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  Tap may refer to:
  • Tap, Azerbaijan
    Tap, Azerbaijan

    Tap is a village in the municipality of Tap Qaraqoyunlu in the Goranboy Rayon of Azerbaijan.References...
    , a village in Goranboy Rayon
  • Tap (valve)
    Tap (valve)

    A tap is a valve for controlling the release of a liquid or gas. In the British Isles and most of the Commonwealth the word is used for any everyday type of valve, particularly the fittings that control water supply to bathtubs and sinks....
    , controls the release of a liquid or gas
  • Tap or Flap consonant
    Flap consonant

    In phonetics, a flap or tap is a type of consonantal sound, which is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator is thrown against another....
    , a type of consonantal sound
  • Telephone tapping
    Telephone tapping

    Telephone tapping is the monitoring of telephone and Internet conversations by a third party, often by covert means. The telephone tap or wire tap received its name because, historically, the monitoring connection was applied to the wires of the telephone line being monitored and drew off or tapped a small amount of the electrica...
    , the monitoring of telephone conversations by a third party
  • Tap (transformer)
    Tap (transformer)

    A transformer tap is a connection point along a transformer winding that allows a certain number of turns to be selected. By this means, a transformer with a variable turns ratio is produced, enabling voltage regulation of the output....
    , an intermediate connection point on an electrical transformer
  • Tapping
    Tapping

    Tapping is a playing technique generally associated with the electric guitar, although the technique may be performed on almost any stringed instrument....
    , a playing technique for stringed instruments
  • Tap code
    Tap Code

    The tap code is a cipher, commonly used by prisoners to communicate with one another. The method of communicating is usually by "tapping" either the metal bars or the walls inside the cell, hence its name....
  • Tap dance
    Tap dance

    Tap dance was developed in the United States during the nineteenth century, and is popular in many parts of the world. The name comes from the tapping sound made when metal plates on the dancer's shoes touches a hard performance surface....
  • Tap (gaming)
    Tap (gaming)

    Tapping is a term used in a variety of ways in a number of games. Although the exact meaning varies, it generally either refers to either the physical action of actually touching something, or to the "using up" of the resources of some element of the game....
    , tapping as a gaming term
  • Tap (film)
    Tap (film)

    Tap is a 1989 film written and directed by Nick Castle.At its core is tap dancer Max Washington, just released from prison after serving time for burglary....
    , 1989 movie starring Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis Jr
  • To tap a furnace containing molten metal is to remove the metal from the furnace
  • Tap, one of two 1974 FIFA World Cup mascot
    FIFA World Cup mascot

    Each FIFA World Cup since 1966 FIFA World Cup has its own mascot. World Cup Willie, the mascot for the 1966 competition, was the first World Cup mascot, and one of the first mascots to be associated with a major sporting competition....
  • Táp
    TAP

    Tap may refer to:* Tap, Azerbaijan, a village in Goranboy Rayon* Tap , controls the release of a liquid or gas* Tap or Flap consonant, a type of consonantal sound...
    , a village in Hungary
  • Tap, a term commonly used in Finite impulse response
    Finite impulse response

    A finite impulse response filter is a type of a digital filter. The impulse response, the filter's response to a Kronecker delta input, is 'finite' because it settles to zero in a finite number of sampling intervals....
     filter design to denote one term of the difference equation
  • Tap and die, cutting tools used to cut screw threads in solid substances (to tap, or tapping)


TAP may stand for:
  • TAP Portugal
    TAP Portugal

    TAP Portugal, commonly known as TAP, is the national airline of Portugal and its leading airline. It is based in Lisbon , and is a member of Star Alliance since March 14, 2005, the same day on which the company also celebrated its 60th anniversary....
    , a Portuguese airline
  • TAP Pharmaceutical Products
    TAP Pharmaceutical Products

    TAP Pharmaceutical Products was formed in 1977 as a joint venture between the two global pharmaceutical companies, Abbott Laboratories and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co....
  • Tajna Armia Polska
    Tajna Armia Polska

    Tajna Armia Polska, TAP was a World War II#Resistance movement founded in November 1939 in Germany-occupied Poland, which was active in the areas of the Warsaw Voivodship, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Kielce Voivodship and Lublin Voivodship Voivodships....
     (Secret Polish Army), a resistance movement in Poland, during the Second World War
  • Tuition Assistance Program
    Tuition Assistance Program

    The Tuition Assistance Program is a financial aid program for students who are New York State residents and are attending a post-secondary institution in New York....
    , a financial aid program in New York State
  • Tai Po Market Station, Hong Kong; MTR station code TAP
  • Trans-Adriatic Pipeline
    Trans-Adriatic Pipeline

    Trans Adriatic Pipeline is a proposed natural gas pipeline project to transport natural gas from Greece via Albania to Italy....
    ?
  • Transporter associated with antigen processing
    Transporter associated with antigen processing

    Transporter associated with antigen processing is a member of the ATP-binding cassette transporter. It delivers cytosolic peptides into the endoplasmic reticulum , where they bind to nascent MHC class I molecules....
  • Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
    Trans-Alaska Pipeline System

