Tether (disambiguation)
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A Tether is a cord that secures something to something else.
Tether may also refer to:
- IT related
- Tethering, connecting to the Internet using a computer connected to a cell phone via a cable or Bluetooth DUN connection
- Tethered iOS Jailbreaking, meaning the user has to plug their iOS device into a computer and re-jailbreak it when it is rebooted
- Untethered iOS Jailbreaking, meaning that an iOS device can be rebooted without connecting it to a computer
- Songs
- "Tether," a song by Sarah Harmer from her album All of Our Names
- "Tether," a song by the Indigo Girls from their 2004 album All That We Let In
- Surname
- Tony Tether, Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- Space-related
- Tether propulsion, use of tethers to propel or stabilize objects in space
- Electrodynamic tether, a conductive tether which generates current and acts against a planetary magnetic field
- Skyhook (structure), or a tidal stabilized tether
- Space elevator, also called an orbital space elevator, geostationary orbital tether, or a beanstalk, a subset of the skyhook concept
- Other
- Tether (cell biology), an elongated cylinder of the membrane of a cell bond to a substrate
- Tether (hieroglyph), an alphabetic uniliteral sign of ancient Egypt
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