Tube
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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)
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