Tail (disambiguation)

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A tail 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

  • Tail (books), a part of a book
  • Tails (operating system) or The Amnesic Incognito Live System, a Linux distribution designed for anonymity and privacy
  • Tail (Unix), a Unix program used to display the last few lines of a file
  • Tail, one of the extreme ends of a probability density function
  • Terminal amine isotopic labeling of substrates
  • Poly-A tail, part of a mature mRNA

Entertainment

  • Tails (album), an album by Lisa Loeb
  • Tails (Sonic the Hedgehog), a character in the Sonic the Hedgehog video games and comics
  • Tail, an item in The Paper Mario series
  • Tail, a character in the Kaiketsu Zorori movie

Other uses

  • Tails, the reverse side of a coin
  • Tailcoat or its rear section, a type of coat/suit used for evening dress
  • Tail, the final batsmen in the batting order for cricket
  • Fee tail or tail, an obsolescent term in common law
  • Jabot (window), a kind of soft window treatment

See also

  • Aircraft tail, the empennage of an aircraft
  • Comet tail, a visible part of a comet
  • Tail recursion, a type of recursion in computer programming
  • Tail rotor, a small vertical propeller mounted at the rear of a helicopter
  • Tailing (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with Tail
  • All pages with titles containing Tail
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