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Transpacific Race: one of the world's oldest major ocean races for sailing yachts, a 2,225-mile (3,580-kilometre) event run from various California harbours to Honolulu, Hawaii. It was first held in 1906 and ...
transpiration: in botany, a plant's loss of water, mainly through the stomates of leaves. Stomates consist of two guard cells that form a small pore on the surfaces of leaves. The ...
transplant: in medicine, a section of tissue or a complete organ that is removed from its original natural site and transferred to a new position in the same person or in ...
transplant: in horticulture, plant or tree removed from one location and reset in the ground at another. Most small deciduous trees may be moved with no soil attached to their roots. ...
transport: in plant physiology, the movement of water and nutrients across a cell membrane.
Transport and General Workers' Union: largest labour union in Great Britain throughout much of the 20th century. It originated in 1889 with the formation of the Dockers' Union. In 1922 that union led the merger ...
transport phenomenon: in physics, any of the phenomena involving the movement of various entities, such as mass, momentum, or energy, through a medium, fluid or solid, by virtue of nonuniform conditions existing ...
transportation: the movement of goods and persons from place to place and the various means by which such movement is accomplished. The growth of the ability-and need-to transport large quantities of ...
transportation economics: the study of the allocation of transportation resources in order to meet the needs of a society.
transportation, history of: history of the methods used by humans to transport themselves and their goods, beginning with the use of other animals and incuding the development of wheeled vehicles, ships, and machine-powered ...
transposing musical instrument: instrument that produces a higher or lower pitch than indicated in music written for it. Examples include clarinets, the English horn, and saxophones. Musical notation written for transposing instruments shows ...
transsexualism: disturbance of gender identity in which the affected person believes that he or she should belong to the opposite sex. The transsexual male, for example, is born with normal male ...
Transtromer, Tomas: Swedish lyrical poet noted for his resonant and strangely suggestive imagery.
transubstantiation: in Christianity, the change by which the substance (though not the appearance) of the bread and wine in the Eucharist becomes Christ's Real Presence-that is, His body and blood. In ...
transuranium element: any of the chemical elements that lie beyond uranium in the periodic table (see )-i.e., those with atomic numbers greater than 92. Twenty of these elements, up ...
Transvaal: former province of South Africa. It occupied the northeastern part of the country. The Limpopo River marked its border with Botswana and Zimbabwe to the north, while the Vaal River ...
transverse wave: motion in which all points on a wave oscillate along paths at right angles to the direction of the wave's advance. Surface ripples on water, seismic S (secondary) waves, and ...
transvestism: practice of wearing the clothes of the opposite sex (cross-dressing), generally to derive some kind of sexual pleasure. It is often mistakenly associated with homosexuality; in fact, however, transvestites may ...
Transylvania: historic eastern European region. After forming part of Hungary (11th-16th century), it was an autonomous principality within the Ottoman Empire (16th-17th century) and then once again became part of Hungary ...
Transylvanian Alps: mountainous region of south-central Romania. It consists of that section of the Carpathian Mountain arc from the Prahova River valley (east) to the gap in which flow the Timis and ...
Transylvanian rug: any of the large numbers of floor coverings found in the churches of Transylvania (part of Romania), to which they had been donated by pious families. Some of these rugs ...
trap: in theatre, a concealed opening, usually in the stage floor, through which actors, props, and scenery can be brought on and off stage. Traps are used, often with elaborate and ...
trap: in physics, any location within a solid (generally a semiconductor or an insulator) that restricts the movement of electrons and holes-i.e., quasi-positive electrical charges. A trap consists of either a ...
trap-door spider: any member of the spider family Ctenizidae and certain members of the families Antrodiaetidae, Actinopodidae, and Migidae (order Araneida). Trap-door spiders construct burrows in the ground; at the entrance they ...
Trapani: city, capital of Trapani province, northwestern Sicily, Italy. It is situated on a promontory overlooked by the town of Erice (Monte San Giuliano), west of Palermo. The ancient Drepana, it ...
trapezius muscle: large, superficial muscle at the back of the neck and the upper part of the thorax, or chest. The right and left trapezius together form a trapezium, an irregular four-sided ...
Trapp Family: Austrian singers whose story was made into a popular Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical, The Sound of Music (1959), that proved one of the most successful in theatre history. Their ...
