Tadpole (disambiguation)

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Tadpole or Tadpoles may refer to:

• A tadpole is a pollywog, a larval amphibian.
• A galaxy with a long tidal trail, see Tadpole Galaxy.
• Tadpole is a 2002 film directed by Gary Winick about a boy who falls in love with an older woman.
• In physics, a tadpole is a Feynman diagram with one external leg, and it encodes a one-point function (correlation function of one field). The name is due to Sidney Coleman.
• In the US Navy, it has two meanings:
  • a sailor who has not yet crossed the equator while on a ship – this is termed a pollywog. See crossing the line.
  • a US Navy SEAL candidate (both officers and enlisted) who have not completed the Basic Underwater Demolitions/SEAL (BUD/S) course in Coronado, California.
• Some scuba diving clubs have an entry class called Tadpoles for younger children who want to start scuba diving.
• Scuba diving clubs in Britain formerly used the nickname "tadpole" for some sorts of early aqualung with small cylinders, or for small aqualung cylinders: see Aqua-lung#"Tadpoles".
• Tadpole (band) is a New Zealand band.
• Tadpole (company) is a computer company perhaps best known for the SPARCbook line of SPARC-based laptops.
• Tadpoles — A psychedelic rock band.
• A form of Tricycle having two wheels in front and one wheel in back.