Taper may refer to:
- Fishing rod tapers, a measure of the flexibility of a fishing rod
- In geometry, or in the casual description of a shaper or object, a gradual thinning or narrowing towards one end
- Machine taper, in machinery and engineering
- Mark Taper Forum, a theatre in the Los Angeles Music Center
- A ratio used in aeronautics (see Chord (aircraft))
- A thin candle is called a taper
- Philadelphia Tapers (also New York Tapers and Washington Tapers), a defunct professional basketball team
- Taper (cymbal), the reduction in thickness of a cymbal from center to rim
- Taper pin, used in body piercing and manufacturing
- Tapering (sports), a period of rest before competition
- A misspelling of Tapir, a large, pig-like mammal with a prehensile snout
Taper as a surname:
Fishing rod tapers describe how much a fishing rod bends or flexes under pressure Geometry ( Greek γεωμετρία; geo = earth metria = measure is a part of Mathematics concerned with questions of size shape and relative position A machine taper is a system for securing cutting bits and other accessories to a machine tool's powered rotating spindle The Mark Taper Forum is a 739 seat Thrust stage at the Los Angeles Music Center built by Welton Becket and Associates A ratio is an expression which compares quantities relative to each other Aeronautics (from Greek aero which means air or sky and nautis which means sailor i In reference to Aircraft, chord refers to the distance between the leading edge and trailing edge of a Wing, Horizontal stabilizer or Vertical stabilizer A candle is a Light source and sometimes a Heat source consisting of a solid block of Fuel and an embedded wick. The Philadelphia Tapers were originally the New York Tapers an NABL club team sponsored by the Tuck Tape Company. In Cymbal making, taper refers to the gradual change in thickness from the bell to the rim of the Cymbal. A Taper pin is a fastener used in mechanical engineering They are steel rods with one end having a slightly larger diameter than the other Tapirs (ˈteɪpɚ as in "taper" or /təˈpɪər/ as "ta-pier" are large browsing Mammals, roughly pig-like in shape with short Louise Taper is a historian and collector of Abraham Lincoln artifacts S (Sydney Mark Taper (1902 - December 16, 1994 was a real estate developer financier and Philanthropist in Southern California
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