Trappist: a branch of the Roman Catholic Cistercians, founded by the converted courtier Armand de Rance (1626-1700), who had governed the Cistercian abbey of La Trappe in France, which he transformed ...
trapshooting: sport in which participants use shotguns for shooting at saucer-shaped clay targets flung into the air from a spring device called a trap. A later variant, skeet shooting, is also ...
Traralgon: city, Victoria, Australia. It lies in the La Trobe River valley, West Gippsland, southeast of Melbourne. First settled in the 1840s, its name is Aboriginal for "crane feeding on frogs." ...
Tras-os-Montes: (Portuguese: "Beyond the Mountain"), historical province of northeastern Portugal, bounded north and east by Spain, south by the gorges of the Douro River, and west by the mountains of Gerez, ...
Trasimeno, Lake: largest lake of the Italian peninsula in Umbria region, central Italy, 10 miles (16 km) west of Perugia. It has an area of 49 square miles (128 square km) and ...
Trask, Kate Nichols: American writer and philanthropist remembered as one of the major forces behind the establishment of the Yaddo community for creative artists.
Traube, Isidor: German physical chemist who founded capillary chemistry and whose research on liquids advanced knowledge of critical temperature, osmosis, colloids, and surface tension.
Traubel, Helen: American opera singer, remembered as one of the finest Wagnerian sopranos of her day, who also enjoyed success in popular-music venues.
Traun: town, Bundesland Oberosterreich (federal province of Upper Austria), north-central Austria. It lies along the Traun River, just south of Linz. First mentioned in 612, it became the seat of the ...
Traun, Otto Ferdinand, Graf von Abensperg und: (count of Abensberg and) Austrian field marshal who was one of the ablest military commanders in the wars of the Polish (1733-38) and Austrian Successions (1740-48).
Trauner, Alexandre: Hungarian-born French motion-picture art director whose studio-built sets-the fairground in Quai des brumes (1938; Port of Shadows), the St. Martin Canal in Hotel du Nord (1938), the metro station in ...
trautonium: electronic musical instrument whose tone is generated by oscillating radio tubes that produce an electronic pulse that is converted into sound by a loudspeaker. A neon light generates weaker frequencies ...
Trauttmansdorff, Maximilian, Graf von: Austrian statesman, confidant of the emperors Ferdinand II and Ferdinand III, chief imperial plenipotentiary during the negotiations of the Peace of Westphalia, and one of the foremost political figures of ...
Travancore: former princely state in southwestern India, now part of Kerala state. Travancore was in the kingdom of Kerala, or Cera, in the early centuries AD and traded with distant parts ...
traveler's tree: (species Ravenala madagascariensis), plant of the family Strelitziaceae, so named because the water it accumulates in its leaf bases has been used in emergencies for drinking. This, the only Ravenala ...
Travelers Insurance: leading American insurance company with a history of mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs, largely in the insurance and financial services industries.
traveling salesman problem: an optimization problem in graph theory in which the nodes (cities) of a graph are connected by directed edges (routes), where the weight of an edge indicates the distance between ...
Traven, B.: novelist noted as a writer of adventure stories and as a chronicler of rural life in Mexico. A recluse, Traven refused personal data to publishers; hence many theories have arisen ...
Travers, P.L.: Australian-born English writer known for her Mary Poppins books, which have been widely translated and were the basis for the motion picture Mary Poppins (1964).
Traverse City: seat (1851) of Grand Traverse county, northwestern Michigan, U.S., on Grand Traverse Bay (Lake Michigan). Settled in 1847 and named for the bay (French Lac Travers: "lake lying crosswise"), it ...
travertine: dense, banded rock composed of calcite (calcium carbonate, CaCO₃). Formed by the evaporation of river and spring waters, it is a variety of limestone that has a light colour and ...
travesty: in literature, the treatment of a noble and dignified subject in an inappropriately trivial manner. Travesty is a crude form of burlesque in which the original subject matter is changed ...
