# Tap

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**Tap**(**s**), **TAP**(**S**) or **tapped** may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

### Film

- [*Tap* (film)](/source/Tap_(film)), a 1989 American dance drama film
- [*Taps* (film)](/source/Taps_(film)), a 1981 American drama film
- [*Taps* (2006 film)](/source/Taps_(2006_film)), a short film
- [*Tapped* (film)](/source/Tapped_(film)), a 2009 documentary

### Gaming

- [Tap (gaming)](/source/Tap_(gaming)), a mechanic in *Magic: The Gathering* and other card games where a card is rotated
- Tapping, creating an artificial lag, a method of [cheating in online games](/source/Cheating_in_online_games#Lagging)
- [TapTap](/source/TapTap), video game distribution platform

### Music and dancing

- [Tap dance](/source/Tap_dance), a type of dance using the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor
- [Tapping](/source/Tapping), a guitar playing technique
- ["Taps" (bugle call)](/source/Taps_(bugle_call)), a U.S. armed forces bugle call
- '**, a 2013 album by Pat Metheny composed by John Zorn**
- [*Tap* (EP)](/source/Tap_(EP)), a 2024 extended play by Taeyong

### Publications

- *[Tap!](/source/Tap!)*, a defunct magazine for owners of Apple's iOS devices
- *[The American Prospect](/source/The_American_Prospect)*, a liberal policy magazine based in Washington, D.C.
- *TAP*, a [Youth International Party](/source/Youth_International_Party#Writings) magazine
- ["TAP" (novelette)](/source/TAP_(novelette)), by Greg Egan, 1995

## Businesses and organisations

- [The Atlantic Paranormal Society](/source/The_Atlantic_Paranormal_Society) (TAPS), an organization that investigates reported paranormal activity
- [Molson Coors Brewing Company](/source/Molson_Coors_Brewing_Company), NYSE symbol TAP
- [Secret Polish Army](/source/Secret_Polish_Army), *Tajna Armia Polska*, a Polish resistance movement in World War II
- [TAP Air Portugal](/source/TAP_Air_Portugal), Portugal's flag carrier airline
- [TAP Digital Media Ventures Corporation](/source/TAP_Digital_Media_Ventures_Corporation), a Philippine media and entertainment company
- [TAP Pharmaceuticals](/source/TAP_Pharmaceuticals), a joint venture
- [TAP Boyz](/source/TAP_Boyz) (The Arabian Posse), a Chicago street gang
- TAPS Division, [Informatics General](/source/Informatics_General), an American computer software company
- Tasmanians Against the Pulpmill, a group opposing the [Bell Bay Pulp Mill](/source/Bell_Bay_Pulp_Mill)
- [Tony Ayres Production](/source/Tony_Ayres_Production), an Australian film production company belonging to [Tony Ayres](/source/Tony_Ayres)
- [Trafficking and Prostitution Services](/source/Trafficking_and_Prostitution_Services) (TAPS), an organisation for sexual trafficking victims
- [Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors](/source/Tragedy_Assistance_Program_for_Survivors) (TAPS), a U.S. non-profit organization
- [Tunis Afrique Presse](/source/Tunis_Afrique_Presse), a Tunisian news agency

## Medicine

Conditions:

- [Twin anemia-polycythemia sequence](/source/Twin_anemia-polycythemia_sequence)

Procedures involving fluid removal through a needle:

- [Lumbar puncture](/source/Lumbar_puncture), also known as a *spinal tap*
- [Paracentesis](/source/Paracentesis), also known as an *abdominal tap*
- [Thoracentesis](/source/Thoracentesis) / thoracocentesis, also known as a *pleural tap*

## People

- [Tap Canutt](/source/Tap_Canutt) (1932–2014), American stunt performer and actor
- [Tap Jones](/source/Tap_Jones) (1914–2007), British Royal Air Force air marshal
- [Taps Mugadza](/source/Taps_Mugadza) (born 1988), Zimbabwean singer known by the mononym Taps
- [Taps Miller](/source/Taps_Miller) (1915–?), American entertainer

## Places

- [Tap, Azerbaijan](/source/Tap,_Azerbaijan)
- [Táp](/source/T%C3%A1p), Hungary
- Taps, the German name of [Tapa, Estonia](/source/Tapa,_Estonia)

## Science and technology

### Engineering

- [Tap (valve)](/source/Tap_(valve)), a device for controlling the release of a liquid or gas, e.g. a water faucet - [Beer tap](/source/Beer_tap)
- [Tap (transformer)](/source/Tap_(transformer)), an intermediate point on the winding of an electrical transformer
- [Tap and die](/source/Tap_and_die), tools to create screw threads

