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Talk Talk - Communication terms Category: General technical and industrial Date & country: 28/05/2010, UK Words: 18630

turtle
(reptile) Freshwater or marine reptile whose body is protected by a shell. Turtles are related to tortoises, and some species can grow to a length of up to 2.5 m/8 ft. Turtles often travel long distances to lay their eggs on the b...

turkey
Any of several large game birds of the pheasant family, Meleagrididae, order Galliformes, native to the Americas. The wild turkey Meleagris galloparvo reaches a length of 1.3 m/4.3 ft, and is native to North and Central American woodlands. The domesticated turkey derives from t...

turbot
Any of various flatfishes of the flounder group prized as food, especially Scophthalmus maximus found in European waters. It grows up to 1 m/3 ft long and weighs up to 14 kg/30 lb. It is brownish above and whitish underneath

tunicate
Any marine chordate of the subphylum Tunicata (Urochordata), for example the sea squirt. Tunicates have transparent or translucent tunics made of cellulose. They vary in size from a few millimetres to 30 cm/1 ft in length, and are cylindrical, circular, or irregular in shape. There are more than 1,000 species. Pyrosomes are small tunicates, onl...

tuatara
Lizardlike reptile of the genus Sphenodon. It grows up to 70 cm/2.3 ft long, is greenish black, and has a spiny crest down its back. On the top of its head is the pineal body, or so-called `third eye`, linked to the brain, which probably acts as a kind of light me...

turnstone
Any small wading shorebirds of the genus Arenaria, order Charadriiformes, especially the ruddy turnstone A. interpres, which breeds in the Arctic and migrates to the southern hemisphere. It is seen on rocky beaches, turning over stones for small crustaceans and insects. It is about 23 cm/9 in long and has a...

tucu-tuco
Any member of the genus Ctenomys, a burrowing South American rodent about 20 cm/8 in long with a 7 cm/3 in tail. It has a large head, sensitive ears, and enormous incisor teeth. Tucu-tucos spend most of their time below ground in a burrow system, generally one animal to a burrow. The name tucu-tuco is an attempt t...

tuber
Swollen region of an underground stem or root, usually modified for storing food. The potato is a stem tuber, as shown by the presence of terminal and lateral buds, the `eyes` of the potato. Root tubers, for example dahlias, developed from adventitious roots (growing from the stem, not from...

turbojet
Jet engine that derives its thrust from a jet of hot exhaust gases. Pure turbojets can be very powerful but use a lot of fuel. A single-shaft turbojet consists of a shaft (rotor) rotating in a casing. At the front is a multiblade compressor, which takes in and compresses air and delivers it to on...

turbofan
Jet engine of the type used by most airliners, so called because of its huge front fan. The fan sends air not only into the engine for combustion but also around the engine for additional thrust. This results in a faster and more fuel-efficient propulsive jet (see jet propulsion)

turbocharger
Turbine-driven device fitted to engines to force more air into the cylinders, producing extra power. The turbocharger consists of a `blower`, or compressor, driven by a turbine, which in most units is driven by the exhaust gases leaving the engine

Turkish language
Language of central and West Asia, the national language of Turkey. It belongs to the Altaic language family. Varieties of Turkish are spoken in northwestern Iran and several of the Central Asian Republics, and all have been influenced by Arabic and Persian. Originally written in Arabic script, it has been written within Turkey in a variant of the ...

Tutankhamen
King (pharaoh) of ancient Egypt of the 18th dynasty, about 1333–1323 BC. A son of Akhenaton (also called Amenhotep IV), he was about 11 at his accession. In 1922 his tomb was discovered by the British archaeologists Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings at Luxor, almost unt...

turbine
Click images to enlargeEngine in which steam, water, gas, or air (see windmill) is made to spin a rotating shaft by pushing on angled blades, like a fan. There are two sets of blades, the stator (does not rotate) and the rotor (does rotate). The rotating turbine shaft can be connected to an electricity generator. Turbines...

tunnel
Passageway through a mountain, under a body of water, or underground. Tunnelling is a significant branch of civil engineering in both mining and transport. The difficulties naturally increase with the size, length, and depth of tunnel, but with the mechanical appliances now available no serious limitations are imposed. In the 19th century there wer...

