shows.

 

TV movies (PN) -  The movie genre for movies originally made for TV.

 

TV networks (PN) -  The networks channel title for TV shows.

 

TV tuner card (n) -  A video card that can receive television signals, usually through an antenna or cable connection.

 

TWAIN (n) -  A cross-platform interface for acquiring electronic images that have been captured by scanners, digital cameras, and still-frame video capture boards.

 

TWAIN  -  (Technology Without An Interesting Name, according to legend) A standard ‘language' or- protocol- which computers use to communicate with- scanners. tweak (v) -  To make final small changes to improve hardware or software performance; to fine-tune a nearly complete product.

 

Tweak  -  When you modify a certain piece of hardware for better performance, it is often referred to as ‘tweaking' it.

 

Tweet (PN) -  A text-based post on Twitter. tweet (n) -  A text-based post on Twitter.

 

twirl angle (n) -  The angle that determines the curve from the inner points and the outer points.

 

Twisted Pair  -  Two copper wires twisted to cancel their own radio frequency interference to reduce noise on the circuit.

 

twisted-pair cable (n) -  Two paired wires, with each wire twisted two or more times per inch to help cancel out noise.

 

two-dimensional (adj) -  Existing in reference to two measures, such as height and width —for example, a two-dimensional model drawn with reference to an x-axis and a y-axis, or a two-dimensional array of numbers placed in rows and columns.

 

two-factor authentication (n) -  An authentication method that requires two authentication methods, which may include something the user provides, such as certificates; something the user knows, such as user names, passwords, or pass phrases; physical attributes, such as a thumbprint; and personal attributes, such as a personal signature.

 

two-finger right-click (n) -  A multi-touch gesture that consists of either a left-down movement, or right-down, right-up or left-down, right-down, left-up, right-up (roll). two-finger tap (n) -  A multi-touch gesture that consists of two fingers tapping at the same time and with a relative short distance between each other.

 

two-level interactive template (n) -  A workflow template which allows the administrator to define two question with up to four answers. The answers determine which queue the call is routed to.

 

two-pass encoding (n) -  An encoding method in which content is analyzed in one pass through the encoder, after which compression is applied in the second pass. two-phase commit (n) -  A protocol that ensures that transactions that apply to more than one server are completed on all servers or none at all. Two-phase commit is coordinated by the transaction manager and supported by resource managers. two-step verification (n) -  An optional Microsoft account sign-in method with which users can only sign in by entering both a password and a security code sent to them by the Microsoft account team.

 

two-way binding (n) -  A type of data binding where changes made to the target automatically update the source, and changes to the source automatically update the target. Data binding is always set on the target object.

 

two-way matching policy (n) -  A matching policy that requires one or more vendor invoice prices to match with one or more purchase order prices.

 

two-way trust (n) -  A trust relationship between two domains in which both domains trust each other. For example, domain A trusts domain B, and domain B trusts domain A. All parent-child trusts are two-way.

 

two-way trust relationship (n) -  A trust relationship between two domains in which both domains trust each other. For example, domain A trusts domain B, and domain B trusts domain A. All parent-child trusts are two-way.

 

type (n) -  In programming, the nature of a variable. For example, integer, real number, text character, or floating point number. Data types in programs are declared by the programmer and determine the range of values a variable can take as well as the operations that can be performed on it.

 

type (v) -  To enter information by means of the keyboard.

 

type (n) -  In printing, the characters that make up printed text, the design of a set of characters (typeface), or, more loosely, the complete set of characters in a given size and style (font).

 

type (n) -  A form or structure that distinguishes a particular class of objects.

 

Type (n) -  On the Business Rules editor form, the column that displays whether the business rule is the primary rule, or a participating one.

 

Type (n) -  In the Azure REST API, the variant of a computing service created by the customer, e.g. cloud service, database, storage account, web app, mobile service.

 

Type 1 fonts (n) -  Scalable fonts designed to work with PostScript devices. type checking (n) -  The process performed by a compiler or interpreter to make sure that when a variable is used, it is treated as having the same data type as it was declared to have.

 

type declaration (n) -  A declaration in a program that specifies the characteristics of a new data type, usually by combining more primitive existing data types. type descriptor (n) -  An object that defines the data type of an input, output or return parameter of a method instance object.

 

type discovery (n) -  The process of identifying the types that should be part of an Entity Framework model.

 

type inference (n) -  A process in which the compiler determines the data type of a local variable that has been declared without an explicit data type declaration. The type is inferred from the initial value provided for the variable.

 

type library (n) -  A file (or component within another file) that contains Automation standard descriptions of exposed objects, properties, and methods. type manager (n) -  A software program that helps you increase or decrease the sets of available fonts.

 

type mismatch (n) -  A general error that happens when assigning a value to a variable of

 

another type or when comparing values of incompatible data types.

 

type promotion (n) -  The promotion of an element's scope to the namespace containing the module.

 

type safety (n) -  The ability for languages and classes to exchange information through commonly agreed upon definitions and usage patterns for types.

 

Type, Length, Value (n) -  A method of organizing data that involves a Type code (16 bit), a specified length of a Value field (16 bit), and the data in the Value field (variable). typed adapter (n) -  An adapter that emits only a single event type.

 

typed event (n) -  An event for which the structure of the event payload provided by the source or consumed by the sink is known, and the input or output adapter is designed around this specific event structure.-

 

typed text (n) -  Text that you enter by using a keyboard or that your Tablet PC converts from handwriting or speech.

 

type-declaration character (n) -  A character appended to a variable name indicating the variable's data type.

 

typeface (n) -  A set of characters that share common characteristics, such as stroke width and the presence or absence of serifs (short lines at the upper and lower edges of characters).

 

Type-Length-Value (n) -  A method of organizing data that involves a Type code (16 bit), a specified length of a Value field (16 bit), and the data in the Value field (variable). type-safe (oth) -  Pertaining to programming languages that can exchange information through commonly agreed upon definitions and usage patterns for types.

 

Typewriter (n) -  A title animation in Windows Movie Maker.

 

typography (n) -  The conversion of unformatted text into camera-ready type, suitable for printing.