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Tap

Tap may refer to:

In engineering: Tap (valve), controls the release of a liquid or gas
Tap (transformer), an intermediate connection point on an electrical transformer
Tap and die, cutting tools used to cut screw threads in solid substances (to tap, or tapping)

In entertainment: Tap dance, a form of dancing
Tapping, a playing technique for stringed instruments
Tap (film), 1989 movie starring Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis Jr
Tapping as a term for using a lag switch to cheat in online games
Tapping as a game term in Magic: The Gathering

In science: Tap or Flap consonant, a type of consonantal sound
Tap, a term commonly used in Finite impulse response filter design to denote one term of the difference equation

In places: Tap, Azerbaijan, a village in Goranboy Rayon
Táp, a village in Hungary

Other: Gaap, a demon
Telephone tapping, the monitoring of telephone conversations by a third party
Tap code, a cipher used by prisoners to communicate

TAP may stand for: TAP Portugal, a Portuguese airline
TAP Pharmaceutical Products
TAP Boyz (The Arabian Posse), a Chicago street gang
Tajna Armia Polska (Secret Polish Army), a resistance movement in Poland, during the Second World War
Tuition Assistance Program, a financial aid program in New York State
Tai Po Market Station, Hong Kong; MTR station code TAP
Trans-Adriatic Pipeline‎
Transporter associated with antigen processing
Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
IATA code: Tapachula International Airport, Chiapas, Mexico
Tactical Application Police, ammunition type
Trans-Arabian Pipeline
Tandem Affinity Purification, a method to detect protein-protein interactions
Tomographic atom probe, an instrument in which a sharp tip is ionized and a 3D atomic reconstruction is made
TUN/TAP, a virtual Ethernet device driver
Telelocator Alphanumeric Protocol, aka IXO
Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline
Test Anything Protocol, a standard output format for the display of software unit testing results
The Alpiri Project, a Semantic Web application
The Amazing Pudding, a magazine about Pink Floyd
Transferred Account Procedure the mechanism by which mobile telecom operators exchange roaming billing information
Test Access Port or network tap, in computer and communications equipment
Test Access Port, another name for the controlling state machine part of the JTAG boundary scan architecture
Temporal Analysis of Products, a transient experimental reactor used to characterize heterogeneous catalysts
Topfield TAP, a software program used to customise the operation of a Topfield PVR
Transit Access Pass, a multi-ride fare card used in Los Angeles County
Molson Coors Brewing Company, the NYSE and TSX stock symbol
Teens Against Pornography, a support forum for teenagers struggling with pornography
Thallium Hydrogen Phthalate, an organometallic crystal
Microsoft TAP, an acronym for Microsoft Technology Adoption Program, a select program for beta software releases
Time-sharing Assembly Program for the SDS 940 computer
TAP (novelette), a 1995 novelette by Greg Egan
Technological American Party, June 1971 Hoffman and Al Bell started the pioneer phreak magazine
Telelocator Alphanumeric Protocol (TAP), a protocol for submitting requests to a cellular or pager service as a numeric or alphanumeric message.
Tasmanians Against the Pulpmill Inc., a group campaigning to stop the building of the Bell Bay Pulp Mill.

See also

Taps (disambiguation)

Source: Wikipedia

Translation

The word "Tap" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Danish, German, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese.

Translation(s) in other languages: Czech: TAP, French: TAP, Italian: TAP, Japanese: TAP.


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