Tubman, Harriet Ross
US abolitionist. Born a slave in Maryland, she escaped to Philadelphia (where slavery was outlawed) in 1849. She helped set up the Underground Railroad, a secret network of sympathizers to help slaves escape to the North and Canada. During the American Civil War (1861–65) she spied for the Union...

tufa
Soft, porous, limestone rock, white in colour, deposited from solution from carbonate-saturated ground water around hot springs and in caves. Undersea tufa columns, such as those in the Ikka Fjord in southwestern Greenland, that form over alkaline springs, can reach 20 m/65 ft in height and grow at about 50 cm/20 in per year. They provi...

Tula
(Mexico) Ancient city of the Toltec civilization in central Mexico, 65 km/40 mi northwest of Mexico City, which flourished from about 750 to 1168. At its height, it is thought to have housed a population of around 40,000. The modern town of Tula de Allende is nearby. The centre of the ruin...

Tuscan
In classical architecture, one of the five orders (types of column)

Tunisia
Country in North Africa, on the Mediterranean Sea, bounded southeast by Libya and west by Algeria. Government Tunisia has a presidential political system, dominated by a ruling political party. The 1959 constitution, as amended in 2002, provides for a president, who is both head of state and government, elected by universal suffrage for a five-...

Turkey
Click images to enlargeCountry between the Black Sea to the north and the Mediterranean Sea to the south, bounded to the east by Armenia, Georgia, and Iran, to the southeast by Iraq and Syria, to the west by Greece and the Aegean Sea, and to the northwest by Bulgaria. Government Turkey is a unitary centralized state. It h...

Tuvalu
Country in the southwest Pacific Ocean; formerly (until 1978) the Ellice Islands; part of Polynesia. Government The constitution dates from 1978 when Tuvalu became an independent state within the Commonwealth, accepting the British monarch as head of state, represented by a resident governor general, who must be a Tuvaluan citizen and is ap...

turnip
Biennial plant widely cultivated in temperate regions for its edible white- or yellow-fleshed root and young leaves, which are used as a green vegetable. Closely allied to it is the swede (B. napus). (Brassica rapa, family Cruciferae.)

turmeric
Perennial plant belonging to the ginger family, native to India and the East Indies; also the ground powder from its tuberous rhizomes (underground stems), used in curries to give a yellow colour and as a dyestuff. (Curcuma longa, family Zingiberaceae.) In India it is traditionally applied in the form of a paste of powder to ...

tunny
Another name for tuna

Tull, Jethro
English agriculturist who in about 1701 developed a drill that enabled seeds to be sown mechanically and spaced so that cultivation between rows was possible in the growth period. His chief work, Horse-Hoeing Husbandry, was published in 1733. Tull also developed a plough with b...

TUC
Abbreviation for Trades Union Congress

Turner, Tina
US rhythm-and-blues singer and film actor. She recorded 1960–76 with her husband Ike Turner (1931–2007). Their collaborations include River Deep, Mountain High (1966), produced by Phil Spector, and Workin' Together (1970). After separating from her husband, she went on to achieve success a...

Turin shroud
Ancient piece of linen bearing the image of a body, claimed to be that of Jesus. Independent tests carried out in 1988 by scientists in Switzerland, the USA, and the UK showed that the cloth of the shroud dated from between 1260 and 1390. The shroud, property of the pope, is kept in Turin Cathedral, Italy. A more detailed 20-year study publishe...

Tukano
An indigenous Native South American people of the Vaupés region on the Colombian-Brazilian border, numbering approximately 2,000. An estimated 12,000 speak languages related to Tukano. The other main Tukanoan groups are Bara, Barasana, Cubeo, Desana, and Makuna

Turk
Member of any of the Turkic-speaking peoples of Asia and Europe, especially the principal ethnic group of Turkey. Turkic languages belong to the Altaic family and include Uzbek, Ottoman, Turkish, Azeri, Turkoman, Tatar, Kirghiz, and Yakut. The ancestors of the Turks were pastoral nomads in central Asia. Islam was introduced during the 7th centu...

Turkoman
Member of the majority ethnic group in Turkmenistan. They live to the east of the Caspian Sea, around the Kara Kum Desert, and along the borders of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran. Their language belongs to the Turkic branch of the Altaic family and is closely related to the language of Turkey. Culture The Turkomen trace descent through ...

