tap

tap

(1) In communications, a connection made on a line. For example, a wire tap is the connecting point where a wire to a recording device is attached to the telephone wire for a particular phone line. See transceiver and bridged tap.

(2) (TAP) (Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol) A paging protocol used to transmit up to a thousand 7-bit characters to an alphanumeric pager. Developed in the early 1980s by the Telocator Paging Association, which later became the Personal Communications Industry Association (PCIA), TAP was also known as IXO and PET. TAP is widely used in the U.S. and throughout Europe.

(3) To press a button displayed on a touch-sensitive screen or press a key on a keypad.

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tap

1. a particular quality of alcoholic drink, esp when contained in casks

2. the surgical withdrawal of fluid from a bodily cavity

3. a tool for cutting female screw threads, consisting of a threaded steel cylinder with longitudinal grooves forming cutting edges

4. Electronics chiefly US and Canadian a connection made at some point between the end terminals of an inductor, resistor, or some other component

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tap [tap]

(design engineering)

A plug of accurate thread, form, and dimensions on which cutting edges are formed; it is screwed into a hole to cut an internal thread.

A threaded cone-shaped fishing tool.

(electricity)

A connection made at some point other than the ends of a resistor or coil.

(engineering)

A small, threaded hole drilled into a pipe or process vessel; used as connection points for sampling devices, instruments, or controls.

(metallurgy)

A quantity of molten metal run out from a furnace at one time.

To remove excess slag from the floor of a pot furnace.

(mining engineering)

To intersect with a borehole and withdraw or drain the contained liquid, as water from a water-bearing formation or from underground workings.

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1.		TAP - Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol
2.		tap - hit