Pip

Pip or PIP may refer to:

Biology and medicine

• Phosphatidylinositol phosphate
• Prolactin-induced protein
• Proximal interphalangeal joint
• Patient intelligence panel

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

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
• a Python package installer, Pip (Python)

Fiction, television and film

• Pip, a character from Charles Dicken's novel, Great Expectations.
• Pip, a character in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick.
• Pip (Chrono Cross).
• Pip the Troll, a Marvel Comics character.
• Pip, a character in the Grailquest gamebook series.
• Pip Bernadotte, a character in the manga Hellsing.
• "Pip", an episode of South Park, featuring Pip Pirrup, a character in South Park.
• Pip, an Animaniacs character.
• Pip, a Back at the Barnyard character.
• Chiana, a character in the Australian television series Farscape played by Gigi Edgley, who is nicknamed "Pip" by lead character John Crichton (played by Ben Browder).
• Pip, a character in the film Enchanted'.
• Pip, a character in the film The Halloween Tree (film).
• Pip, a persona featured on the Tori Amos album American Doll Posse.

People

• Pip Williams, British musician and record producer
• Pip Carter, British actor
• The backup singers in the musical group Gladys Knight & the Pips
• Scroobius Pip, alias of rapper David Meads
• Pip Filkins, (aka Prof. kieran Filkins) Professor of alternative dance
• pip trahar,(glencoe S.A.)

Science and technology

• Plastic Irrigation Pipe, a designation for plastic pipe sizes used in agricultural irrigation
• 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
• The seed of some fruits, such as the orange
• Pakistan Institute of Physics - a physics research institute of University of Engineering and Technology of Pakistan.

Other uses

• Pips, small but easily countable items, such as the dots on dice or dominoes or the markings on playing cards
• Palisades Interstate Parkway
• Picture-in-picture, a television feature
• Pilot Point Airport, an airport with the IATA code "PIP"
• Police Information Point, a kiosk run by British police
• Puerto Rican Independence Party, a political party
• Peruvian Investigative Police, plainclothes police unit
• Pug Impression Pad, an object used for the census of tigers
• Greenwich Time Signal
• A decoration worn on a military uniform to denote rank, such as on British Army officer rank insignia
• PIP Scans or poly-contrast interference photography a technique that claims to make the aura of an object visible