TCM

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TCM may refer to:

Chemistry and physics

• Theory of Condensed Matter group, a theoretical physics research group in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge
• Tetrachloromethane, an organic compound also known as carbon tetrachloride
• Trichloromethane or chloroform, a solvent and former anaesthetic

Companies

• Teledyne Continental Motors, an American engine manufacturing company
• Times Community Media, an American newspaper company
• Toshiba Consumer Marketing Corporation, a division of Toshiba
• Transportas Companhia de Macau, a bus company in Macau
• Turner Classic Movies, a U.S. cable TV and satellite network:
  • Turner Classic Movies (UK and Ireland)
  • TCM, Latin American version of the channel
  • Turner Classic Movies Germany, renamed TNT Film in 2009
  • Turner Classic Movies (Nordic)
  • Turner Classic Movies (Middle East and Africa)
  • Turner Classic Movies (Asia)

Computing and telecommunications

• Thermal Conduction Module, by IBM
• Tightly-coupled memory, memory which resides directly on the processor of a computer - see multiprocessing
• Time Compression Multiplex, a time division duplex scheme
• Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling, a collection of software tools to present specifications of software systems
• Trellis coded modulation, a signal modulation scheme for telecommunications

Places

• McChord Field, Washington state, United States (IATA airport code: TCM)
• The Computer Museum, Boston
• The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, an art museum now called the Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House
• The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, shortened TCM in its inventory numbers (for example, the museum's most famous Triceratops specimen has been named TCM 2001.93.1)

Music

• The Color Morale, a post-hardcore band from Rockford, Illinois
• The Crystal Method, an electronic music group
• Tianjin Conservatory of Music
• Trinity College of Music, a leading music conservatory, based in Greenwich, London, United Kingdom

Sports and games

• The Corporate Machine, a 2001 personal computer game from Stardock
• Toronto Canada Moose, a tier II junior A ice hockey team based out of Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
• Total Club Manager, football (soccer) management series of video games from Bright Future (in older releases EA sports)
• Twin Cities Marathon, an annual marathon in Minneapolis-Saint Paul

Film

• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (franchise), a horror film franchise
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, the original 1974 film
  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 film), the 2003 remake

Other uses

• tcm, ISO 639-3 code for the Sumeri language of West Papua, New Guinea
• Three-component model of organizational commitment in organizational behavior and industrial and organizational psychology
• Total cost management, a process using principles of cost engineering for portfolio, program and project management
• Traditional Chinese medicine, a range of traditional medicine practices used in China that developed over several thousand years
• Trajectory correction maneuver, in space travel, e.g. Mars Orbiter Mission
• TRADOC Capability Manager, personnel responsible for US Army user requirements

See also

• T_CM, central memory T cell, in medicine