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Tab may refer to:

  • In web browsers, tabs divide open web pages in one browser.
  • The tab key, used to indent text to a preset horizontal position.
  • In organizing, a short form of Chicago tab, a protruding piece of card or paper that provides an index mark in a paper or card file,
    • Tab (GUI) is a similar visual marker in computer applications.
  • In hospitality and other contexts where payment is due, a synonym for the bill ("he picked up the tab").
  • short for the tabloid newspaper format, the size of the New York Daily News and other big city papers. A tabloid newspaper is roughly 11 inches wide and 14 inches high.
  • Tab Ramos, former American soccer player.
  • tab (comic strip), the size of a Sunday strip carried in a tabloid newspaper. Tab strips are often preferred by collectors of such strips as Dick Tracy and Little Orphan Annie.
  • Tablature, a form of musical notation used particularly for guitars and other fretted instruments.
  • Tab (archery), the small piece of protective covering to protect the fingers when practicing.
  • Tab (soft drink), the first brand of diet soda produced by the Coca Cola company.
  • Tabs (stage), in theatre, the term for the curtain at the front of the stage.
  • Tab, Hungary, a town in Somogy County, Hungary, near Lake Balaton.
  • Tab, Indiana, a small village in Warren County, Indiana, United States.
  • In British English, a colloquialism for cigarette.
  • Tab (slang), a half-affectionate derogatory term used by students of Oxford University to refer to students of the University of Cambridge
  • Tab (album), an EP by Monster Magnet.
  • Tâb, a board game played in Egypt and elsewhere.
  • Tab (debating), the table of the results of a debating competition.
    • The program which produces the Tab

  • Tabs (Software), A 3D CAD software tool, orignally on the Acorn Archimedies computer.
  • MDMA - slang for Ecstasy tablets.

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