: the act, process, or means by which something is tapped
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Sleet is the type of precipitation that makes a tapping or pinging sound.
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Grant Gilmore, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
The restaurant hosts its second-ever NYE keg-tapping.
—Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 Dec. 2025
Vani Rajendran and colleagues investigated whether macaques trained to synchronize their taps with metronome beats could extend their metronome-tapping skills to real music in all its acoustic complexity.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 29 Nov. 2025
Indeed, ghost tapping is the newest evolution of longstanding card scam fraud.
—Paolo Dal Cin, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2025
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Grant Gilmore, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
The restaurant hosts its second-ever NYE keg-tapping.
—Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 Dec. 2025
Vani Rajendran and colleagues investigated whether macaques trained to synchronize their taps with metronome beats could extend their metronome-tapping skills to real music in all its acoustic complexity.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 29 Nov. 2025
Indeed, ghost tapping is the newest evolution of longstanding card scam fraud.
—Paolo Dal Cin, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2025
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“Tapping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tapping. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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