TAP

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Tap may refer to:

• Tap (valve), controls the release of a liquid or gas
• Tap or Flap consonant, a type of consonantal sound
• Telephone tapping, the monitoring of telephone conversations by a third party
• Tap (transformer), an intermediate connection point on an electrical transformer
• Tapping, a playing technique for stringed instruments
• Tap code
• Tap dance, a form of dancing
• Tap (gaming), tapping as a gaming term
• Tap (film), 1989 movie starring Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis Jr
• tap of a furnace containing molten metal, to remove the metal from the furnace
• Tap, one of two 1974 FIFA World Cup mascots
• Tap, a term commonly used in Finite impulse response 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)

Places:

• Tap, Azerbaijan, a village in Goranboy Rayon
• Táp, a village in Hungary

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.

[edit] See also

• Taps (disambiguation)

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