trephine |
a circular surgical saw, mounted on a shaft and operated by a lateral handle, used to remove disks of bone, esp. from the skull. [2 definitions] |
trepidation |
a condition of anxiety or dread; alarm. [2 definitions] |
trespass |
in law, an act of entering upon or invading the property, rights, or person of another without permission and with the actual or implied use of force. [5 definitions] |
tress |
(pl.) a woman's or girl's locks or curls of hair, usu. long and unbound. [2 definitions] |
trestle |
a stable support formed by a horizontal beam or bar joined to the tops of two vertical members that slope or widen outward and downward. [2 definitions] |
trestlework |
a trestle or trestle system, such as the support structure of a bridge. |
T. rex |
shortened form of "Tyrannosaurus rex," a large carnivorous North American dinosaur of the Cretaceous period that had small forelimbs and walked on its hind legs; tyrannosaur. |
trey |
a playing card, die, domino, or the like with three pips. |
tri- |
three; three times. |
triable |
subject or liable to trial in a court of law. |
triacetate |
an acetate compound that contains three acetate groups. |
triad |
a group of three persons or things that are similar or related. [2 definitions] |
triage |
a system of determining priority of medical treatment, on the basis of need, chances of survival, and the like, to victims on a battlefield or in a hospital emergency ward. [2 definitions] |
trial |
in law, an examination of evidence presented to a judicial tribunal, usu. in order to determine a person's guilt or innocence. [8 definitions] |
trial and error |
an empirical method of solving a problem by trying out a variety of means and rejecting those that result in error. |
trial balance |
in double-entry bookkeeping, a statement of all open debit and credit balances, usu. made to test their equality before a final statement is issued. |
trial balloon |
any tentative action, statement, policy, or program that is released to test public opinion before a final version is put into effect. [2 definitions] |
trial jury |
see "petit jury." |
triangle |
a geometric plane figure having three sides and three angles. [2 definitions] |
triangular |
of, concerning, or shaped like a triangle. [3 definitions] |
triangulate |
to make triangular or divide into triangles. [3 definitions] |