top is the interactive Linux monitoring command that shows a live, sorted view of processes, CPU load, memory use and system load…
Topical authority in content SEO is the perceived depth and reliability of a site on one subject, built by covering that subject…
A touch target is the area of a touchscreen interface that responds to a tap, sized and spaced so fingers can hit…
A touchpad is a pointing device that senses finger position through capacitance and turns movement, taps and gestures into cursor control on…
TPM is a motherboard security chip or firmware module that stores keys, measures boot code and proves platform integrity to the operating…
Traces in observability record the path of one request through a system as a tree of timed spans, showing where time was…
Tracking in typography is the uniform adjustment of spacing between all letters in a word, line or block of text, used to…
A tracking pixel is a tiny, usually invisible image or request embedded in a page or email that reports views and actions…
A tracking shot in cinematography is a shot in which the whole camera travels through space to follow or move with a…
A traction inverter converts an electric vehicle's DC battery power into controlled three-phase AC that drives the motor and recovers energy when…
Training data consent is the permission individuals give for their personal data or content to be used to train machine learning and…
Transcoding is the conversion of video from one codec or encoding setting to another by decoding it and encoding it again, often…
Transcription converts recorded speech into written text, adding speaker labels and timestamps that make podcasts and spoken audio searchable.
A transformer is a neural network architecture that uses self-attention to process sequences in parallel and underlies modern language and vision models.
A transistor is a semiconductor device in which a small voltage or current controls a larger current, acting as the switch and…
Translation in language AI is the automatic conversion of text or speech from one language to another by neural models that preserve…
Transparent data encryption (TDE) encrypts database files on disk automatically, protecting data at rest without requiring changes to applications or queries.
A treatment group is the set of randomly assigned units in an experiment that receives the change being tested, compared against a…
A tree is a hierarchical data structure of nodes linked by parent-child edges, with one root and no cycles, used for search,…
A trigger in automation is the event, schedule or signal that starts a workflow run, defining when automated actions begin and which…
A Trojan is malware disguised as legitimate software that relies on the user to run it and then opens the system to…
True peak in audio mastering is the highest level of the reconstructed analog waveform, including peaks that fall between digital samples.
TTFB, or time to first byte, is a web performance metric measuring the delay from starting navigation until the first byte of…
TTL flash is automatic flash metering that measures light through the lens, usually from a preflash, to set flash power for each…
A TTY in Linux is a terminal device that connects a program's input and output to a user, through the kernel's line…
Twitch is a live streaming platform owned by Amazon where creators broadcast gaming, talk and creative shows and earn from subscriptions, Bits…
Two-phase commit (2PC) is a protocol that makes all participants of a distributed transaction either commit together or abort together.
A TXT record is a DNS record type that stores free-form text strings for a name, widely used for SPF, DKIM, DMARC…
A Type 1 hypervisor is virtualization software that runs directly on server hardware and partitions it into isolated virtual machines.
A Type 2 hypervisor is a hosted hypervisor that runs virtual machines as applications on top of a conventional desktop or server…
A typeface is a family of letterforms sharing one consistent design, the core stylistic choice in typography that fonts deliver in specific…
TypeScript is a programming language that adds static types to JavaScript and compiles to plain JavaScript, catching many errors before the code…