Tube

Tube, or Tubes, may refer to:

Construction and mechanics

• Tube (fluid conveyance), a long hollow cylinder used for moving fluids
• Tube (structure), building designed to act like a hollow cylinder, cantilevered perpendicular to the ground
• Inner tube, a component of vehicular tires
• Pneumatic tube, a method of transportation utilising compressed air
• Structural tubing, a type of metal profile used in structural applications

Science and nature

• Eustachian tube, part of the structure of the ear
• Lava tube, found in volcanic regions
• Test tube, a piece of laboratory equipment

Electronics

• Tube (BBC Micro), an expansion bus on the BBC Micro computer
• Cathode ray tube, a component used in display devices such as televisions
• Vacuum tube, a component of electronics

Transportation

• an underground railway constructed in a circular tunnel by the use of a tunnelling shield
• Hudson Tubes, a colloquial historical name for the PATH (rail system)
• The Tube, a widely used name for the London Underground, a rapid transit train system
• Transbay Tube, an underwater rail tube across San Francisco Bay

Mathematics

• Tube domain, in several complex variables
• Tubular neighborhood, in differential geometry
• Cylinder (geometry), from elementary geometry

Film, television, and Internet

• Tube (2003 film), a 2003 Korean film
• Tube, a freeware game for MS-DOS computers from Bullfrog Productions
• Tube (upcoming film), an animated short film
• TUBE., an online magazine about visual and performing arts, founded in 2012 in Sacramento, California
• The Tube (TV series), a music related TV series by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom
• Series of tubes, an analogy for the Internet used by United States Senator Ted Stevens
• "Tubes" (Peter Dale), performer on the Soccer AM television show
• Picture tube, Paint Shop Pro term for a small digital image with no background
• A colloquial term for television (from cathode ray tube)

Music

• Tube (band), a Japanese rock band
• Tube & Berger, the alias of dance/electronica producers Arndt Rörig and Marco Vidovic from Germany
• The Tube Music Network, a music video network that operated between 2006 and 2007
• The Tubes, a San Francisco-based band, popular in the 1970s and 1980s

Other uses

• Tube (container), a type of packaging for pasty and viscous goods such as toothpaste
• Tube (toy), a toy that assists play on water
• Tubing (recreation), riding on an inner tube as a recreational activity
• Extension tube, a tool for macro photography
• Yoplait Tubes or Go-Gurt, a brand of sweetened yogurt
• A type of surf wave

See also

• Pipe (fluid conveyance), a tubular section or hollow cylinder used to convey substances which can flow
• The Tube (disambiguation)
• Microtube (disambiguation)
• Nanotube (disambiguation)
• Tub (disambiguation)
• Tubing (disambiguation)