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tapping | x |

As a noun tapping

is an act of making a light hit or strike against something.

As a verb tapping

is .

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

tapping

English

Noun

(wikipedia tapping) (en noun)
  • An act of making a light hit or strike against something.
  • *1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 20
  • *:As he was speaking there was a soft tapping at the door. I went over and opened it...
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 26, author=Alastair Macaulay, title=Leading the Audience Into Flamenco’s Heart, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=She has rapid and powerful footwork, but she doesn’t wow you with any special trills or woodpecker tappings . }}
  • (music) A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard

    • Verb

    (head)

    • x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----