TAP

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Tap may refer to:

• Tap (valve), controls the release of a liquid or gas
• Tap or flap consonant, a type of consonantal sound
• Telephone tapping, the monitoring of telephone conversations by a third party
• Tap (transformer), an intermediate connection point on an electrical transformer
• Tapping, a playing technique for stringed instruments
• Tap dance
• Tap (gaming), tapping as a gaming term
• Tap (film), 1989 movie starring Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis Jr
• To tap a furnace containing molten metal is to remove the metal from the furnace.
• Tap, one of two 1974 FIFA World Cup mascots.
• Táp, a village in Hungary
• Tap, a term commonly used in FIR filter design to denote one term of the difference equation.
• Tap and die, cutting tools used to cut screw threads in solid substances (to tap, or tapping).

TAP may stand for:

• TAP Portugal, a Portuguese airline
• TAP Pharmaceutical Products
• Test Access Port or network tap, in computer and communications equipment
• Trans-Adriatic Pipeline‎
• Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline
• transporter associated with antigen processing
• Tajna Armia Polska, a resistance movement in Poland, during the Second World War
• Tuition Assistance Program, a financial aid program in New York State
• Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
• Trans-Arabian Pipeline
• Tandem Affinity Purification, a method to detect protein-protein interactions
• Tomographic Atom Probe, an instrument in which a sharp tip is ionized and a 3D atomic reconstruction is made.
• TUN/TAP, a virtual Ethernet device driver
• Telocator Alphanumeric input Protocol aka IXO
• Test Anything Protocol, a standard output format for the display of software unit testing results
• The Alpiri Project a Semantic Web application
• The Amazing Pudding, a magazine about Pink Floyd
• Transferred Account Procedure the mechanism by which mobile telecom operators exchange roaming billing information
• Test Access Port, another name for the controlling state machine part of the JTAG boundary scan architecture
• Temporal Analysis of Products, A transient experimental reactor used to characterize heterogeneous catalysts.
• Topfield Application Program, a software program used to customise the operation of a Topfield PVR.
• Transit Access Pass, a multi-ride fare card used in Los Angeles County
• TAP, the NYSE and TSX stock symbol for the Molson Coors Brewing Company.
• Teens Against Pornography, a support forum for teenagers struggling with pornography.
• Thallium Hydrogen Phthalate, an organometallic crystal.
• Microsoft TAP, an acronym for Microsoft Technology Adoption Program, a select program for beta software releases
• Time-sharing Assembly Program for the SDS 940 computer
• TAP (novelette) is a 1995 novelette by Greg Egan

[edit] See also

• Taps (disambiguation)