Tick (disambiguation)
# Tick (disambiguation)

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
