Ping (disambiguation)
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Ping is a computer network tool used to test whether a particular host is reachable across an IP network.
Pinging is the noise indicative of improper combustion (detonation rather than deflagration) in internal combustion engines.
Ping may also refer to:
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[edit] Technology
- Ping, a pulse of sound in active sonar
- iTunes Ping, a social network for music built into Apple iTunes
- Ping (blogging), used for blogs, RSS, and related web services
- PING (Partimage Is Not Ghost)), software for disk cloning or backup
- "Ping" is the proper pronunciation of PNG, short for Portable Network Graphics, a bitmap image format
[edit] People
- Panfilo Morena "Ping" Lacson (born 1948), Filipino politician and current member of the Philippine Senate
[edit] 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 Fa 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
[edit] Other
- 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)
[edit] 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"
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