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Tec*ton"ic (?), a. 1. (Biol.) Structural.

2. (Geol. & Phys. Geog.) Of, pert. to, or designating, the rock structures and external forms resulting from the deformation of the earth's crust; as, tectonic arches or valleys.

Tec*ton"ics (?), n. The science or art by which implements, vessels, buildings, etc., are constructed, both in relation to their use and to their artistic design.

||Te*des"co (?), a.; pl. Tedeschi (#). [It., of Germanic origin. See Dutch.] German; -- used chiefly of art, literature, etc.

||Te De"um (?). A musical setting of the Te Deum.

Tee, n. The letter T, t; also, something shaped like, or resembling in form, the letter T.

Tee (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Teed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Teeing.] (Golf) To place (the ball) on a tee.

Teeing ground. (Golf) The space from within which the ball must be struck in beginning the play for each hole.

Tees"wa`ter (?), n. [From the river Tees, northern England.] 1. A breed of cattle formerly bred in England, but supposed to have originated in Holland and to have been the principal stock from which the shorthorns were derived.

2. An old English breed of sheep allied to the Leicester.

Tee-to"-tum (?), n. [Cf. Teetotaler.] A workingmen's resort conducted under religious influences as a counteractant to the drinking saloon. [Colloq. or Cant]

Tel*au"to*gram (?), n. A message transmitted and recorded by a teleautograph.

Tel*au"to*graph (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + autograph.] A facsimile telegraph for reproducing writing, pictures, maps, etc. In the transmitter the motions of the pencil are communicated by levers to two rotary shafts, by which variations in current are produced in two separate circuits. In the receiver these variations are utilized by electromagnetic devices and levers to move a pen as the pencil moves. -- Tel`au*tog"ra*phist (#), n.

Tel`e*chi"ro*graph (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + chei`r, cheiro`s, hand + -graph.] An instrument for telegraphically transmitting and receiving handwritten messages, as photographically by a beam of light from a mirror.

Te*le"ga (?), n. [Russ. telyega.] A rude four-wheeled, springless wagon, used among the Russians.

Te*leg"o*ny (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + root of Gr. &?; to be born.] (Biol.) The supposed influence of a father upon offspring subsequent to his own, begotten of the same mother by another father. -- Te*leg"o*nous (#), a.

Te*leg"ra*phone (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + -graph + &?; sound.] An instrument for recording and reproducing sound by local magnetization of a steel wire, disk, or ribbon, moved against the pole of a magnet connected electrically with a telephone receiver, or the like.

Tel`e*graph"o*scope (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + -graph + -scope.] An instrument for telegraphically transmitting a picture and reproducing its image as a positive or negative. The transmitter includes a camera obscura and a row of minute selenium cells. The receiver includes an oscillograph, ralay, equilibrator, and an induction coil the sparks from which perforate a paper with tiny holes that form the image.

Telegraph plant. An East Indian tick trefoil (Meibomia gyrans), whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like the arms of a semaphore, and also rotate on their axes.

Tel`e*hy`dro*ba*rom"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + hydrobarometer.] An instrument for indicating the level of water in a distant tank or reservior.

Tel`e-i*con"o*graph (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + iconograph.] 1. An instrument essentially the same as the telemetrograph.

2. A form of facsimile telegraph.

Tel`-el-A*mar"na (?), n. [Ar., hill of Amarna.] A station on the Nile, midway between Thebes and Memphis, forming the site of the capital of Amenophis IV., whose archive chamber was discovered there in 1887. A collection of tablets (called the Tel-el-Amarna, or the Amarna, tablets) was found here, forming the Asiatic correspondence (Tel-el-Amarna letters) of Amenophis IV. and his father, Amenophis III., written in cuneiform characters. It is an important source of our knowledge of Asia from about 1400 to 1370 b. c..

Tel`e*lec"tric (?), a. [Gr. th^le far + electric.] (Elec.) Of or pertaining to transmission, as of music, to a distance by electricity.

Tel`e*lec"tro*scope (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + electro- + -scope.] Any apparatus for making distant objects visible by the aid of electric transmission.

Tel`e*me*chan"ic (?), a. [Gr. th^le far + mechanic.] Designating, or pert. to, any device for operating mechanisms at a distance. -- Tel`e*mech"a*nism (#), n.

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Tel`e*me`te*or"o*graph (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + meteorograph.] Any apparatus recording meteorological phenomena at a distance from the measuring apparatus, as by electricity or by compressed air; esp., an apparatus recording conditions at many distant stations at a central office. -- Tel`e*me`te*or*o*graph"ic (#), a.