Acrylic tape refers to coated acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive tape, including water-based acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive tape, solvent-based acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive tape, and hot-melt acrylic adhesive tape. Acrylic is actually an English translation of acrylic.

Pressure-sensitive tape has a wide range of materials, all of which have pressure-sensitive properties can be called pressure-sensitive tape, including many large categories, such as rubber, acrylate, silicone, polyurethane and so on. That is to say, pressure-sensitive tape is a large category, acrylic pressure-sensitive tape is only one of its branches.