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Tapping

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    An act of making a light hit or strike against something. countable, uncountable

    "As he was speaking there was a soft tapping at the door. I went over and opened it […]"

  2. 2
    the sound of light blow or knock wordnet
  3. 3
    A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    The process by which a resource is tapped or exploited. countable, uncountable

    "Competitive tappings of a common oil pool can lead only to waste and overproduction, unless rigidly regulated […]"

  5. 5
    A connection made to some point between the end terminals of a transformer coil or other component. countable, uncountable

    "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
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of tap form-of, gerund, participle, present

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