Travis, Merle: American country singer, songwriter, and guitarist who popularized the complex guitar-picking technique now known as the Travis style, or Travis picking, whereby the index finger plays the melody while the ...
trawler: fishing vessel that uses a trawl, a conical net that snares fish by being dragged through the water or along the bottom. Trawlers vary according to the method of towing ...
treason: the crime of betraying a nation or a sovereign by acts considered dangerous to security. In English law, treason includes the levying of war against the government and the giving ...
treasure trove: in law, coin, bullion, gold, or silver articles, found hidden in the earth, for which no owner can be discovered.
treasury bill: short-term U.S. government security with maturity ranging from one month to 26 weeks. Treasury bills are usually sold at auction on a discount basis with a yield equal to the ...
Treasury Relief Art Project: smallest of the federal visual arts projects conceived under the New Deal to help Depression-stricken American artists in the 1930s. It was directed by the painter Olin Dows and designed ...
Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture: most important of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's three visual arts programs conceived during the Great Depression of the 1930s by the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration and designed to ...
treated gem: genuine gem material whose colour has been artificially enhanced or produced to increase the value of the stone; staining, heat treatment, and irradiation are among the treatments used.
Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope: one of the confessional writings of Lutheranism, prepared in 1537 by Philipp Melanchthon, the German Reformer. The Protestant political leaders who were members of the Schmalkaldic League and several Protestant ...
treaty: a binding formal agreement, contract, or other written instrument that establishes obligations between two or more subjects of international law (primarily states and international organizations). The rules concerning treaties between ...
treaty port: any of the ports that Asian countries, especially China and Japan, opened to foreign trade and residence in the mid-19th century because of pressure from powers such as Britain, France, ...
Trebbia River: river, Emilia-Romagna region, northern Italy, rising in the Ligurian Apennines at an altitude of 4,613 ft (1,406 m), northeast of Genoa, and flowing 71 mi (115 km) north-northeast across the ...
Treblinka: major Nazi German concentration camp and extermination camp, located near the village of Treblinka, 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Warsaw on the main Warsaw-Bialystok railway line. There were actually ...
Trebon: town, Jihocesky kraj (region), Czech Republic, on the main road to Vienna. It lies in the basin of the Luznice River, which is floored with heavy impermeable clays upon which ...
Trebonius, Gaius: Roman general and politician who had been one of Caesar's most trusted lieutenants before becoming a member of the conspiracy that resulted in Caesar's death.
Trece Martires: city, southern Luzon, Philippines. Located in a fertile and densely populated plain about halfway between Cavite City on Manila Bay (north) and Taal Lake (south), it is named after the ...
Trediakovsky, Vasily Kirillovich: Russian literary theoretician and poet whose writings contributed to the classical foundations of Russian literature.
tree: woody plant that renews its growth every year (called a perennial). Most plants classified as trees have a single self-supporting trunk containing woody tissues, and in most species the trunk ...
tree ear: any of several edible mushrooms of the genus Auricularia that are popular in Chinese cuisine, especially that of Sichuan (Szechwan) province. Tree ears grow wild on and are cultivated on ...
tree frog: any typically arboreal frog. Whereas several frog families include tree frog species, the hylid, or "true," tree frogs are the most numerous. Usually slender, less than 10 cm (4 inches) ...
tree lungwort: (Lobaria pulmonaria), a lichen that, because of its physical resemblance to the lungs, was once used to treat tuberculosis, pneumonia, and other lung diseases. Its elongated, forked thallus (12 to ...
tree mallow: (Lavatera arborea), biennial, herbaceous plant, of the mallow family (Malvaceae), native to Europe. It grows 1.2-3 metres (4-10 feet) tall and bears downy, lobed leaves 10-25 centimetres (4-10 inches) long. ...
tree marriage: symbolic marital union of a person with a tree that is said to be infused with supernatural life. Tree marriage may also be a form of proxy marriage. In one ...
tree moss: any of the plants of the genus Climacium (order Bryales), which resemble small evergreen trees and are found in damp, shady places throughout the Northern Hemisphere. The most common species ...
tree of heaven: (Ailanthus altissima), rapid-growing tree, in the family Simaroubaceae, native to China but widely naturalized elsewhere. It has been planted as a yard and street tree in urban centres, because of ...
tree shrew: any of 17 Southeast Asian species of small mammals resembling squirrels and "true" shrews. Tree shrews, however, are neither rodents nor insectivores and differ from them to the extent that ...
tree snake: any of a number of arboreal serpents, primarily of the family Colubridae. They prey on birds and on arboreal lizards and frogs. The green tree snakes of northern South America ...