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TAB

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This article is about ambiguous uses of "tab" or "TAB" as a word or abbreviated version of a term. For "TAB" as an initialism, see TAB (disambiguation).

Tab or tabs may refer to:

Places

People

  • Tab (given name)
  • DJ Tab (born 1987), American hip hop DJ, record producer, and entrepreneur
  • Mohammad Aram Tab (born 1985), Iranian footballer

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

  • Tab (album), by US band Monster Magnet
  • Tab or tablature, fingering-based musical notation, esp. for fretted instruments (e.g., guitars)

Publishing formats

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Tâb, a board game
  • Tab Communications, a newspaper publisher
    • Tab, 14 free weekly newspapers published by Tab Communications
  • Tabs (stage), a theatre curtain at front of stage
  • Totally Accurate Battle Simulator (TABS), a battle simulation video game
  • The Tab, a youth news site published by Tab Media Ltd.

Aviation

  • Servo tab, for moving an airplane's control surface with a small input force
  • Trim tab, for adjusting the hands-free position of an airplane's control surface

Brands and enterprises

  • Tab (drink), a diet cola soft drink brand
  • Samsung Galaxy Tab, a tablet computer

Computing and technology

  • Tab (interface), a visual marker in a computer application
  • .tab, a file-name extension for tab-separated values
  • IE Tab, an extension for some web browsers
  • MapInfo TAB format, a geospatial vector data format
  • Tab key, on a keyboard
  • Tab character, a whitespace character inserted by the tab key

Other uses

  • Tab (archery), a small protective covering for the fingers
  • Tab (cuneiform), a common use sign in the Amarna letters and the Epic of Gilgamesh
  • Tab (debating), a modified form of Swiss tournament
  • Tab, a Cantabrigian person
  • Tab, an indicator on a file folder
  • Tab, a loaded march in the British Army
  • TAB or Tabula, location of hand relative to rest of body, as a component of a sign-language sign
  • Beverage can tab, a built-in miniature lever for unsealing
  • Tab stop, where typewriter carriage movement is halted by an adjustable end stop
  • Tabs of the United States Army, which denote skills

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Tab
  • All pages with titles containing Tab
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