Ping

Ping may refer to:

Technology

• Ping (networking utility), a computer network tool used to test whether a particular host is reachable across an IP network
• Ping, a pulse of sound in active sonar
• iTunes Ping, a social network for music that was once built into Apple iTunes
• Ping (blogging), used for blogs, RSS, and related web services
• PING (software), software for disk cloning or backup
• "Ping" is a pronunciation of PNG, short for Portable Network Graphics, a bitmap image format

People

• Jean Ping (born 1942), Gabonese diplomat and Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union
• Nimrod Ping (1947–2006), politician in Brighton, England
• Panfilo Morena "Ping" Lacson (born 1948), Filipino politician and current member of the Philippine Senate

Fictional characters

• Ping, a domesticated Chinese duck lost on the Yangtze River, whose story is told in the illustrated book The Story about Ping first published in 1933
• Ping, a minor character in Seinfeld, an NBC sitcom
• Ping, a character in the webcomic Megatokyo
• Ping, the disguised identity of Hua Mulan in the animated film Mulan
• Ping the Elastic Man, a comic strip character introduced in The Beano in 1938
• "The machine that goes Ping!", a fictitious obstetric medical device featured in the film Monty Python's Meaning of Life
• Mr. Ping, a character in the film Kung Fu Panda
• Professor Ping, a character in the film Barbarella

Other

• Pinging, the noise indicative of improper combustion (detonation rather than deflagration) in internal combustion engines
• Ping, (Traditional Chinese Character: 坪), a Taiwanese measure of area
• Ping, an ability in the trading card game Magic: The Gathering
• Ping project, a European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet) mean to evaluate network efficiency
• Ping River, a river in Thailand
• Ping (golf), a brand of golf club
• Ping (short story), a short story by Samuel Beckett
• Ping, an insulin pump model from Animas Corporation
• Ping (video gaming), slang for the network latency seen between a game player's computer and the game server (or another player)

See also

• Pinghua, a Chinese dialect
• Ping.fm, a microblog social network
• Table tennis, a racquet sport also known as "Ping Pong"
• Pong, a video game simulating table tennis
• All pages beginning with "Ping"
• All pages with titles containing "Ping"