Tunguska Event
Explosion at Tunguska, central Siberia, Russia, in June 1908, which devastated around 6,500 sq km/2,500 sq mi of forest. It is thought to have been caused by either a cometary nucleus or a fragment of Encke's Comet about 200 m/660 ft across, or possibly an asteroid – a bright falling object was seen from 600 km/375 mi away. The...

tumour
Overproduction of cells in a specific area of the body, often leading to a swelling or lump. Tumours are classified as benign or malignant (see cancer). Benign tumours grow more slowly, do not invade surrounding tissues, do not spread to other parts of the body, and do not usually recur after removal...

tungsten ore
Either of the two main minerals, wolframite (FeMn)WO₄ and scheelite, CaWO₄, from which tungsten is extracted. Most of the world's tungsten reserves are in China, but the main suppliers are Bolivia, Australia, Canada, and the USA

turkish bath
Bathing that involves exposure to warm air and steam, followed by massage and cold-water immersion. Originating from Roman and East Indian traditions, the concept was introduced to Western Europe by the Crusaders but only became popular when hot water could be supplied in sufficient quantities

Tutsi
Member of a minority ethnic group living in Rwanda and Burundi. They have politically dominated the Hutu majority and the Twa (or Pygmies) since their arrival in the area in the 14th century. In Burundi, positions of power were monopolized by the Tutsis, who carried out massacres in response to Hutu rebellions, notably 1972 and 1988. In Rwanda, whe...

Tudjman, Franjo
Croatian nationalist leader and historian, president from 1990. As leader of the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union (CDU), he led the fight for Croatian independence. During the 1991–92 civil war, his troops were hampered by lack of arms and the military superiority of the Serb-dominated federal army, but Croatia's independence...

turnaround document
Output document produced by a computer that is later, after additional data has been added, used as an input document. Examples of turnaround documents are the meter-reading cards produced by gas and electricity companies. Each card is output with customer details printed in a typeface readable by OCR (optical character recognition) software an...

turgor
Rigid condition of a plant caused by the fluid contents of a plant cell exerting a mechanical pressure against the cell wall. Turgor supports plants that do not have woody stems. Plants lacking in turgor visibly wilt. The process of osmosis plays an important part in maintaining the turgidity of plan...

Turkmenistan
Country in central Asia, bounded north by Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, west by the Caspian Sea, and south by Iran and Afghanistan. Government Under the 1992 constitution, Turkmenistan has a one-party presidential political system. The president, who is directly elected for a five-year term, is head of state and government (prime minister) and...

Tunja
Capital of the Andean department of Boyacá, east-central Colombia, 2,800 m/9,200 ft above sea level; population (1992) 112,000. It is the centre of an agricultural and mining community, and linked to Bogotá by railway. One of the oldest cities in Colombia, Tunja was formerly the seat of the Chibcha Indian kings. The Spanish re...

turnpike road
Road with a gate or barrier preventing access until a toll had been paid, common from the mid-16th–19th centuries. In 1991 a plan for the first turnpike road to be built in the UK since the 18th century was announced: the privately funded Birmingham northern relief road, 50 km/31 mi long. History In 1706 Parliament created the firs...

Tukulor empire
Muslim theocracy founded by al-Hajj 'Umar (c. 1797–1864). Stretching from western Sudan to Senegal, it flourished for most of the 19th century, but its power was sapped by continuous internal disorder

turnover
In finance, the value of sales of a business organization over a period of time. For example, if a shop sells 10,000 items in a week at an average price of £2 each, then its weekly turnover is £20,000. The profit of a company is not only affected by the total turnover but also by the rate of turnover

Tudor and Restoration London
In the 16th and 17th centuries London was transformed from a medieval city, with economic and political power focused heavily on the guild organizations and the church, to a worldwide trading and national government centre where power lay with the merchant classes and the crown or, during the English Civil War, Parliament. Its very fabric changed w...

turning effect of a force
Effect of a force allowing a body to rotate about a turning point or pivot. For example, in a lever, an effort is applied at one end of the lever to produce a turning force in order to do work on a load at the opposite end

TVP
Meat substitute usually made from soybeans. In manufacture, the soybean solids (what remains after oil has been removed) are ground finely and mixed with a binder to form a sticky mixture. This is forced through a spinneret and extruded into fibres, which are treated with salts and flavourings, wound into hanks, and then chopped up to resemble meat...

tweed
Cloth made of woollen yarn, usually of several shades, but in its original form without a regular pattern and woven on a hand loom in the more remote parts of Ireland, Wales, and Scotland, UK. Harris tweed is made on the island of Harris in the Outer Hebrides; it is highly durable and largely weatherproof. Nowadays, tweed is often machine-w...

