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Three rolls of gaffers tape.

Tape refers to a strip of long, thin matter, usually rolled up. Most commonly, it refers to:

Recording media

• Magnetic tape
• Cassette Tape, a magnetic data/audio storage device
• Digital Audio Tape (or DAT)
• Digital Compact Cassette (or DCC)
• Digital video tape
• Videotape, for video storage
• Taping, officially known as "recording", the process of writing on a cassette

Adhesive tapes

• Water activated tape, gummed tape, see adhesive tape
• Pressure sensitive tape, adhesive tape, self-stick tape, including:
  • Box sealing tape
  • Double-sided tape
  • Duct tape
  • Masking tape
  • Electrical tape
  • Filament tape
  • Gaffers tape
  • Hockey tape
  • Medical tape
  • Scotch tape
  • Surgical tape
  • spike (stagecraft)
  • Tape dispenser
  • Slug tape
• Drywall tape is paper, cloth, or mesh - sometimes with an adhesive

Non-Adhesive Tape

• Tape measure
• Flagging (tape)
• Twill tape, a narrow, sturdy woven fabric used like string
• Optical celluloid tape used in movie projectors
• Heat tape Trace heating

Other usages

• Tape drive (Computing)
• Scotch tape, a brand
• Taping, the medical procedure of attaching tape to the body
• Barbed tape
• Tape head
• Tape dispensers holds tape rolls
• Tape worm
• Tape (film), a 2001 movie
• Red tape, a colloquialism for heavy or undesirable bureaucratic process
• TAPE Inc., is the partner of GMA Network in afternoon dramas and the noontime variety show Eat Bulaga! since 1995.
• Tape (pr. (tah-peh), an alternative spelling of tapai, an Indonesian fermented food.
• The Tape (Kid Capri album)

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