TCM may refer to:
Arts and music
Film
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''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' (franchise), a horror film franchise
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'' is a 1974 American horror film produced and directed by Tobe Hooper from a story and screenplay by Hooper and Kim Henkel. It stars Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow and Gunnar Hansen, w ...
'', the original 1974 film
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''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' (2003 film), the 2003 remake
Games
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The Corporate Machine'', a 2001 personal computer game from Stardock
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Total Club Manager
''FIFA Manager'' is an association football series of sports management games published by Electronic Arts. The games were developed by the German studio Bright Future and EA Sports. The game was called ''Total Club Manager'' until the name changed ...
'', football (soccer) management series of video games from Bright Future (in older releases EA sports)
Music
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The Color Morale
The Color Morale is an American metalcore band from Rockford, Illinois, formed in 2007. The band includes vocalist/keyboardist Garret Rapp, guitarists Devin King and Aaron Saunders, bassist Mike Honson, and drummer Steve Carey. Rapp and Carey are ...
, a post-hardcore band from Rockford, Illinois
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The Crystal Method
The Crystal Method is an American electronic music act formed in Las Vegas, Nevada, by Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland in the early 1990s. They were pioneers of the big beat genre and their music has appeared in numerous TV shows, films, video gam ...
, an electronic music group
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Tianjin Conservatory of Music The Tianjin Conservatory of Music () is a university in Tianjin, China, under the municipal government. It was founded in 1958 as one of nine conservatories of music in China.
Notable alumni
* Shi Guangnan, composer (1940-1990)
* Jie Ma, pipa
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Tokyo College of Music
is a private music school in Toshima, Tokyo, Japan. It was founded as in Kanda, Tokyo, in 1907.
History
The college moved to Toshima in Tokyo in 1924 after the original campus was destroyed by the Great Kantō earthquake.
Some notable gradu ...
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Trinity College of Music
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is a music and dance conservatoire based in London, England. It was formed in 2005 as a merger of two older institutions – Trinity College of Music and Laban Dance Centre. The conservatoire has ...
, a leading music conservatory, based in Greenwich, London, United Kingdom
Automotive
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Transmission control module, an electronic device to manage an automobile's transmission
Companies
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Teledyne Continental Motors
Continental Aerospace Technologies is an aircraft engine manufacturer located at the Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile, Alabama, United States. It was originally spun off from automobile engine manufacturer Continental Motors Company in 1929 and owne ...
, an American engine manufacturing company
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Times Community Media'', an American newspaper company
* Toshiba Consumer Marketing Corporation, a division of
Toshiba
, commonly known as Toshiba and stylized as TOSHIBA, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Its diversified products and services include power, industrial and social infrastructure system ...
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TCM (Macau)
The Sociedade de Transportes Colectivos de Macau (TCM) is one of the bus operators in Macau, China. Transmac being the other.
The company began as a ferry operator in the 1950s, and did not enter bus operations until 1974, when a bridge conne ...
(), a bus company in Macau
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Turner Classic Movies
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie channel, movie-oriented pay television, pay-TV television network, network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasti ...
, a U.S. cable TV and satellite network:
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Turner Classic Movies (UK and Ireland)
TCM Movies (formerly Turner Classic Movies) is a British pay television channel featuring classic movies, mostly from the Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros. film libraries, which include many MGM titles.
History
It was launched in 1999, wh ...
** Turner Classic Movies Germany, renamed TNT Film in 2009, now
WarnerTV Film
WarnerTV Film, formerly Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and TNT Film, is a German pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery International. The channel broadcasts movies both in their original language and dubbed into German.
The channel ...
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Turner Classic Movies (Nordic)
Turner Classic Movies (TCM or sometimes called TCM Nordic) was a television channel broadcasting "classic" films from the 1940s to the 1990s (mostly from the Warner Bros. and pre-May 1986 MGM film libraries) to Denmark, Finland, Flanders, Icela ...
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Turner Classic Movies (Middle East and Africa)
TNT is a pay television channel focused on movies. The network is broadcast in Africa under the TNT name (formerly TCM Africa until 2018), as well as in the Arab world as TCM MENA; the latter features its own schedule and optional Arabic subtit ...
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Turner Classic Movies (Asia)
Turner Classic Movies was an Asian digital classic film channel featuring commercial-free classic movies, mostly from the Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros. film libraries, which include many MGM titles. It was the Asian version of the US ...
Computing and telecommunications
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Thermal Conduction Module
Computer cooling is required to remove the waste heat produced by computer components, to keep components within permissible operating temperature limits. Components that are susceptible to temporary malfunction or permanent failure if overhe ...
, by IBM
* Tightly-coupled memory, memory which resides directly on the processor of a computer - see
multiprocessing
Multiprocessing is the use of two or more central processing units (CPUs) within a single computer system. The term also refers to the ability of a system to support more than one processor or the ability to allocate tasks between them. There ar ...
