Tab, TAB, tabs, or TABS may refer to:

Places

Tab, Hungary Tab () is a town in Somogy County, Hungary, and the seat of Tab District. It is situated approximately 175 km South West of Budapest and 22 km from Lake Balaton. History Tab was first mentioned as ''villa Thob'' in an official document ...

, a town *

Tab District Tab () is a district in north-eastern part of Somogy County, in Hungary. ''Tab, Hungary, Tab'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia, Southern Transdanubia Statistical Re ...

, Hungary, whose seat is Tab * Tab, Indiana, United States, an unincorporated community * Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson International Airport, Tobago, IATA code TAB * Tame Bridge Parkway railway station, station code TAB

People

Tab (given name) Tab is a given name. As a name for females, it may be a shortening of Tabitha. Males known as "Tab" include: * Tab Baker (1959–2010), American actor * Tab Baldwin (born 1958), American-New Zealand basketball coach * Tab Benoit (born 1967), Ameri ...

* DJ Tab (born 1987), American hip hop DJ, record producer, and entrepreneur *

Mohammad Aram Tab Mohammad Amin Aram Tab (; born 7 February 1985) is an Iranian former football defender. Club career Aram Tab joined Saba Qom in 2012 after spending the previous year at Aluminium Hormozgan. Honours Club ;Aluminium Hormozgan *Azadegan Leag ...

(born 1985), Iranian footballer

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

* ''Tab'' (album), by US band Monster Magnet * Tab or

tablature Tablature (or tab for short) is a form of musical notation indicating instrument fingering or the location of the played notes rather than musical pitches. Tablature is common for fretted stringed instruments such as the guitar, lute or vihuel ...

, fingering-based musical notation, esp. for fretted instruments (e.g., guitars) * Trey Anastasio (band), an unnamed band, 1999–2004 *

Trey Anastasio Band Trey Anastasio Band, or TAB, is an American rock band led by singer-songwriter and guitarist Trey Anastasio of Phish. The band has existed in several permutations since 1998. Versions of the band have had different members, and briefly used th ...

, formerly 70 Volt Parade, 2006 * Dead Boots, a musical group originally known as "TAB the Band" * "Tabs" a song by Lights from ''Skin & Earth Acoustic''

Publishing formats

* Tab, a comic strip format * Tab, a

tabloid (newspaper format) A tabloid is a newspaper format characterized by its compact size, smaller than a broadsheet. The term originates from the 19th century, when the London-based pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, Burroughs Wellcome & Co. used the term to de ...

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

The Australian Ballet The Australian Ballet (TAB) is the largest classical ballet company in Australia. It was founded by J. C. Williamson Theatres Ltd and the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust in 1962, with the English-born dancer, teacher, repetiteur a ...

, an Australian ballet company * Tab, a character from ''

Jet Set Radio (originally released in North America as ''Jet Grind Radio'') is a 2000 action game developed by Smilebit and published by Sega for the Dreamcast. The player controls a member of a youth gang, the GG's, as they use inline skates to traverse ...

'' * ''

The Tab ''The Tab'' is a youth news and entertainment site, published by Digitalbox Plc. It was launched at the University of Cambridge and has since expanded to over 20 universities in the United Kingdom. Now it is better known as a voice-driven pop ...

'', a youth news site published by Tab Media Ltd. * ''

Tâb Tâb () is the name of a running-fight board game played in several Muslim (mostly Arab) countries, and a family of similar board games played in North Africa (as ''sîg'') and West Asia, from Iran to West Africa and from Turkey to Somalia, wher ...

'', a board game * Tab Communications, a newspaper publisher *

Tabs (stage) Theater drapes and stage curtains are large pieces of cloth that are designed to mask backstage areas of a theater from spectators. They are designed for a variety of specific purposes, moving in different ways (if at all) and constructed from v ...

, a theatre curtain at front of stage * ''

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator ''Totally Accurate Battle Simulator'' (''TABS'') is a physics-based strategy video game developed and published by Landfall Games. An alpha version of the game was initially released in 2016 to a small audience. The game was released for macOS ...

(TABS)'', a battle simulation video game

Aviation

Servo tab A servo tab is a small hinged device installed on an aircraft control surface to assist the movement of the Flight control surfaces, control surfaces. Introduced by the German firm Flettner, servo tabs were formerly known as Flettner tabs. Ser ...

, for moving an airplane's control surface with a small input force *

Trim tab Trim tabs are small surfaces connected to the trailing edge of a larger Flight control surfaces, control surface on a boat or aircraft, used to control the trim of the controls, i.e. to counteract hydro- or aerodynamic forces and stabilise the ...

, for adjusting the hands-free position of an airplane's control surface

Brands and enterprises

Tab (drink) Tab (stylized as TaB) was a diet soda, diet cola soft drink produced and distributed by the Coca-Cola Company, introduced in 1963 and discontinued in 2020. The company's first diet drink, Tab was popular among some people throughout the 1960s a ...

, a diet cola soft drink brand *

Samsung Galaxy Tab The Samsung Galaxy Tab (stylized as SΛMSUNG Galaxy Tab) is a line of Android OS tablet computers produced by Samsung Electronics. The first model was the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2010 with 7-inch display, which was presented to the public on 2 Sep ...

