Tack

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Tack may refer to:

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People

=Given name or nickname=

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Implements, and creative or constructive tasks and materials

Sailing

  • A tack as a part of the tacking maneuver; in which a sailing boat turns its bow through the wind
  • Tack (sailing), the lower corner of a sail's leading edge
  • Tack (square sail), a type of rigging unique to square sails

Other uses

  • Hardtack, a hard cracker or biscuit used for food on sea voyages and by soldiers during the American Civil War.
  • Scottish lease, as held by a tacksman
  • Tack, another name for stickiness in chemistry
  • The Tack, a parliamentary maneuver supported by Tackers in 1704
  • The grand tack hypothesis on the origin of the structure of the Solar System
  • "TACK", a proposed archaeal taxon, presumably a sister taxon of hypothetical "Asgard" taxon within the "Proteoarchaeota" kingdom; now renamed to Thermoproteati
  • TACK, a proposed network security standard co-created by Moxie Marlinspike
  • Any of the four symbols
  • right tack \vdash
  • down tack \top
  • up tack \bot
  • left tack \dashv

See also