Trap
A trap is a device intended to cause harm or capture an intruder.
- Animal trap - designed to capture or kill an animal
- Booby trap - designed as an antipersonnel device that can also be employed against civilians
- In role-playing games, traps may be randomly scattered as obstacles in dungeons.
- In programming, a trap can refer to code designed to capture errors and reveal where they are.
- In networking a bot trap is a script designed to identify and block bots that disobey the restrictions on a server.
- In geology, a trap is a rock formation in which water, salt or hydrocarbons may collect
- a trap can also be a statement or question phrased in such a way that any valid answer or reply would imply something the responder does not intend.
- In computing, a trap is a processor exception.
- In shooting, trap is an activity similar to skeet which involves shooting clay pigeons.
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