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Trap

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A trap is a device used for trapping animals.

Trap or TRAP may also refer to:

Art and entertainment

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Films and television

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Other uses in art and entertainment

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Biology and medicine

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Games

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Places

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Science and technology

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  • Chemical trap, a chemical compound that is used to detect unstable compounds
  • Magnetic trap, the use of magnetic fields to isolate atoms or particles
  • Petroleum trap, a geological structure that forms a petroleum reservoir
  • Social trap, a psychological system where people, operating for short-term individual gains, lead to long-term group losses
  • Trap rock, any dark-colored, fine-grained, non-granitic igneous rock
  • Trap and trace device, records any number called by, or calling, a particular telephone
  • Trap (plumbing), a pipe to prevent the release of gases
  • Trap (printing), a commercial-printing technique to overcome registration problem

Computing

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Sports

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Transportation

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Other uses

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  • Trapdoor
  • Operation Trap, code name of a large-scale Soviet offensive operation against the Mujahideen supply base of Karkari-Sharshari
  • Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel, a U.S. military term for a rescue mission to retrieve a downed aircraft
  • Training-Repayment-Agreement Provision, a part of an employment bond or contract which stipulates that the cost of on-the-job training will be borne by the employee

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