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Vinony

tapping

noun

  1. guitar playing technique
  2. act or process of calling upon
  3. act or process of hitting lightly, making a small sound
  4. act or process of accessing, as a phone or water tap
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Wiktionary

noun

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

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

    “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.

    “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. present participle and gerund of tap