Tape

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Tape refers to a strip of long, thin and narrow matter, usually rolled up. Most commonly, it refers to:

[edit] Recording media

• Magnetic tape
• Digital Audio Tape (or DAT)
• Digital Compact Cassette (or DCC)
• Digital video tape
• Cassette Tape, a magnetic data/audio storage device
• Videotape, for video storage
• Taping, officially known as "recording", the process of writing on a cassette

[edit] Adhesive tapes

• Pressure sensitive tape, adhesive tape, self-stick tape, including:
  • Gaffers tape
  • Duct tape
  • Masking tape
  • Electrical tape
  • Transparent tape
  • Box sealing tape
  • Surgical tape
  • Double-sided tape
  • Adhesive transfer tape
  • Filament tape or "Strapping tape"
  • Spike tape
  • Hockey tape
  • Tape dispenser
  • Slug tape

• Water activated or gummed tape
  • Gummed paper tape
  • Reinforced gummed tape

• Heat activated tape
• Drywall tape is paper, cloth, or mesh - sometimes with an adhesive

[edit] Other usages

• Tape_drive (Computing)
• The Tape (Kid Capri album)
• Heat tape Trace heating
• Scotch tape, a brand
• Taping, the medical procedure of attaching tape to the body
• Tape measure
• Barbed tape
• Tape head
• Tape dispensers holds tape rolls
• Tape worm
• Tape (film), a 2001 film
• Twill tape, a narrow, sturdy woven fabric used like string
• Red tape, a colloquialism for heavy or undesirable bureaucratic process
• TAPE Inc., is the partner of GMA Network in afternoon dramas and the noontime variety show Eat Bulaga! since 1995.
• Optical celluloid tape used in movie projectors (a possible precursor to the compact disc)
• Tape (pr. (tah-peh), an alternative spelling of tapai, an Indonesian fermented food.

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