tapping
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English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æpɪŋ
Noun
tapping (countable and uncountable, plural tappings)
- An act of making a light hit or strike against something.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 20, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
- As he was speaking there was a soft tapping at the door. I went over and opened it […]
- (music) A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard
- The process by which a resource is tapped or exploited.
- 1938, Paul Burke Jacobs, Harry Paul Newton, Motor Fuels from Farm Products, page 99:
- Competitive tappings of a common oil pool can lead only to waste and overproduction, unless rigidly regulated […]
- (electrical engineering) A connection made to some point between the end terminals of a transformer coil or other component.
- 1962 June, “Talking of Trains: Notable new locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 373:
- The essential feature is that two adjacent transformer tappings are connected to the load simultaneously, each connection having a self-excited transductor in series; […] .
Verb
tapping
- present participle and gerund of tap
Related terms
References
- “tapping”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.