Meaning of tapping | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An act of making a light hit or strike against something.
   countable, uncountable
2. listening
3. A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard
   countable, uncountable
4. monitoring
5. The process by which a resource is tapped or exploited.
   countable, uncountable
6. A connection made to some point between the end terminals of a transformer coil or other component.
   countable, uncountable
7. scout
8. third-person singular present indicative

Equivalents

Examples

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

“She has rapid and powerful footwork, but she doesn’t wow you with any special trills or woodpecker tappings.”

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

“The essential feature is that two adjacent transformer tappings are connected to the load simultaneously, each connection having a self-excited transductor in series; […].”

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