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noun
- The twentieth letter of the Appendix:Roman script, English alphabet, preceded by S and followed by U.
abbreviation
- (ratings) teen
- (finance) taxable
- Tuesday
- (stock symbol) AT&T
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noun
- A device used to dispense liquids.
- We don't have bottled water, you'll have to get it from the .
- A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die.)
- We drilled a hole and then cut the threads with the proper to match the valve's thread.
- A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.
- The system was barely keeping pressure due to all of the ill advised taps along its length.
verb (tapp, ing)
- To furnish with taps.
- on tap: To have something available; to open (a keg) with a .
- We have draft beer on tap.
- To access a resource or object.
- When he ran out of money, he decided to into his trust fund.
- To draw off liquid from a vessel
- He tapped a new barrel of beer.
- To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection
- They can't the phone without a warrant.
- To intercept a communication without authority.
- He was known to Cable TV and satellite dishes.
- (context, mechanical) To cut an internal screw thread.
- Tap an M3 thread all the way through the hole.
- (slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- I would tap that hot girl over there. or, more informally, I'd tap that
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noun
- psychological, Psychological state of being tense.
- Condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other
- (physics) (engineering) State of an elastic object which is stretched in a way which increases its length.
- (physics) voltage, Voltage. Usually only the terms low tension, high tension, and extra-high tension, and the abbreviations LT, HT, and EHT are used. They are not precisely defined; LT is normally a few volts, HT a few hundreds of volts, and EHT thousands of volts.
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noun
- In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic inductivity. Symbol: T
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noun - (mathematics) A time, characteristic of many exponential functions, required for a physical quantity to rise from zero to a steady-state value
- (physics) The time required for a voltage or current to rise to about 63% of its maximum value; equal to the circuit's inductance divided by its resistance
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noun - Something which is transient.
- (physics) A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
- (italbrac, audio) A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform which occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.
- A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker
- An unhoused person
adjective
- Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.
- Remaining for only a brief time.
- (physics) decay, Decaying with time, especially exponentially.
- Occasional; isolated; one-off; individual.
- Passing through; passing from one person to another.
- (philosophy) Operating beyond itself; having an external effect (antonym: immanent).
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