Tail (disambiguation)

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Tail describes the rear portion of an animal's body, especially as a flexible appendage.

Tail may also refer to:

• Tail (Unix), a Unix program used to display the last few lines of a file
• Tails (Lisa Loeb album), a 1994 album by Lisa Loeb
• Tail recursion, a type of recursion in computer programming
• Tail sequence (set theory), an unbounded sequence of contiguous ordinals
• Tail rotor, a small vertical propeller mounted at the rear of a helicopter
• Tailcoat, or tails, a type of coat used in evening dress
• Fee tail, in common law
• Miles "Tails" Prower, a character in the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series
• Fat tail, the long end of a probability distribution in mathematics

Tail may also be:

• The empennage of an aircraft
• The luminous train behind a comet
• The reverse side of a coin
• The final batters in the batting order for cricket
• A colloquial reference to sexual intercourse
• A person following a target in a surveillance operation