tappings

Noun

tapping (countable and uncountable, plural tappings)

1. 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
2. A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard
3. 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
4. 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 locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 373