Tamper can mean: - A device used for tamping, commonly to prepare ground coffee beans to make espresso.
- A ballast tamper, a machine that tamps railroad track ballast, invented by Sir John Scott.
- In nuclear weapon design, either a shell surrounding the fission core and keeping the nuclear material assembled during the explosion for longer time, raising yield, or the outermost layer of a "secondary" thermonuclear component.
- A tool with a long handle and a flat metal head, used in a "stomping" type motion to flatten ground, gravel or other type of materials, for gardening or landscaping tasks. See also Spud bar.
- To make unauthorised alterations to something. Products can be made tamper-evident to protect against tampering.
- Tamper detection: the automatic determination by a module that an attempt has been made to compromise the physical security.
- Tamper evidence: the external indication that an attempt has been made to compromise the physical security of a module.
- Tamper response: the automatic action taken by a module when a tamper attempt has been detected.
- Tamper tape: tape or sticker often logoed placed over a seem or screw to show physical security has been breached when tape is broken on the module.
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