, a tablet computer *

Technical advisory board An advisory board is a body that provides non-binding strategic advice to the management of a corporation, organization, or foundation. The informal nature of an advisory board gives greater flexibility in structure and management compared to the ...

Totalisator Agency Board The Totalisator Agency Board, universally shortened to TAB or T.A.B., is the name given to monopoly Tote board, totalisator organisations in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. They operate betting shops and Online gambling, online betting ...

, organisation that runs betting agencies in Australia and New Zealand *

Transportes Aéreos Bolivianos Transportes Aéreos Bolivianos (abbreviated ''TAB'' and also known as TAB Airlines or TAB Cargo) is a cargo airline which operates civil cargo flights between Bolivia and the United States. History TAB was set up in 1977 as a sub-division of the ...

, a cargo airline *

Travis Association for the Blind Travis Association for the Blind, also known as the Austin Lighthouse, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization employing over 400 Texans of which approximately 200 are legally blind in four facilities in southeast Austin, Texas, as well as a facil ...

, Austin, Texas

Computing and technology

Tab (interface) In interface design, a tab is a graphical user interface object that allows multiple documents or panels to be contained within a single window, using tabs as a navigational widget for switching between sets of documents. It is an interface s ...

, a visual marker in a computer application * .tab, a file-name extension for

tab-separated values Tab-separated values (TSV) is a simple, text-based file format for storing tabular data. Records are separated by newlines, and values within a record are separated by tab characters. The TSV format is thus a delimiter-separated values format, ...

* IE Tab, an extension for some web browsers * MapInfo TAB format, a geospatial vector data format *

Tab key The tab key (abbreviation of tabulator key or tabular key) on a keyboard is used to advance the cursor to the next tab stop. History The word ''tab'' derives from the word ''tabulate'', which means "to arrange data in a tabular, or table, ...

(↹), on a keyboard *

Tab character Tab, TAB, tabs, or TABS may refer to: Places * Tab, Hungary, a town * Tab District, Hungary, whose seat is Tab * Tab, Indiana, United States, an unincorporated community * Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson International Airport, Tobago, IATA c ...

, a whitespace character inserted by the tab key

Other uses

Tab (archery) In archery, a finger tab or archer tab is a small leather or synthetic patch that protects an archer's fingers from the bowstring. It is strapped or otherwise attached to an archer's hand. In summertime, tabs are far more comfortable than glove ...

, 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 Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format that features a fixed number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than for a round-robin tournament; thus each competitor (team or individual) does not play all the other ...

, a modified form of Swiss tournament * Tab, a Cantabrigian person * TAB or Tab, the abbreviation in medicine and pharmacy for a medication given in tablet form * Tab, an indicator on a

file folder A file folder (or simply folder) is a kind of folder that holds papers together for organization and protection. File folders usually consist of a sheet of heavy paper stock or other thin, but stiff, material which is folded in half, and are ...

* Tab, a loaded march in the British Army * or Tabula, location of hand relative to rest of body, as a component of a sign-language sign *

Beverage can A drink can (or beverage can) is a metal container with a polymer interior designed to hold a fixed portion of liquid such as carbonated soft drinks, alcoholic drinks, fruit juices, teas, herbal teas, energy drinks, etc. Drink cans exterior ...

tab, a built-in miniature lever for unsealing *

Tab stop A tab stop on a typewriter is a location where the carriage movement is halted by an adjustable end stop. Tab stops are set manually, and pressing the tab key causes the carriage to go to the next tab stop. In text editors on a computer, the sam ...

, where typewriter carriage movement is halted by an adjustable end stop *

Tabs of the United States Army In the United States Army, tabs are cloth and/or metal arches that are worn on U.S. Army uniforms, displaying a word or words signifying a special skill. On the Army Combat Uniform and Army Service Uniform, the tabs are worn above a unit's shoul ...

, which denote skills *

TAB (armoured personnel carrier) TAB (Romanian language, Romanian: Transportor Amfibiu Blindat, translated ''Amphibious Armoured Personnel Carrier'') is the Romanian military designation of armoured personnel carriers. The TAB APCs were based on the Russian BTR (vehicle), BTR serie ...

, a Romanian amphibious vehicle * Tactical Advance to Battle, a British Army term for a loaded march *

Tape-automated bonding Tape-automated bonding (TAB) is a process that places bare semiconductor chips (dies) like integrated circuits onto a flexible circuit board (FPC) by attaching them to fine conductors in a polyamide or polyimide (like trade names Kapton or UPILE ...

, in electronics * Testing, adjusting, balancing, of HVAC systems *

Treehouse attachment bolt Treehouse attachment bolts or TABs are specialized bolts engineered for tree house, treehouse construction.Globe Pequot, "Knack Treehouses: A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing and Building a Safe and Sound Structure", 2010, p. 66/ref> Various mode ...

* Tyabb railway station, Melbourne * A restaurant bill or

invoice An invoice, bill, tab, or bill of costs is a commercial document that includes an itemized list of goods or services furnished by a seller to a buyer relating to a sale transaction, that usually specifies the price and terms of sale, quanti ...

, shortening of "tabulation" * Tabcorp, an Australian sports betting company