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Tick (disambiguation)

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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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Computing

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  • 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

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  • 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

See also

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