TT

See also: tt, Tt, .tt, -tt, T_T, and 丁丁

Translingual

Etymology 1

Symbol

TT

1. (metrology) Symbol for teratesla, an SI unit of magnetic flux density equal to 10¹² teslas.

Etymology 2

Symbol

TT

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Trinidad and Tobago.

   Synonym: TTO (alpha-3)

English

Adjective

TT

1. Initialism of tuberculin tested (a quality of milk in post-war Britain)

Noun

TT (plural TTs)

1. Initialism of tabletop.
2. Initialism of tag team.
3. Initialism of tandem turn.
4. Initialism of terrestrial time.
5. Initialism of therapeutic touch.
6. Initialism of time trial.
7. Initialism of time-traveller.
8. (music) Initialism of tritone.
9. (firearms) Initialism of Tula Tokarev.

   Synonyms: TT pistol, Tokarev, Tokarev pistol, TT-30, TT-33

10. (artificial intelligence) Initialism of Turing test.
    • 2003, “Turing Test: 50 Years Later”, in James H. Moor, editor, The Turing test: The Elusive Standard of Artificial Intelligence, Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, pages 69–70:

      Some have also noted that the TT is anthropomorphic. It is true that the TT tests for human-like intelligence.

11. Initialism of trust territory.
12. Initialism of thumb tip.
13. (translation studies) Initialism of target text.

    Antonym: ST

    • 2004, Christina Schäffner, edited by Kirsten Malmkjær, Translation in Undergraduate Degree Programmes, John Benjamins Publishing Co, page 119:

      [S]tudents in their first year believe that source text and target text should be identical in content, that the TT should be a reproduction of the ST in another language, and that the TT should read well and be understandable.

See also

• (time trial): ITT, TTT

Proper noun

TT

1. Initialism of TikTok.
   • 2022 September 25, @TheStarfishface, Twitter‎^[1], archived from the original on 18 January 2024:

     I keep getting rude comments about my custom brushes being "cheating" on TT so here's a reminder that there's no such thing as cheating in art and using the tools available to you is good, actually

2. Initialism of Teen Titans.
3. Initialism of Time Team.
4. Initialism of Tourist Trophy.

Finnish

Noun

TT

1. Initialism of tietokonetomografia.
2. Initialism of teologian tohtori.

Lithuanian

Proper noun

TT ?

1. Abbreviation of Tvarka ir Teisingumas.