tapping — Dizionario inglese

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1. An act of making a light hit or strike against something.

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   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.

2. A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard

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3. The process by which a resource is tapped or exploited.

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

4. A connection made to some point between the end terminals of a transformer coil or other component.

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   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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1. the sound of light blow or knock

   Termini più generali

   sound

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   he heard the tapping of the man's cane