Glossary

Targa Image File: a raster graphics format supporting 8-32 bit color depth with alpha channel. Widely used in game development, video editing, and 3D rendering pipelines.

Tagged Image File Format: a flexible, adaptable file format for handling raster images. Widely used in publishing, photography, and document scanning.

Temporary File: a file created by applications to hold data temporarily during processing. Usually deleted automatically when no longer needed.

Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language: a configuration file format designed to be easy to read and write. Used by Rust (Cargo.toml), Python (pyproject.toml), and Hugo.

BitTorrent Metainfo File: contains metadata about files to be shared via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol including tracker URLs and file hashes.

MPEG Transport Stream: a container format for broadcasting and streaming audio, video, and data. Used in digital television (DVB, ATSC), Blu-ray, and HLS streaming.

Tab-Separated Values: a plain text format using tabs to delimit columns. It avoids CSV quoting issues when data contains commas.

TypeScript JSX: a TypeScript file containing JSX syntax, combining TypeScript's type safety with React's component syntax.

True Audio: a free, real-time lossless audio codec offering fast compression and decompression with good compression ratios.

TrueType Font: a font format developed by Apple and Microsoft in the late 1980s. It contains both screen and printer data in a single file and is supported by all operating systems.

Timed Text Markup Language: a W3C standard XML-based format for timed text content. Used for broadcast captions and streaming subtitles.

Plain Text File: contains unformatted text with no special encoding or markup. It is the most basic and universally compatible file format.

A utility-first CSS framework that provides low-level utility classes for building custom designs directly in HTML. Unlike component-based frameworks like Bootstrap, Tailwind encourages composing styl...

Configuration file for Tailwind CSS, a utility-first CSS framework. Defines content paths, theme customization, and plugin configuration.

Tool Command Language: a dynamic scripting language used in embedded systems, network testing (Cisco), and as an extension language for applications via the Tk GUI toolkit.

A network protocol that provides a command-line interface for communicating with a remote device over a TCP connection. Telnet transmits data in plain text without encryption, making it insecure for m...

A parameter that controls the randomness of an AI model's output. Lower temperature values produce more deterministic and focused responses, while higher values increase creativity and diversity but m...

A custom-designed application-specific integrated circuit developed by Google for accelerating machine learning workloads. TPUs are optimized for tensor operations and are used to train and run large-...

An open-source Infrastructure as Code tool by HashiCorp that enables users to define and provision cloud infrastructure using a declarative configuration language called HCL. Terraform manages resourc...

A JSON file tracking the current state of Terraform-managed infrastructure. Maps real resources to configuration for drift detection and plan generation.