A table in a relational database is a named structure of rows and typed columns that stores one kind of entity under…
A tactile sensor measures contact, pressure and slip across a surface, giving robot hands and grippers a sense of touch for safe,…
A target audience in marketing is the defined group of people a brand aims to reach with its offer and messages, chosen…
Task Manager is the built-in Windows tool that shows running processes, resource usage and startup apps, and lets administrators end or tune…
A task scheduler in automation starts jobs at defined times, intervals or events, deciding when work runs and handling missed or overlapping…
TCP, the Transmission Control Protocol, is the transport protocol that gives applications a reliable, ordered byte stream across unreliable IP networks.
The TCP handshake is the three-step SYN, SYN-ACK and ACK exchange that opens a reliable TCP connection and agrees on sequence numbers…
The TCP/IP suite is the layered family of protocols, built around IP, TCP and UDP, that moves data between devices across the…
TDD, or test-driven development, is a programming practice in which a failing automated test is written before the code that makes it…
A TDM opt-out is a rightholder's reservation that excludes accessible works from the EU commercial text and data mining exception, including AI…
TDP (thermal design power) is the sustained heat output a cooling system must dissipate for a processor, a design target rather than…
Technical debt is the future cost of rework that a software product accumulates when expedient design or code choices replace more durable…
Telemetry in software quality is the automatic collection of usage, performance and error data from running software to find and fix problems.
Temperature is a sampling parameter in language models that scales token probabilities, controlling how predictable or varied generated text becomes.
A tensor core is a specialized GPU unit that performs small matrix multiply-accumulate operations at low precision, accelerating AI and graphics upscaling.
Terahertz communication is wireless data transmission at roughly 0.1-10 THz, studied for 6G links that need tens to hundreds of gigabits per…
A terminal in Linux is the text interface, today usually a terminal emulator, that passes keyboard input to a shell or program…
Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool that declares cloud resources in HCL files and plans, creates and updates them through provider…
A test case in software testing is a specified set of inputs, preconditions and expected results that checks one behavior of a…
Test coverage in software testing measures how much of a program's code, branches or requirements a test suite actually exercises when it…
TestFlight is Apple's beta testing service for distributing pre-release builds of iOS and other Apple platform apps to internal and external testers.
A text and data mining exception lets anyone with lawful access copy works for automated analysis, the copyright basis for much AI…
Text-to-image is a generative AI task in which a model creates a new image from a written description, most often using a…
Text-to-speech is the speech AI technology that converts written text into natural-sounding spoken audio using neural acoustic models and vocoders.
Text-to-video is a generative AI technique that creates video clips from a written prompt by generating frames that stay consistent over time…
Thermal throttling is the automatic reduction of a chip's clock speed and power when it nears its temperature limit, protecting hardware at…
A third-party cookie is set by a domain other than the visited site, enabling cross-site tracking and therefore usually requiring prior user…
A thread is the smallest unit of execution that an operating system schedules, sharing its process's memory while keeping its own stack…
The Thread protocol is a low-power IPv6 mesh networking standard for smart home devices, built on IEEE 802.15.4 radios and widely used…
A threat actor is any person, group or organization that intentionally or accidentally causes harm to information systems, data or their users.
Threat hunting is the proactive, hypothesis-driven search for attackers already inside a network who have evaded automated security alerts.
A threat model is a structured description of what a system must protect, who might attack it, how, and which controls reduce…
Throughput in server performance is the amount of work a system completes per unit of time, such as requests per second, transactions…
The thumb zone is the area of a phone screen that a user's thumb reaches comfortably during one-handed use, used to place…
Thunderbolt is a high-speed wired connectivity standard over USB-C that carries PCIe data, DisplayPort video, USB and power through a single cable.
The TikTok Creator Rewards Program pays eligible creators for qualified views of original videos longer than one minute, weighted by quality and…
Time complexity describes how the running time of an algorithm grows with the size of its input, usually expressed in Big O…
Time Machine is the built-in macOS backup feature that saves hourly, daily and weekly versions of a Mac's files to an external…
A time-series database is a database model optimized to store and query timestamped measurements, with fast ingestion, compression and time-window aggregation.
A timeline in video editing is the time-based workspace where clips, audio and effects are arranged on tracks to build the final…
Tint is the white balance control that shifts colors along the green-magenta axis, correcting casts that the Kelvin temperature slider cannot fix.
A title tag is the HTML element that names a web page, shown in browser tabs and used by search engines as…
TLC, or triple-level cell, is a NAND flash design that stores three bits per memory cell and is the most common choice…
A TLD, or top-level domain, is the last label of a domain name, such as .com or .de, delegated directly from the…
TLS (Transport Layer Security) is the protocol that encrypts and authenticates connections between clients and servers across the Internet.
A TLS certificate is a signed digital document that binds a domain name to a public key so browsers can verify a…
A token is the basic unit of text a language model reads and writes, usually a word, word piece, character or byte…
A tone curve in image processing is a graph that remaps input brightness values to output values, used to adjust contrast, tonal…
Tone mapping in HDR video compresses mastered brightness and color into the range a particular display can reproduce while preserving intent.
Tool calling lets a language model request external functions with structured arguments, so AI agents can fetch data and take actions beyond…