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Timaru: city ("district") and port, Canterbury local government region, east-central South Island, New Zealand, on Canterbury Bight. Although the settlement's boundaries were delineated as early as 1856, the actual founding did not take place until 1859, when the first ship taking ...
timber framing: wooden structural framework that forms the interior and exterior walls of half-timber work (q.v.).
timberline: upper limit of tree growth in mountainous regions or in high latitudes, as in the Arctic. Its location depends largely on temperature but also on soil, drainage, and other factors. The mountain timberline always would be higher near the Equator ...
timbre: quality of auditory sensations produced by the tone of a sound wave.
Timbuktu: city in the West African nation of Mali, historically important as a trading post on the trans-Saharan caravan route and as a centre of Islamic culture (c. 1400-1600). Located on the southern edge of the Sahara, about 8 miles (13 ...
Timbuktu: region, northern Mali, West Africa, bordering Mauritania on the northwest, Algeria on the northeast, and the regions of Gao on the east, and Mopti and Segou on the south. Timbuktu region was created in 1977 from the western part of ...
Time: major American weekly newsmagazine that is published in New York City. Time was the creation of two young journalists, Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden, who wanted to start a magazine that would inform busy readers in ...
time: a measured or measurable period, a continuum that lacks spatial dimensions. Time is of philosophical interest and is also the subject of mathematical and scientific investigation.
time dilation: in the theory of special relativity, the "slowing down" of a clock as determined by an observer who is in relative motion with respect to that clock. In special relativity, an observer in inertial (i.e., nonaccelerating) motion has a well-defined ...
time perception: experience or awareness of the passage of time.
time reversal: in physics, mathematical operation of replacing the expression for time with its negative in formulas or equations so that they describe an event in which time runs backward or all the motions are reversed. A resultant formula or equation that ...
time signature: in musical notation, sign that indicates the metre of a composition. Most time signatures consist of two vertically aligned numbers, such as , , , and . The top figure reflects the number of beats in each measure, or metrical ...
time trial: ("race against the watch"), in bicycle racing, a form of competition in which individual cyclists or teams are sent out at intervals to cover a specified distance on a road course. The contestant with the fastest time for the distance ...
Time Warner Inc.: the largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world. Time Warner's products encompass magazines, hardcover books, comic books, recorded music, motion pictures, online services, and broadcast and cable television programming and distribution. Its headquarters are in New York City.
time zone: a zone on the terrestrial globe that is approximately 15° longitude wide and extends from pole to pole and within which a uniform clock time is used. Time zones are the functional basis of standard time (q.v.).
time-and-motion study: in the evaluation of industrial performance, analysis of the time spent in going through the different motions of a job or series of jobs. Time-and-motion studies were first instituted in offices and factories in the United States in the early ...
time-lapse cinematography: motion-picture technique by which a naturally slow process, such as the blossoming of a flower or cloud-pattern development, can be seen at a greatly accelerated rate. Normal sound cinematography reproduces movement by recording and projecting it at 24 frames per ...
time-sharing: in data processing, method of operation in which multiple users with different programs interact nearly simultaneously with the central processing unit of a large-scale digital computer. Because the central processor operates substantially faster than does most peripheral equipment (e.g., video ...
Times Literary Supplement: weekly literary journal founded in 1902 as a supplement to The Sunday Times of London, long famous for its coverage of all aspects of literature and widely considered the finest literary review in the English language. TLS sets the tone ...
Times of India, The: English-language morning daily newspaper published in Mumbai (Bombay), Ahmedabad, and Delhi, one of India's most influential papers; its voice has frequently coincided with that of the national government.
Times Square: square in midtown Manhattan, New York City, formed by the intersection of Seventh Avenue, 42nd Street, and Broadway (q.v.). Early known as Longacre Square, it was renamed for the building (1903), formerly occupied by The New York Times, which still ...
Times, The: daily newspaper published in London, one of Britain's oldest and most influential newspapers. It is generally accounted, with The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph, one of Britain's "big three" and has long been recognized as one of the world's greatest ...
Timis River: river, rising in the Cernei Mountains at the western end of the Southern Carpathian Mountains in Romania, and flowing north, west, then south in an arc through Caransebes and Lugoj to enter the Danube River at Pancevo, east of Belgrade ...
Timis-Cerna Gap: mountain pass, southwestern Romania, located in the Transylvanian Alps (Southern Carpathians). The pass links the Tisza River plain and the city of Timisoara (northwest) with the Danubian Plain (southeast). The Banat Mountains, including the Almaj and Semenic ranges, lie west ...
Timisoara: city, capital of Timis judet (county), western Romania. The city lies along the canalized Bega River.
Timmermans, Felix: Flemish writer of regional and idyllic novels and stories.