    The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System , usually called the Alyeska Pipeline in Alaska or the Alaska Pipeline elsewhere, is a major United States Petroleum pipeline transport connecting oil fields in Alaska's North Slope to a North Pacific seaport where the oil can be shipped to the Lower 48 states for refining....
  • IATA code: Tapachula International Airport
    Tapachula International Airport

    Tapachula International Airport is an international airport located at Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico, is Mexico's southernmost airport. It handles national and international air traffic for the city of Tapachula....
    , Chiapas, Mexico
  • Tactical Application Police, ammunition type
  • Trans-Arabian Pipeline
  • Tandem Affinity Purification
    Tandem Affinity Purification

    The Tandem Affinity Purification is a technique for studying protein-protein interactions. It involves creating a fusion protein with a designed piece, the TAP tag, on the end....
    , 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
    TUN/TAP

    In computer networking, TUN and TAP are virtual network kernel drivers. They implement network devices that are supported entirely in software, which is different from ordinary network devices that are backed up by hardware network cards....
    , a virtual Ethernet device driver
  • Test Access Port or network tap
    Network tap

    A network TAP is a hardware device which provides a way to access the data flowing across a computer network. Computer networks, including the Internet, are collections of devices, such as computers, routers, and switches, that are connected to each other....
    , in computer and communications equipment
  • Telocator Alphanumeric input Protocol
    Telocator Alphanumeric input Protocol

    Telocator Alphanumeric input Protocol was also known at PET and IXO protocol. This protocol was used for sending one way alphanumeric pages. Originally, devices like the IXO Device were used to send Alphanumeric Pages using TAP....
     aka IXO
  • Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline
    Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline

    The Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline is a proposed natural gas pipeline transport being developed by the Asian Development Bank. The pipeline will transport Caspian Sea natural gas from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan into Pakistan and then to India....
  • Test Anything Protocol
    Test Anything Protocol

    The Test Anything Protocol is a protocol to allow communication between unit tests and a test harness. It allows individual tests to communicate test results to the testing harness in a language-agnostic way....
    , a standard output format for the display of software unit testing results
  • The Alpiri Project a Semantic Web
    Semantic Web

    The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content....
     application
  • The Amazing Pudding
    The Amazing Pudding

    The Amazing Pudding was a Pink Floyd and Roger Waters fanzine , founded by Ivor Trueman and edited and published, variously, by him , Andy Mabbett , Bruno MacDonald and Dave Walker , for ten years ....
    , a magazine about Pink Floyd
  • Transferred Account Procedure the mechanism by which mobile telecom operators exchange roaming billing information
  • Test Access Port, another name for the controlling state machine part of the JTAG
    JTAG

    Joint Test Action Group is the common name used for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 1149.1 standard entitled Standard Test Access Port and Boundary-Scan Architecture for test access ports used for testing printed circuit boards using boundary scan....
     boundary scan architecture
  • Temporal Analysis of Products
    Temporal analysis of products

    Temporal Analysis of Products, , The TAP reactor is used to characterize the kinetics and chemical conversions of a given heterogeneous catalysts....
    , A transient experimental reactor used to characterize heterogeneous catalysts
  • Topfield TAP
    Topfield TAP

    A Topfield TAP is a software application which extends the standard functionality of the Topfield products designed for digital TV. Examples of TAPs are electronic programme guides, digital photo viewers and MP3 players....
    , a software program used to customise the operation of a Topfield PVR
  • Transit Access Pass
    Transit Access Pass

    The Transit Access Pass card is a form of electronic ticketing used on public transport services within Los Angeles County, California. It is administered by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and is valid on a number of different travel systems in Los Angeles county including Metro Rail, Metro Bus, Metro Liner, an...
    , a multi-ride fare card used in Los Angeles County
  • Molson Coors Brewing Company
    Molson Coors Brewing Company

    Molson Coors Brewing Company is a company that was created by the merger of two of North America's largest brewery: Molson of Canada, and Coors Brewing Company of the United States, on February 9, 2005....
    , 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
    SDS 940

    The SDS 940 was Scientific Data Systems' first machine designed to support time sharing directly, and was based on the SDS 930's 24-bit CPU built primarily of integrated circuits....
     computer
  • TAP (novelette)
    TAP (novelette)

    "TAP" is a 1995 novelette by Greg Egan. It is set in a near-future society in which brain implants allow immersive virtual reality. The implants also allow a new kind of language called TAP ? Total Affective Protocol....
     is a 1995 novelette by Greg Egan
  • Technological American Party, June 1971 Hoffman and Al Bell started the pioneer phreak magazine
  • Telelocator Alphanumeric Protocol
    Telelocator Alphanumeric Protocol

    Telelocator Alphanumeric Protocol is a protocol for submitting requests to a cellular or pager service as a numeric or alphanumeric message. ...
     (TAP) is a protocol for submitting requests to a cellular or pager service as a numeric or alphanumeric message.

See also

  • Taps (disambiguation)
    Taps (disambiguation)

    "Taps" is a famous musical piece, played in the U.S. military during flag ceremonies and funerals.Taps may also refer to:* Taps , a 1981 film starring Timothy Hutton...