Tadpole (disambiguation)
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A tadpole is a pollywog, a larval amphibian but the term Tadpole or Tadpoles may also refer to:
- Tadpole Galaxy, a galaxy with a long tidal trail, see.
- Tadpole (film), 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), a New Zealand band
- Tadpoles (band), a psychedelic rock band
- Tadpoles — a 1969 album by the Bonzo Dog Band.
- Tadpole is a computer company perhaps best known for the SPARCbook line of SPARC-based laptops.
- A form of Tricycle having two wheels in front and one wheel in back - see also Low-energy_vehicle
- Tadpole (dinghy)