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 (sound), a sharp and rhythmic sound particularly associated with mechanical clocks and watches Ticking (textile), cotton or linen textile tightly woven for durability Tick mattress, a stuffed mattress made from ticking
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, equivalent to 100 nanoseconds, 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 Tick, a measurement of time equal to 1 fourth of 1 second
See also Tic (disambiguation) Ticket (disambiguation) Tik (disambiguation) Tick tock (disambiguation) Tick fever (disambiguation) Ticking (disambiguation)