Tab

Tab

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Tab or tabs may refer to:

*Tabulation: computing evolved from a mechanical basis using cards gradually between the 1940s and 1990s to a completely electronic basis. The card based systems and components such as sorters and card readers and punches were called "Tab".
*The tab key, on a computer keyboard, automates indenting text to a preset position. The tab key is commonly used for indentation in word processors and other software.
*Tab (archery), the small piece of protective covering to protect the fingers when practicing
*Tab (debating), the table of the results of a debating competition
*Tab (soft drink), a beverage produced by the Coca-Cola company
*"Tab" (album), by Monster Magnet
*Tabs (stage), in theatre, the term for the curtain at the front of the stage
*Tablature, a form of musical notation used particularly for guitars and other fretted instruments
*Tâb, a board game played in Egypt and elsewhere
*Chicago tab, in organizing, a protruding piece of a planar surface that provides an index mark.
*Tab Ramos, an American soccer player
*Tab Hunter, an American actor and musician
*TABS, Thermal Activated Building System.

In software

*Tab (GUI), a visual marker in a computer application, similar to Chicago tabs (above)
* Tabbed document interface ("tabbed browsing"), in a web browser, tabs divide open pages displayed in a single window
*Tabs (software), a 3D CAD tool, originally for Acorn Archimedes computers

In publishing

*"Tab", abbreviation of tabloid, a small newspaper format
*Tab, a comic strip format
*Tab Communications, a former newspaper publisher in Massachusetts, or one of its papers

In slang

* Bill (payment), informally
* In British English, a colloquialism for cigarette
* In British Military English, a colloquialism for a forced march, from Tactical Advance to Battle
* In East Midlands English, a slang term for ear
*"Tabs", abbreviation for "tablets", slang for the drug MDMA, or Ecstasy
* In British English, a term referring to Cambridge University students, used primordially by members of Oxford University

Places

*Tab, Hungary, town in Somogy County, Hungary, near Lake Balaton
*Tab, Indiana, village in Warren County, Indiana, USA

ee also

*TAB
*Taba

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