Tick (disambiguation)
Appearance
A tick is a parasitic mite of the order Ixodida.
Tick or ticking may also refer to:
- Tick (check mark), a mark (✓, ✔, ☑, etc.) used to indicate 'yes', 'complete' or 'correct'
- Ticking, cotton or linen textile tightly woven for durability
Arts and entertainment
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- Tick (character), a spoof comicbook superhero created by Ben Edlund in 1986
- The Tick (1994 TV series), an animated series on Fox
- The Tick (2001 TV series), a live-action series on Fox
- The Tick (2016 TV series), a 2016 series on Amazon Prime
- The Tick (video game), a 1994 game based on the 1994 TV series
- Ticks (film), a 1993 direct-to-video horror film
- "Ticks" (song), a 2007 single by Brad Paisley
- "Ticking", a song by Elton John from Caribou
- "Tick", a song by Ween from GodWeenSatan: The Oneness
Computing
[edit]- Tick, atomic unit used to define system time in computing
- Tick (software), a time tracking software
- Tick, a delay of 1/18 seconds in IPX routing (IPX Rip) used instead of hop counting[clarification needed]
- Tick, a computer instruction cycle, which is, in some operating systems, a unit countable by software
- Backtick, by which the character ` is sometimes known in computing
Other uses
[edit]- Commodity tick, a unit of measurement of price movement of a stock or other exchange traded asset
- Tick Segerblom (born 1948), an American attorney and politician
- "The Tick", the Magellan Project Science Team's nickname for the first scalloped margin dome found on Venus
- "Buying on tick", buying on credit
- Ticked, isolated regions of pigment in dog coat coloration patterns
- Ticked tabby, a coat pattern of tabby cat fur
- Tick (pejorative), a pejorative used in Germany