Tweed
River rising in the Tweedsmuir Hills, 10 km/6 mi north of Moffat, southwest Scottish Borders, Scotland, and entering the North Sea at Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland; length 156 km/97 mi. It flows in a northeasterly direction, and from Coldstream until near Berwick-upon-Tweed it forms the border between England and Sc...

Twain, Mark
US writer. He established his reputation with the comic masterpiece The Innocents Abroad (1869) and two classic American novels, in dialect, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Twain's use of t...

twin
One of two young produced from a single pregnancy. Human twins may be genetically identical (monozygotic), having been formed from a single fertilized egg that splits into two cells, both of which became implanted. Nonidentical (fraternal or dizygotic) twins are formed when two eggs are fertilized at the same time

two-stroke cycle
Operating cycle for internal combustion piston engines. The engine cycle is completed after just two strokes (up or down) of the piston, which distinguishes it from the more common four-stroke cycle. Some power mowers and lightweight motorcycles use two-stroke petrol engines, which are cheaper and simpler than four-strokes. Most marine ...

twelve-tone system
Method of musical composition invented by Arnold Schoenberg about 1921 in which all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are arranged in a particular order of the composer's choice, without repeating any of the notes. Such an arrangement is called a `series` or `tone row`. The init...

Twelver
Member of a Shiite Muslim sect who believes that the 12th imam (Islamic leader) did not die, but is waiting to return towards the end of the world as the Mahdi, the `rightly guided one`, to establish a reign of peace and justice on Earth

Twa
Ethnic group comprising 1% of the populations of Burundi and Rwanda. The Twa are the aboriginal inhabitants of the region. They are a pygmoid people, and live as nomadic hunter-gatherers in the forests

Twelve Tables
In ancient Rome, the earliest law code, drawn from religious and secular custom. It was published on tablets of bronze or wood at the Roman forum c. 450 BC, and though these were destroyed in the sack of Rome by Celts 387 BC, the code survived to have influence into the later Republic

twill
One of the basic cloth structures, characterized by a diagonal line on the face of the fabric. Variations in structure include herringbone weaves. Denim, gabardine, serge, and some flannels and tweeds are examples of twill fabrics

TWAIN
In computing, software standard allowing images to be taken directly from a scanner or digital camera into any image-processing application. Before TWAIN, users were restricted to the scanners explicitly supported by their software; now, the only necessity is that both items follow the TWAIN standard

two-dimensional
Describing a flat shape having two measurements, or dimensions: length and width. Examples of 2D shapes are square, rectangle, hexagon, and triangle. Accurate drawings of 2D shapes can be constructed and 2D representations of three-dimensional (3D) shapes, consisting of plan, elevations (side views), and cross-sections, serve to show th...

two greatest commandments
In Christianity, the greatest commandment is to love God totally, with heart, mind, and soul, and the second greatest is to love one's neighbour as one loves oneself (Matthew 22:37–40 and Mark 12:28–34). For Christians, these two commandments underline the laws of the Ten Commandments and the teachings of the prophets. They fo...

Tyrone
Historic county of Northern Ireland; area 3,160 sq km/1,220 sq mi. The county is largely rural, and still contains evidence of the once-flourishing linen industry. The principal towns and cities are Omagh, Dungannon, Strabane, and Cookstown. Lough Neagh is in the east and the Sperrin Mountains in the north. The main rivers are the Derg,...

Tyrol
Variant spelling of Tirol, a state of Austria

tyre
An inflatable rubber hoop fitted round the rims of bicycle, car, and other road-vehicle wheels. The first pneumatic rubber tyre was patented in 1845 by the Scottish engineer Robert William Thomson (1822–73), but it was the Scottish inventor John Boyd Dunlop of Belfast who independently reinvented pneumatic tyres for use with bicycles in 18...

