tapping

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

Noun

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 […] - 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC:
- She has rapid and powerful footwork, but she doesn’t wow you with any special trills or woodpecker tappings. - 2009 June 26, Alastair Macaulay, “Leading the Audience Into Flamenco’s Heart”, in New York Times:
A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard
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 […] - 1938, Paul Burke Jacobs, Harry Paul Newton, Motor Fuels from Farm Products, page 99:
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; […]. - 1962 June, “Talking of Trains: Notable new...