Use of English

TLEP

High-luminosity e+e- collider

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ton

imperial/US

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tonne

metric

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totalling, totalled

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TOTEM

TOTal cross section, Elastic scattering and diffraction dissociation Measurement at the LHC

Acronym doesn't need spelling out for the CERN Courier

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touchscreen

style, translation

TPC

Time Projection Chamber

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trade-off

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trademark

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trans-border

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transatlantic

no hyphen

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transboundary

no hyphen

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travel, travelling, travelled

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TREF

Tripartite Employment Conditions Forum

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trillion

Means a thousand billion, (the same as one million million) but use with care. House style dictates it may be clearer to say 1012. See numbers.

Use 1015 rather than quadrillion, unless you are deliberately setting out to put dramatic effect ahead of clarity.

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TRIUMF

Tri-University Meson Facility, Canada

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TSO

Territorial Safety Officer

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TSR(@ISOLDE)

Test Storage Ring (at ISOLDE)

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tumour

Note the "u"

X-rays have been used to treat tumours since 1895.

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turnkey

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Twitter

Capital "T" in text – but note there is a lower-case "t" in the Twitter logo. 

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two-thirds (adj. and noun)

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twofold

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UFO

Unidentified Falling Object

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ultra

no hyphen

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under way

not "underway"

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underdeveloped

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underestimate

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undersea

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underserved

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underutilise

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UNESCO

United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization

Not "Unesco"

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unidirectional

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units

All SI units are lower case when spelled out: metre (m), kilogram (kg), second (s), ampere (A), kelvin (K), candela (cd), mole (mol).

Note: The tesla is the SI-derived unit of magnetic flux density. It has a lower-case "t" when spelled out, though its symbol is an upper-case "T".

Spell them out on first mention, then use the symbol.

I weigh 75 kilograms. Last month I gained 4 kg after I stopped running 5 kilometres every morning.

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universe

not capitalised

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Universe

Upper case when referring to our Universe, otherwise lower case 

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up to date (pred.); up-to-date (adj.)

no hyphen

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updated

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upgrade (noun and verb); upgradable

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uplink

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upload

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URLs

Where it is useful to advertise a URL (in printed materials, for instance) use the following format: cern.ch/[sitename]

Example: cern.ch/writing-guidelines (note that this resolves to test-static-04.web.cern.ch, which is less easy for new users to remember).

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US

Not USA. There is hardly every any need to spell out United States, even at first mention. America is preferable in some contexts (“God bless the US” would sound silly).  It is permissible to use "American" instead of "US" as an adjective.

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usability

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usable

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user-friendly (adj.); user-friendliness

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Users Office

not "Users’ Office"

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value-added (adj.)

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vapour

but vaporise

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VELO

VErtex LOcator detector (part of the LHCb detector)

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