An opaque white tape that can be placed against paper and transferred by pressure in order to blank out a mistake; an alternative to correction fluid that does not need time to dry.

(medicine) A colour-coded tape measure used in pediatric emergencies, mapping a child's height and weight to the appropriate equipment sizes, medication dosages, and defibrillation voltages.

Brightly coloured tape used to discourage intrusion into a possibly hazardous area.

plural of tape ball

(countable) A tennis ball wrapped in electrical tape, used in playing street cricket in Asia. / (uncountable) The game of cricket played using such a ball.

(fandom slang) A network for distributing content not aired/distributed locally between enthusiasts and fans of the material, copying on home VCRs and passing new tapes to further nodes of the network.

(computing, historical, informal) A basic form of computer tape that holds unjustified text, and is later processed automatically by a machine that determines where line breaks should appear in the properly formatted output.

Alternative form of gaffer tape

Synonym of mixtape (“non-commercial compilation of songs on tape”)

(computing theory) The infinitely long memory tape on which a Turing machine would operate, consisting of individual cells that can be read or written.