Tip

In the English language, tip may refer to:

• (Worldwide): a gratuity (a voluntary additional payment made for services rendered)

• (UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand): a place for disposal of domestic waste; a landfill

Tip may also refer to:

In science and technology

• TIP, a Terminal Interface Processor used to provide terminal sessions on ARPANET
• Tip (Unix utility), a software program for remote terminal sessions
• Tip and ring, two wires in a telephone line
• The Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, a work containing taxonomies of invertebrate fossils
• Traveling In-core Probe, used in nuclear reactors
• The tip, the most recently added changeset in the distributed revision control tool Mercurial
• TIP, name of early prototypes of the text editor program nano
• MasterCard's Terminal Integration Process (TIP)

In entertainment media

• The Tip, a 1918 film starring Harold Lloyd
• Tip (album), a 1997 album by the band Finger Eleven
• T.I.P. (album), a 2005 album by rapper Young Buck
• Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise, a video game
• T.I.P., also known as T.I., a rapper
• Princess Ozma, nicknamed Tip, a fictional character in the book The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Tip, a FIFA World Cup mascot in 1974
• T.I.P. Crew, a South Korean b-boy crew
• TIP, Threat Image Projection, a technology used in X-ray screening machines.

Other uses

• Hat tip, an expression of recognition or gratitude
• iShares (stock symbol TIP), Barclays TIPS Bond, an exchange-traded fund
• T.I.P., stands for Thumb, Index, Pinky, which are the three fingers that are held up to show "I Love You" in sign language.
• Square dance tip, a group of dances in square dancing
• Tag (game), an informal playground game involving chasing and touching
• Talent Identification Program, a gifted education program at Duke University
• Technological Institute of the Philippines, a school in the Philippines
• Terminal indecomposable past set in the study of causal structures of spacetime
• Tip (gambling), a betting information source
• Tipping face, the active part of a landfill
• Tippu Tip, notorious 19th century slave dealer
• The IATA airport code for Tripoli International Airport
• Trafficking in persons, otherwise known as human trafficking
• Typhoon Tip, the largest and most intense tropical cyclone on record
• TIP, Titre Interbancaire de Paiement

See also

• Tipping (disambiguation)
• Tipping point (disambiguation)