Thematic Apperception Test. A projective technique in which persons are shown a set of pictures and asked to make up a story about each one.

Thematic Apperception Test. Administered by a highly trained professional, subject is shown a series of several cards depicting people in various situations. Subject is asked to tell a detailed story about each card. Story is then interpreted by professional. Scoring methods for this test vary greatly, as does the experience of examiner. Is often used to assess personality, depression, world outlook, etc.

A projective measure of personality where a person is shown an ambiguous picture and asked to tell a story about the picture. go to glossary index

a wire mesh or burlap apparatus used to lay the leaves out for withering and fermentation.

shelf made of wire mesh or burlap used to spread the leaves out for withering and fermentation

a wire shelf used for withering green tea leaves

Old rope or tape either left on a route - use with extreme caution! Can also refer to old rope that you take onto a route to form slings for abseil anchors

Weather-beaten and ragged slings, left behind on belays, bolts, chockstones and threads. Often to be treated with extreme caution. On longer routes that you may have to abseil off, take up some tat with you that you can use for an anchor and leave behind, rather than leaving more expensive nuts etc. [Lindsay Davies

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Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Abteilung Theoretische Astrophysik & Computational Physics

thief.

Gunny cloth made from the fiber of the Corchorus olitorius, or jute.

(slang) Small (but still useful) offcuts of cloth or wood.

transactivator of transcription, a gene of HIV that plays a role in viral replication by regulating the transcription of viral DNA into RNA; also the protein produced by that gene.

An HIV regulatory gene that is believed to enhance virus replication.

One of the regulatory genes of HIV.

Technology Assessment Team

Technical Advisory Team

Technical Architecture Team

tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar

rubbish, junk (Phaedra's Love).

A pony.

Trans-Atlantic Telephone

Transatlantic telephone cable.

Travelers Advisory Telephone

turnaround time

Turn Around Time. The total time taken to repair a component at the repair location, including waiting time but excluding transit time.

turn-around-time (how quickly can you get this done)

make lacework by knotting or looping

To Accompany Troops

Theoretical Arrival Time

Assumes equally spaced cells arriving at an anticipated rate. Cells that arrive too early are considered non-conforming.

Text attribute table for an annotation subclass in a coverage. In addition to user-defined attributes, the TAT contains a sequence number and text feature identifier. See also feature attribute table.

That (the Absolute) .

Means That. This refers to the Ultimate Condition of Existence.

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