TCM may refer to:

Arts and music

Film

* ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' (franchise), a horror film franchise ** ''

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 ** ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' (2003 film), the 2003 remake

Games

* '' The Corporate Machine'', a 2001 personal computer game from Stardock * ''

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

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 *

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 *

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 ...

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 gra ...

* Trinity College of Music, a leading music conservatory, based in Greenwich, London, United Kingdom

Automotive

* Transmission control module, an electronic device to manage an automobile's transmission

Companies

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 own ...

, an American engine manufacturing company * '' 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 systems, ...

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 *

Turner Classic Movies Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of At ...

, a U.S. cable TV and satellite network: ** Turner Classic Movies (UK and Ireland) ** 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 ...

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 ...

** Turner Classic Movies (Middle East and Africa) **

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 U ...

Computing and telecommunications

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 * 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 *

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 *

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 inven ...

, a signal modulation scheme for telecommunications

Places

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 worldwi ...

, Washington state, United States (IATA airport code: TCM) *

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 ...

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 *

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 *

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 acti ...

, 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 ...

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 * Total cost management, a process using principles of cost engineering for portfolio, program, and project management

Sports

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 *

Twin Cities Marathon The Twin Cities Marathon (TCM) is an annual 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 a course that win ...

, an annual marathon in Minneapolis-Saint Paul

Other

* tcm, ISO 639-3 code for the Sumeri language 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 * TRADOC Capability Manager, personnel responsible for US Army user requirements {{disambiguation, geo