Tamper

Tamper can mean:

• Tamp, a device used to compact or flatten an aggregate or other powdered or granular material, like ground coffee or gravel
• A tool used to pack tobacco into a smoking pipe, as well as to flatten or scoop the ash; usually nail-shaped and sometimes combined into a pipe tool
• Ballast tamper, a machine that tamps railroad track ballast
• Tamper, or neutron reflector, a shell of dense material surrounding the fission core of a nuclear fission weapon
• tamper/pusher, dense material surrounding the fusion fuel of a hydrogen bomb

See also

• Tampering (disambiguation), making changes, often illegally, among other meanings