Tyr
In Norse and Teutonic mythology, the god of battles, whom the Anglo-Saxons called Týw, from where `Tuesday` is derived. He was a member of the Aesir (principal warrior gods). Tyr sacrificed his right hand as a pledge when the monster Fenriswolf, son of the god-giant Loki, was being bound with an unbreakable magic chain. The w...

Tynwald
Parliament of the Isle of Man

typhus
Any one of a group of infectious diseases caused by bacteria transmitted by lice, fleas, mites, and ticks. Symptoms include fever, headache, and rash. The most serious form is epidemic typhus, which also affects the brain, heart, lungs, and kidneys and is associated with insanitary overcrowded conditions. Treatment is by antibiotics. The bacteria r...

Tyne
River of northeast England formed by the union of the North Tyne (rising in the Cheviot Hills) and South Tyne (rising near Cross Fell in Cumbria) near Hexham, Northumberland, and reaching the North Sea at Tynemouth; length 72 km/45 mi. Kielder Water (1980) in the North Tyne Valley is Europe's largest artificial lake, 12 km/7.5 mi lo...

Tyndale, William
English translator of the Bible. The printing of his New Testament was begun in Cologne in 1525 and, after he had been forced to flee, completed in Worms. Tyndale introduced some of the most familiar phrases to the English language, such as `filthy lucre`, and `God forbid`. He was strangled and burned as a heretic at Vilvorde in...

tyrannosaurus
Any of a genus Tyrannosaurus of gigantic flesh-eating dinosaurs, order Saurischia, that lived in North America and Asia about 70 million years ago. They had two feet, were up to 15 m/50 ft long, 6.5 m/20 ft tall, weighed 10 tonnes, and had teeth 15 cm/6 in long. Only a few whole skeletons are known; the most c...

typhoid fever
Acute infectious disease of the digestive tract, caused by the bacterium Salmonella typhi, and usually contracted through a contaminated water supply. It is characterized by bowel haemorrhage and damage to the spleen. Treatment is with antibiotics. The symptoms begin 10–14 days after ingestion and include fever, headache, co...

typhoon
Violent revolving storm, a hurricane in the western Pacific Ocean

Tyne and Wear
Metropolitan county of northeast England, created in 1974; in 1986, most of the functions of the former county council were transferred to the metropolitan borough councils. Area 540 sq km/208 sq mi Towns and cities Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, Sunderland (administrative centres for the districts of the same name), South Shields (adminis...

typewriter
Keyboard machine that produces characters on paper. The earliest known typewriter design was patented by Henry Mill in England in 1714. However, the first practical typewriter was built in 1867 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, by Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soulé. By 1873 Remington and Sons, US gunmakers, had produced under con...

Tyler, Wat
English leader of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. He was probably born in Kent or Essex, and may have served in the French wars. After taking Canterbury, he led the peasant army to Blackheath, outside London, and went on to invade the city. King Richard II met the rebels at Mile End and promised to...

typography
Design and layout of the printed word. Typography began with the invention of writing and developed as printing spread throughout Europe after the invention of metal moveable type by Johann Gutenberg about 1440. Hundreds of variations have followed since, but the basic design of the Frenchman Nichola...

typeface
Style of printed lettering. Books, newspapers, and other printed matter display different styles of lettering; each style is named, common examples being Times and Baskerville. These different `families` of alphabets have been designed over the centuries since printing was first introdu...

typesetting
Means by which text, or copy, is prepared for printing, now usually carried out by using specialized computer programs. Text is keyed on a typesetting machine in a similar way to typing. Laser or light impulses are projected on to light-sensitive film that, when developed, can be used to make plates for printing

Tyson, Mike
US heavyweight boxer, undisputed world champion from August 1987 to February 1990. He won the World Boxing Council heavyweight title in 1986 when he beat Trevor Berbick to become the youngest ever world heavyweight champion. He beat James `Bonecrusher` Smith for the World Boxing Association title in 1987 and later that year became the fir...

