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| terabyte: | a little over 1 trillion bytes (2^40 bytes) |
| thread: | an executable entity consisting of a program counter, a stack, and a set of register values |
| thread of control: | a single path of execution through a program, a dynamic model, or some other representation of control flow. |
| timeout: | the interval of time after which an operation will give up its action |
| token ring: | a LAN similar to a slotted ring except that it can handle larger, variable-sized packets (IEEE standard) |
| totally-ordered multicast: | a multicast of several messages where the messages reach all of the recipients in the same order |
| transition: | a change of state caused by an event |
| transparency: | concealment from the user and application programmer of the separation of components in a distributed system |
| transport address: | an address for messaging that is composed of a network address and a port number |
| two-phase locking: | a concurrency control technique consisting of two phases: a growing phase, in which new locks are acquired; and a shrinking phase, in which the locks are released |
| two's complement: | an algorithm carried out by inverting the bits of a binary number, then adding one to the result |