Timmins: city, Cochrane district, east-central Ontario, Canada, on the Mattagami River, 130 miles (210 km) north of Sudbury. The region was settled after the discovery of gold there in 1905. Mining operations began in 1907, and by the time of the ...
Timms Hill: highest point (1,952 feet [595 metres]) in Wisconsin, U.S. It lies in the north-central part of the state in Price county, a few miles southeast of Prentice, near Ogema, between two sections of Chequamegon National Forest. It was probably named ...
Timna': copper-mining site, in the southern Negev, Israel, north of Elat. The presence of copper in Palestine is mentioned in the Bible, and archaeologists have identified remnants of ancient smelting operations at Timna', complete with crude furnaces and slag heaps, as ...
Timoleon Of Corinth: Greek statesman and general who championed the Greeks of Sicily against the rule of tyrants and against Carthage.
Timon of Athens: tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, probably written sometime in 1605-08 and published in the First Folio of 1623 from an authorial manuscript, probably unfinished. Some parts of the play may be by Thomas Middleton. It belongs to Shakespeare's ...
Timon Of Phlius: Greek skeptic philosopher and man of letters.
Timor: island of the Malay Archipelago, easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands between the Savu and Timor seas. Western Timor, with an area of 6,120 square miles (15,850 square km), is administered as part of Nusa Tenggara Timur provinsi ("province"), Indonesia. ...
Timor Current: surface oceanic current flowing southwest along the coast of Timor in the Malay Archipelago. The Timor Current is fed from the Arafura and Banda seas and transports between 1,000,000 and 1,500,000 cubic metres (35,000,000 and 53,000,000 cubic feet) of water ...
Timor Sea: arm of the Indian Ocean, lying southeast of the island of Timor, Indonesia, and northwest of Australia. Located at latitude 10° S and influenced alternately by the southeast trade winds and the monsoon belt, the area is well known for ...
Timoshenko, Semyon Konstantinovich: Soviet general who helped the Red Army withstand German forces during the early part of World War II.
Timotheus: Greek statesman and general who sought to revive Athenian imperial ambitions by making Athens dominant in the Second Athenian League (established 378-377).
timothy: perennial grass of the family Poaceae, native to Europe and widely cultivated as a hay and pasture grass in North America. The stems grow in large clumps and are 0.5 to 1 m (1.5 to 3 feet) tall, with swollen, ...
Timothy, Saint: disciple of St. Paul the Apostle, whom he accompanied on his missions; traditional martyr and first bishop of Ephesus.
Timothy, The Letter of Paul to: either of two New Testament writings addressed to Timothy, one of Paul's most faithful coworkers. They (and the Letter of Paul to Titus) have been called Pastoral Epistles since the end of the 18th century, because all three deal principally ...
timpani: (Italian: "drums"), orchestral kettledrums. The name has been applied to large kettledrums since at least the 17th century. The permanent orchestral use of timpani dates from the mid-17th century, early examples being in Matthew Locke's Psyche (1673) and Jean-Baptiste Lully's ...
Timpanogos Cave National Monument: limestone cave system in American Fork Canyon, north-central Utah, U.S. The monument is on the northwestern slope of Mount Timpanogos (11,750 feet [3,581 metres]), the second highest peak of the rugged Wasatch Range, north of Provo. Established in 1922, it ...
Timrod, Henry: American poet who was called "the laureate of the Confederacy."
Timucua: extinct North American Indian tribe that inhabited the northeast coast of Florida. Their name has been given to a group of closely related languages. The estimated population of Timucuan-language speakers was 13,000 in 1650, with 8,000 speaking Timucua proper. Their ...
Timur: Turkic conqueror of Islamic faith, chiefly remembered for the barbarity of his conquests from India and Russia to the Mediterranean Sea and for the cultural achievements of his dynasty.
Timur ruby: jewel that is in fact not a ruby but one of the world's largest polished red magnesia spinels (see ruby spinel). The unfaceted, 361-carat stone is set in the imperial state crown of England. It is inscribed with the names ...
Timurid Dynasty: (fl. 15th-16th century AD), Turkic dynasty descended from the conqueror Timur (Tamerlane), renowned for its brilliant revival of artistic and intellectual life in Iran and Central Asia.
tin: a chemical element belonging to the carbon family, Group IVa of the periodic table. It is a soft, silvery-white metal with a bluish tinge, known to the ancients in bronze, an alloy with copper. Tin is widely used for plating ...
Tin Pan Alley: genre of American popular music that arose in the late 19th century from the American song-publishing industry centred in New York City.
tin processing: preparation of the ore for use in various products.
tin-glazed earthenware: earthenware covered with an opaque glaze that, unless colour has been added, is white. It is variously called faience, majolica, and delftware. Essentially it is lead glaze made opaque by the addition of tin oxide; tin glaze was no doubt ...