* Time Compression Multiplex, a
time-division duplex
A duplex communication system is a point-to-point system composed of two or more connected parties or devices that can communicate with one another in both directions. Duplex systems are employed in many communications networks, either to allow ...
scheme
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Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling
The Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling (TCM) is a collection of software tools to present specifications of software systems in the form of diagrams, tables, trees, and the like. TCM offers editors for techniques used in Structured Analysis as well a ...
, a collection of software tools to present specifications of software systems
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Trellis coded modulation
In telecommunication, trellis modulation (also known as trellis coded modulation, or simply TCM) is a modulation scheme that transmits information with high efficiency over band-limited channels such as telephone lines. Gottfried Ungerboeck invent ...
, a signal modulation scheme for telecommunications
Places
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McChord Field
McChord Field is a United States Air Force base in the northwest United States, in Pierce County, Washington. South of Tacoma, McChord Field is the home of the 62d Airlift Wing, Air Mobility Command, the field's primary mission being worldw ...
, Washington state, United States (IATA airport code: TCM)
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The Computer Museum, Boston
The Computer Museum was a Boston, Massachusetts, museum that opened in 1979 and operated in three locations until 1999. It was once referred to as TCM and is sometimes called the Boston Computer Museum. When the museum closed and its space became p ...
* The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, an art museum now called the
Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House The Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House, formerly The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, was integrated into the Honolulu Museum of Art under this name. It was the only museum in the state of Hawaii devoted exclusively to contemporary art. The Contemp ...
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The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is the world's largest children's museum. It is located at 3000 North Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Indiana in the United Northwest Area neighborhood of the city. The museum is accredited by the American Al ...
, shortened TCM in its inventory numbers (for example, the museum's most famous ''Triceratops'' specimen has been named TCM 2001.93.1)
Science and medicine
* T
CM, central
memory T cell
Memory T cells are a subset of T lymphocytes that might have some of the same functions as memory B cells. Their lineage is unclear.
Function
Antigen-specific memory T cells specific to viruses or other microbial molecules can be found in both ...
, in medicine
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Theory of Condensed Matter group
The Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and is part of the School of Physical Sciences. The laboratory was opened in 1874 on the New Museums Site as a laboratory for experimental physics and is named ...
, a theoretical physics research group in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge
* Tetrachloromethane, an organic compound also known as
carbon tetrachloride
Carbon tetrachloride, also known by many other names (such as tetrachloromethane, also IUPAC nomenclature of inorganic chemistry, recognised by the IUPAC, carbon tet in the cleaning industry, Halon-104 in firefighting, and Refrigerant-10 in HVAC ...
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Traditional Chinese medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an alternative medical practice drawn from traditional medicine in China. It has been described as "fraught with pseudoscience", with the majority of its treatments having no logical mechanism of action ...
, a range of traditional medicine practices used in China.
* Trajectory correction maneuver, in space travel; see, for example,
Voyager 1
''Voyager 1'' is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System and interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere. Launched 16 days after its twin ''Voyager 2'', ''Voya ...
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Trichloromethane
Chloroform, or trichloromethane, is an organic compound with formula C H Cl3 and a common organic solvent. It is a colorless, strong-smelling, dense liquid produced on a large scale as a precursor to PTFE. It is also a precursor to various ref ...
or chloroform, a solvent, and former anaesthetic
Models and processes
* Three-component model of
organizational commitment
In organizational behavior and industrial and organizational psychology, organizational commitment is an individual's psychological attachment to the organization. Organizational scientists have also developed many nuanced definitions of organiza ...
in organizational behavior and industrial and organizational psychology
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Total cost management, a process using principles of cost engineering for portfolio, program, and project management
Sports
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Toronto Canada Moose
The Toronto Blue Ice Jets were a Junior ice hockey team based out of Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. The team played in the Greater Metro Junior A Hockey League (GMHL).
History
The Jets were Thornhill's only Junior hockey team after the Ontario Provi ...
, a tier II junior ''A'' ice hockey team based out of Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
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Twin Cities Marathon
The Twin Cities Marathon (TCM) is an annual Marathon (sport), marathon in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area which normally takes place the first weekend in October. The race is often called "The Most Beautiful Urban Marathon in America" due to ...
, an annual marathon in Minneapolis-Saint Paul
Other
* tcm, ISO 639-3 code for the
Sumeri language
Sumuri or Sumeri (one of two Papuan languages also known as Tanah Merah) is a language spoken in Sumuri District, Teluk Bintuni Regency on the Bomberai Peninsula by about a thousand people.
Distribution
In Sumuri District of Teluk Bintuni Reg ...
of West Papua, New Guinea
* The Creativity Movement, an arm of
Creativity (religion)
Creativity, historically known as The (World) Church of the Creator, is an atheistic ( "nontheistic") white supremacist religious movement which espouses white separatism, antitheism, antisemitism, scientific racism, homophobia, and religious ...
, a white supremacist organisation
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TRADOC Capability Manager, personnel responsible for US Army user requirements
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