Trap
A trap is a device or tactic intended to catch an intruder, enemy, error, or substance.
Trap may also refer to:
- Giovanni Trapattoni, Italian association football coach and former player known by this name
- Bat and trap, an old game related to cricket
- Deccan traps (trap), a term used in geology for some rock formations shaped like steps, derived from the Dutch word for stair.
- Deep-level trap, a crystalline defect in a semiconductor material.
- Drain trap
- Ink trap, a feature of some typefaces that are spaces where printing ink can accumulate
- Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel (TRAP), US military acronym for a rescue mission retrieving a downed aircraft.
- Tartrate resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP), in biology
- TNF receptor associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS), an acronym for the cutaneous condition tumor necrosis factor receptor associated periodic syndrome
- Trap (carriage), a type of horse-drawn carriage
- TRAP transporter, a type of prokaryotic solute transport in biology.
- Trap (computing), a code or signal designed to capture errors and reveal where they are
- Technology Recovery Action Plan (Trap), in software change management process
- Trap, common Internet slang for a particularly convincing pre-operative, Male-to-Female transexual or cross-dresser
- Trap (novel), a novel by Peter Mathers
- Trap (plumbing), a U-shaped pipe located below a drain; also called a water seal
- Trap (poker), a poker strategy
- Trap (printing), a commercial printing technique to overcome registration problems
- Trap, Carmarthenshire, a hamlet in Wales
- Trap basalt (flood basalt), a type of rock formation
- TRAP law, a type of legislation used to restrict abortion providers
- Trap room, a part of a theater
- Trap run, an American football play
- Trap shooting
- Twin reversed arterial perfusion (TRAP), a twin pregnancy abnormality
- Magnetic trap (disambiguation), various meanings, in physics
See also