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tail
The tail is the section at the rear end of certain kinds of animals’ bodies; in general, the term refers to a distinct, flexible appendage to the torso. It is the part of the body that corresponds roughly to the sacrum and coccyx in mammals, r ...
is the section at the rear end of an animal's body, a distinct, flexible appendage to the torso.
Tail or tails may also refer to:
Science and technology
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Tails (operating system)
Tails, or The Amnesic Incognito Live System, is a security-focused Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at preserving privacy and anonymity. It connects to the Internet exclusively through the anonymity network Tor. The system is designed to b ...
or The Amnesic Incognito Live System, a Linux distribution designed for anonymity and privacy
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Tail (Unix)
tail is a program available on Unix, Unix-like systems, FreeDOS and MSX-DOS used to display the tail end of a text file or piped data.
Implementations
The version of tail bundled in GNU coreutils was written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Ian La ...
, a Unix program used to display the last few lines of a file
* Tail, one of the extreme ends of a
probability density function
In probability theory, a probability density function (PDF), or density of a continuous random variable, is a function whose value at any given sample (or point) in the sample space (the set of possible values taken by the random variable) can ...
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Terminal amine isotopic labeling of substrates Terminal amine isotopic labeling of substrates (TAILS) is a method in quantitative proteomics that identifies the protein content of samples based on N-terminal fragments of each protein (N-terminal peptides) and detects differences in protein abun ...
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Poly-A tail
Polyadenylation is the addition of a poly(A) tail to an RNA transcript, typically a messenger RNA (mRNA). The poly(A) tail consists of multiple adenosine monophosphates; in other words, it is a stretch of RNA that has only adenine bases. In euka ...
, part of a mature mRNA
Entertainment
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''Tails'' (album), an album by Lisa Loeb
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Tails (''Sonic the Hedgehog''), a character in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' video games and comics
* Tail, a character in the
Kaiketsu Zorori
is a Japanese children's book series created by Yutaka Hara and published by Poplar Publishing. The original books were also made into an OVA, animated feature-length films, anime, and comics.
Synopsis
Set in a parallel worl ...
movie
Other uses
* Tails, the
reverse side of a coin
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Tailcoat
A tailcoat is a knee-length coat characterised by a rear section of the skirt, known as the ''tails'', with the front of the skirt cut away.
The tailcoat shares its historical origins in clothes cut for convenient horse riding in the Early Mode ...
or its rear section, a type of coat/suit used for evening dress
* Tail, the final batsmen in the
batting order for cricket
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Fee tail
In English common law, fee tail or entail is a form of trust established by deed or settlement which restricts the sale or inheritance of an estate in real property and prevents the property from being sold, devised by will, or otherwise alien ...
or tail, an obsolescent term in common law
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Jabot (window)
A jabot , also called cascade or tail, is a vertical pleated piece of window treatment used with festoons or swags along the top of a window on the inside of a building. The usual purpose of a jabot is to hide the seams between individual swags, t ...
, a kind of soft window treatment
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Aircraft tail
The empennage ( or ), also known as the tail or tail assembly, is a structure at the rear of an aircraft that provides stability during flight, in a way similar to the feathers on an arrow.Crane, Dale: ''Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms, third ed ...
, the empennage of an aircraft
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Comet tail
A comet tail—and coma—are features visible in comets when they are illuminated by the Sun and may become visible from Earth when a comet passes through the inner Solar System. As a comet approaches the inner Solar System, solar radiation ca ...
, a visible part of a comet
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Tail recursion
In computer science, a tail call is a subroutine call performed as the final action of a procedure. If the target of a tail is the same subroutine, the subroutine is said to be tail recursive, which is a special case of direct recursion. Tail recur ...
, a type of recursion in computer programming
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Tail rotor
The tail rotor is a smaller rotor mounted vertically or near-vertically at the tail of a traditional single-rotor helicopter, where it rotates to generate a propeller-like horizontal thrust in the same direction as the main rotor's rotation. The ...
, a small vertical propeller mounted at the rear of a helicopter
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Tailing (disambiguation)
Tailing may refer to:
*Tailings, the material left over after the extraction of ore from its host material
*Lamb marking, a process applied in sheep husbandry, typically involving removal of a sheep's tail
*Tailgating, driving on a road too closely ...
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