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A tick is a parasitic mite of the order Ixodida.

Tick or ticking may also refer to:

• Tick (check mark), a mark (✓, ✔, ☑, etc.) used to indicate 'yes', 'complete' or 'correct'
• Ticking, cotton or linen textile tightly woven for durability

Arts and entertainment

• Tick (character), a spoof comicbook superhero created by Ben Edlund in 1986
  • The Tick (1994 TV series), an animated series on Fox
  • The Tick (2001 TV series), a live-action series on Fox
  • The Tick (2016 TV series), a 2016 series on Amazon Prime
  • The Tick (video game), a 1994 game based on the 1994 TV series
• Ticks (film), a 1993 direct-to-video horror film
• "Ticks" (song), a 2007 single by Brad Paisley
• "Ticking", a song by Elton John from Caribou
• "Tick", a song by Ween from GodWeenSatan: The Oneness

Computing

• Tick, atomic unit used to define system time in computing
• Tick (software), a time tracking software
• Tick, a delay of 1/18 seconds in IPX routing (IPX Rip) used instead of hop counting
• Tick, a computer instruction cycle, which is, in some operating systems, a unit countable by software
• Backtick, by which the character ` is sometimes known in computing

Other uses

• Commodity tick, a unit of measurement of price movement of a stock or other exchange traded asset
• Tick Segerblom (born 1948), an American attorney and politician
• "The Tick", the Magellan Project Science Team's nickname for the first scalloped margin dome found on Venus
• "Buying on tick", buying on credit
• Ticked, isolated regions of pigment in dog coat coloration patterns
• Ticked tabby, a coat pattern of tabby cat fur
• Tick (pejorative), a pejorative used in Germany

See also

• Tic (disambiguation)
• Ticket (disambiguation)
• Tik (disambiguation)
• Tick tock (disambiguation)
• Tick fever (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Tick