Category: T

A measure of wine or oil, containing four hogsheads.

A town-reeve or bailiff. Cowell.

Process of adjusting parameters of a device or model to get the desired result.

Technique in digital communications where data or signals are received in one format and are then converted to another format by embedding a protocol. Also known as encapsulation.

Lat. In the civil law. a. multitude ; a crowd or mob; a tumultuous assembly of persons. Said to consist of ten or fifteen, at the least. Calvin.

Turbary, or common of turbary, is the right or liberty of digging turf upon another man’s ground. Brown.

Test that is used to evaluate a machine’s level of intelligence. Named after Alan Turing.

A bad business move deal that once looked promising.

In Spanish law. Objections or exceptions to witnesses. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit 7, c. 10.

The great court-leet of the county, as the old county court was the court-baron. Of this the sheriff is judge, and the court is incident to his office; wherefore it is called the “sheriff’s tourn;” and it had its name originally from the sheriff making a turn of circuit about his shire, and holding this court in each respective hun- dred. Wharton.