Tap

Tap or tapped may refer to:

Mechanical and electrical

• Tap (valve), a device for controlling the release of a liquid or gas
• Tap (transformer), part of an electrical device
• A cutting tool, part of a tap and die set

Entertainment

• Tap dance
• Tap!, a magazine for owners of Apple's iOS devices
• Tap (film)
• TAP (novelette), by Greg Egan
• Tapping, a playing technique for stringed instruments
• The Amazing Pudding, a magazine about Pink Floyd
• Topfield Application Program, a software application extending functionality of Topfield TV products
• Tap, a Magic: The Gathering keyword
• Lagging, a method of cheating in online games
• Tapped (film), 2009 documentary about bottled water's negative impact on human health and the environment

Computing and telecommunications

• Network tap, a device that monitors data on a computer network
• Telephone tap, a device that monitors phone conversations
• Tap (signal processing)
• test access port (TAP) in JTAG
• TAP (network driver)
• Telelocator Alphanumeric Protocol, a protocol for sending messages to a cellular or pager service
• Test Anything Protocol, a protocol for communication of software unit testing results
• Time-sharing Assembly Program, an application for the SDS 940 computer
• Test Access Port, part of the Joint Test Action Group boundary scan architecture
• TAP, a phreaking magazine published by the Youth International Party
• Transferred Account Procedure, a GSMA Data Record Format

Transportation

• TAP Portugal, an airline
• Transit Access Pass, a Los Angeles fare card
• Tai Po Market Station, a rail station, MTR code TAP
• Tapachula International Airport, IATA code TAP

Pipelines

• Trans Adriatic Pipeline‎, a proposed pipeline from Greece to Italy via Albania
• Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline, a proposed pipeline from Turkmenistan to India
• Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
• Trans-Arabian Pipeline, a 1947-1990 pipeline from Saudi Arabia to Lebanon

Other uses

• Tap, Azerbaijan
• Táp, Hungary
• TAP Boyz (The Arabian Posse), a street gang
• Tap code, a cipher used by prisoners to communicate
• Tap consonant, a term in phonetics
• TAP Pharmaceutical Products
• Tajna Armia Polska, a WWII Resistance movement
• Tandem Affinity Purification, a technique for studying protein interactions
• Transporter associated with antigen processing, a protein
• Molson Coors Brewing Company, NYSE symbol TAP
• Tasmanians Against the Pulpmill, a group opposing the Bell Bay Pulp Mill
• Tunis Afrique Presse, a Tunisian news agency

See also

• Taps (disambiguation)
• Tapping (disambiguation)