Tamper

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Tamper can mean:

  • A device used for tamping, commonly to prepare ground coffee beans to make espresso.
  • To make unauthorised alterations to something. Products can be made tamper-evident to protect against tampering.
  • A ballast tamper, a machine that tamps track ballast.
  • In nuclear weapon design, either a shell surrounding the fission core and keeping the nuclear material assembled during the explosion for longer time, raising yield, or the outermost layer of a thermonuclear component.
  • A tool with a long handle and a flat metal head, used in a "stomping" type motion to flatten ground, gravel or other type of materials, for gardening or landscaping tasks. See also Spud bar.
  • An Australian-based band/music project. Official Tamper page Myspace Tamper page