Tyche
Personification of Chance in classical Greek thought, whose cult developed in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, when it was identified with that of the Roman Fortuna

Tyrrhenian Sea
Arm of the Mediterranean Sea (c.760 km/475 mi long and 97 km/60 mi wide) surrounded by mainland Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and the Ligurian Sea. It is connected to the Ionian Sea through the Straits of Messina. Islands include Elba, Ustica, Capri, Stromboli, and the Lipari Islands. Naples and Palermo are its chief ...

Tyva
Alternative name for Tuva in the Russian Federation

Tzu-Hsi
Alternative transliteration of Zi Xi, dowager empress of China

uakari
Any of several rare South American monkeys of the genus Cacajao. There are three species, all with bald faces and long fur. About 55 cm/1.8 ft long in head and body, and with a comparatively short 15 cm/6 in tail, they rarely leap, but are good climbers, remaining in the to...

Uccello, Paolo
Florentine painter. He was one of the first to experiment with perspective, though his love of detail, decorative colour, and graceful line remains traditional. His works include St George and the Dragon (c. 1460, National Gallery, London) and A Hunt (c. 1460, Ashmolean Mus...

UCAS
Central applications service for full-time undergraduate higher-education courses in the UK. Candidates can apply through UCAS for up to six courses at various institutions, and the applications and the responses from the universities and colleges concerned are coordinated through the applications service. The universities and colleges in t...

Udmurt
Autonomous republic in central Russian Federation, north of Tatarstan and northwest of Bashkortostan; area 42,100 sq km/16,200 sq mi; population (1990) 1,619,000 (59% Russian, 31% Udmurt, 7% Tatar). The capital is Izhevsk. There are timber, peat, quartz, tool and machine manufacturing, oil, and hydroelectric power generation...

ud
Short-necked Arabic lute, the direct ancestor of the European lute, whose name derives from al 'ud (`the lute`). Some instruments have frets and some are fretless. The strings are arranged in double courses (in pairs, with each pair tuned in unison). The five course ud is the most common and popular form among p...

Uffizi
Art gallery in Florence, Italy. Built by Vasari in the 16th century as government offices, it was opened as a gallery 1765. Its collection, based on that of the Medici family, is one of the finest in Europe. The collection illustrates the whole development of the Florentine School from Cimabue and Giotto onwards, and the schools of Siena, Ferrara, ...

Ufa
Capital of Bashkortostan, central Russian Federation, located on the River Belaya, in the western Urals; population (2002) 1,042,400. Ufa is situated near the Tuymazy and Ishimbay fields in the Volga–Ural oil region, and is a centre for oil refining and the production of petrochemicals. One of the main manufacturing cities of the Urals, it...

UFO
Acronym for unidentified flying object

Ugarit
Ancient trading-city kingdom (modern Ras Shamra) on the Syrian coast. It was excavated by the French archaeologist Claude Schaeffer (1898–1982) from 1929, with finds dating from about 7000 to about 1300 BC, including the earliest known alphabet

Uganda
Landlocked country in East Africa, bounded north by Sudan, east by Kenya, south by Tanzania and Rwanda, and west by the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire). Government Uganda has a political system dominated by the ruling party, with a presidential executive but with restrictions on opposition party activities. The president is elected by...

UHF
Referring to radio waves of very short wavelength, used, for example, for television broadcasting

UHT
Abbreviation for ultra-heat treated or ultra-heat treatment

Uigur
Member of a Turkic people living in northwestern China, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan; they form about 80% of the population of the Chinese province of Xinjiang Uygur. There are about 5 million speakers of Uigur, a language belonging to the Turkic branch of the Altaic family; it is the official language of the province. The Uig...

UID
General computing term used to refer to a number, such as a product code, registration code, or a text entry. In databases, the UID can also be referred to as the key field, a unique identifier to a particular record. If the user does not specify a key field, the software must generate a UID so that each entry is individually tagged

Ujung Pandang
Chief port and capital of Sulawesi Selatan province on Sulawesi island, Indonesia; population (2000) 1,064,000. As well as fishing and food processing, industries include textiles and paper manufacture. Exports include coffee, rubber, copra, and spices. The city is home to Hasanuddin University (1956), the leading institution of higher educatio...

ukulele
Musical instrument, a small four-stringed Hawaiian guitar, of Portuguese origin. It is easy to play; music for ukulele is written in a form of tablature showing finger positions on a chart of the fingerboard

UK
Abbreviation for the United Kingdom