Pip

Pip, Pips, Pipp, PIP or PIPS may refer to:

Common meanings

• The seed of some fruits, such as the orange
• Pip (counting), a small but easily countable item, such as the dots on dice
• A decoration worn on a military uniform to denote rank, such as on British Army officer rank insignia
• Greenwich Time Signal, popularly known as the pips

People

• PIP Contestant on Season 2 of NBC's The_Voice_(U.S._season_2)
• one half of the British television writing team Pip and Jane Baker
• Phillipa "Pip" Brown (born 1979), stage name Ladyhawke (musician), New Zealand singer, songwriter and musician
• Pip Carter, British actor
• Pip Karmel (born 1963), Australian film director, editor and screenwriter
• Pip Proud (1947–2010), Australian singer-songwriter, poet, novelist and dramatist
• Pip Pyle (1950-2006), English-born drummer
• Pip Rippon (1888-1950), English footballer
• Pip Simmonds, New Zealand freestyle skier
• Philippa Tattersall (born 1975), only woman to pass the All Arms Commando Course to join the British Royal Marines
• Pip Williams (born 1947), British musician and record producer
• Wally Pipp (1893-1965), Major League Baseball first baseman best known for being replaced by Lou Gehrig
• Pip, nickname of British Army Major General George Philip Bradley Roberts (1906-1997)
• Pip, nickname of British Army Brigadier General Philip Hugh Whitby Hicks (1895-1967)
• Pips, nickname of German fighter ace Josef Priller (1915-1961)
• The backup singers in the musical group Gladys Knight & the Pips
• Scroobius Pip, alias of rapper David Meads

Fictional characters

• Pip (Phillip Pirrip), from Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations
• Pip, in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick
• Peregrin Took, in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy The Lord of the Rings
• Pip, in numerous science fiction novels by Alan Dean Foster
• Pip, part of a diesel engine in The Railway Series of books
• Pip, in the British newspaper strip cartoon Pip, Squeak and Wilfred
• Pip (Chrono Cross)
• Pip the Troll, a Marvel Comics character
• Pip, in the Grailquest gamebook series
• Pip Bernadotte, in the manga Hellsing
• Pip Pirrup, in South Park
• Pip, an Animaniacs character
• Pip, in the Nickelodeon animated show Back at the Barnyard
• Chiana, nicknamed "Pip", in the Australian television series Farscape
• Pip, in the film Enchanted'
• Pip, in the film The Halloween Tree
• Pip, a persona featured on the Tori Amos album American Doll Posse
• Pip Phillips, a character in The Twilight Zone episode " In Praise Of Pip"

Places

• Pip Cliffs, Graham Land, Antarctica
• Pipp Brook, a tributary of the River Mole in Surrey, England
• Pilot Point Airport, an airport with the IATA code "PIP"

Business and finance

• Percentage in point (pip), a currency exchange rate fluctuation
• Performance improvement plan, a management technique
• Personal injury protection, a type of car insurance
• Policy Ineffectiveness Proposition, an economic theory
• Personal Independence Payment, a welfare benefit proposed in 2010 and part of the Welfare Reform Bill 2011 which is to be paid to disabled people in the United Kingdom as a replacement for the Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
• Poly Implant Prothèse, a French firm which made breast implants, involved in a scandal
• PiP Animation Services, a Canadian animation studio

Computing

• Peripheral Interchange Program, a file transfer utility under CP/M
• Point in polygon, a concept in computational geometry
• Policy Information Point, a term used in eXtensible Access Control Markup Language
• Private Internet Protocol
• Pip (Python), a Python package installer
• P.I.P.S. Is POSIX on Symbian, known as P.I.P.S.

Biology and medicine

• Phosphatidylinositol phosphate
• Prolactin-induced protein
• Proximal interphalangeal joints, one of two sets of interphalangeal articulations of hand
• Patient intelligence panel

Science and technology

• Predicted impact point, the location at which a projectile is expected to strike
• Profile ignition pickup, a term in automotive technology
• Proper indecomposable past set, a concept in the study of causal structures of spacetime
• Pakistan Institute of Physics, a physics research institute of the University of Engineering and Technology of Pakistan

Other uses

• "Pip" (South Park), an episode of South Park
• Palisades Interstate Parkway
• Picture-in-picture, a television feature
• Police Information Point, a kiosk run by British police
• Puerto Rican Independence Party, a political party
• Peruvian Investigative Police, plainclothes police unit
• Battle of the Pips, an incident in World War II
• Punjab International Public School, a high school in Pakistan
• Pakistan International Public School and College, a school and college in Pakistan
• Pug Impression Pad, an object used for the census of tigers
• Plastic Irrigation Pipe, a designation for plastic pipe sizes used in agricultural irrigation