### Computing and communications

- [Tap (signal processing)](/source/Tap_(signal_processing)), a delayed impulse response
- [Network tap](/source/Network_tap) (terminal access point), a system that monitors events on a local network
- [Telephone tap](/source/Telephone_tap), a device that monitors phone conversations
- [Vampire tap](/source/Vampire_tap), a method for attaching computer nodes to a network cable
- [Telelocator Alphanumeric Protocol](/source/Telelocator_Alphanumeric_Protocol), a protocol for sending messages to a cellular or pager service
- [Test Anything Protocol](/source/Test_Anything_Protocol), a communication protocol
- [Topfield Application Program](/source/Topfield_Application_Program), a software application for digital TV
- Tap, a [pointing device gesture](/source/Pointing_device_gesture)
- [Test access port](/source/Test_access_port) in JTAG standard
- [Amazon Tap](/source/Amazon_Tap), a portable version of the Amazon Echo voice assistant
- [TUN/TAP](/source/TUN/TAP), virtual network kernel interfaces
- .TAP files, tape images from Commodore 8-bit computers; see [Commodore 64 disk / tape emulation](/source/Commodore_64_disk_/_tape_emulation)
- Transferred Account Procedure data files, see [Roaming](/source/Roaming)
- Task-based asynchronous pattern, Microsoft's term for the [Async/await pattern in C#](/source/Async/await#In_C#)

### Science

- [Tap consonant](/source/Tap_consonant), a type of phonetic sound
- [TAPS (buffer)](/source/TAPS_(buffer)), a chemical compound commonly used to make buffer solutions
- [TET-assisted pyridine borane sequencing](/source/TET-assisted_pyridine_borane_sequencing) (TAPS), laboratory technique for [DNA methylation](/source/DNA_methylation) profiling
- [Tandem affinity purification](/source/Tandem_affinity_purification) (TAP), a technique for studying protein interactions
- [Timor–Alor–Pantar languages](/source/Timor%E2%80%93Alor%E2%80%93Pantar_languages)
- [Transporter associated with antigen processing](/source/Transporter_associated_with_antigen_processing) (TAP), a protein complex
- 2,4,6-triaminopyrimidine (TAP), a candidate primordial genetic base under the [RNA world hypothesis](/source/RNA_world#Prebiotic_RNA_synthesis)
- [Twin anemia-polycythemia sequence](/source/Twin_anemia-polycythemia_sequence) (TAPS), a form of chronic inter-twin transfusion

## Transportation

- [Trans Adriatic Pipeline](/source/Trans_Adriatic_Pipeline) (TAP), a gas pipeline via Greece, Albania and Italy
- [Trans-Alaska Pipeline System](/source/Trans-Alaska_Pipeline_System) (TAPS), a petroleum pipeline across Alaska, United States
- [TAP card](/source/TAP_card), an electronic ticketing payment method in Los Angeles County, California, United States
- [Tapachula International Airport](/source/Tapachula_International_Airport), Chiapas, Mexico, IATA airport code TAP
- [Tai Po Market station](/source/Tai_Po_Market_station), Hong Kong, MTR station code TAP
- [Taplow railway station](/source/Taplow_railway_station), Buckinghamshire, England, National Rail station code TAP

## Other uses

- [Tap code](/source/Tap_code), a simple way to encode text messages on a letter-by-letter basis
- Tap, a method of [contactless payment](/source/Contactless_payment)
- [Tarapur Atomic Power Station](/source/Tarapur_Atomic_Power_Station) (TAPS), Tarapur, Palghar, India
- [Three Apogee orbit](/source/Three_Apogee_orbit) (TAP)
- [Trans Adriatic Pipeline](/source/Trans_Adriatic_Pipeline) (TAP), a gas pipeline
- [Trans-Alaska Pipeline System](/source/Trans-Alaska_Pipeline_System) (TAPS), a crude-oil pipeline
- [Tuition Assistance Program](/source/Tuition_Assistance_Program), New York State, U.S.
- Tap, or [Tab (cuneiform)](/source/Tab_(cuneiform)), a cuneiform sign
- Tap room, in a British [bar](/source/Bar_(establishment))
- [Taps (bugle call)](/source/Taps_(bugle_call))

## See also

- [Tapping (disambiguation)](/source/Tapping_(disambiguation))
- [Tap out (disambiguation)](/source/Tap_out_(disambiguation))
- [Tap tap (disambiguation)](/source/Tap_tap_(disambiguation))
- [Tapa (disambiguation)](/source/Tapa_(disambiguation))

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