Trap (tactic)
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A trap is a device intended to catch an intruder or prey. "Trap" may also refer to the tactic of catching or harming an adversary. Conversely it may also mean a hindrance for change, being caught in a trap.
Device
- Animal trapping
- Bird trapping
- Booby trap
- Chemical trap, a chemical compound usable for capturing an elusive molecule
- Heligoland trap, a bird trap
- Insect trap
- Man-trap
- Mousetrap
- Penning trap, used to store charged particles
Tactic
- Canary trap, a method for exposing an information leak
- Chess trap, a move intended to induce the opponent to blunder
- Honey trap, a form of sting operation in law enforcement
- Neutral zone trap, a defensive strategy in ice hockey
- Speed trap, a tactic designed to catch speed limit violators, or a place where such a tactic is commonly used
- Trap street, an intentionally incorrectly rendered street on a map
Hindrance
- Sand trap, a type of hazard in golf
- Welfare trap, a phenomenon by which social policies interact to keep people dependent on welfare
- High level equilibrium trap, a concept used to explain why China never underwent an indigenous Industrial Revolution
- Liquidity trap, a concept in economics involving a stagnant economy and low interest rates
- Carrier trap, a type of defect in a semiconductor
