Ping
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Ping may refer to:
Technology[edit]
- Ping, a pulse of sound in active sonar
- Ping (networking utility), a computer network monitoring tool
- Echo Request message in Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
- 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), used for disk cloning or backup
People[edit]
- Ping (surname) (平), a Chinese surname
- Bing (Chinese surname) (邴), romanized Ping in Wade–Giles
- Ping (given name)
- Jean Ping (born 1942), Gabonese diplomat and Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union
- Nimrod Ping (1947–2006), politician in Brighton, England
- Frank Steven Ping Bodie (1887–1961), Major League Baseball player
- Panfilo Morena "Ping" Lacson (born 1948), Filipino politician and current member of the Philippine Senate
Fictional characters[edit]
- Ping, a domesticated Chinese duck 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 Kung Fu Panda franchise
- Professor Ping, a character in the film Barbarella
Other[edit]
- Pinging, the noise indicative of improper combustion in internal combustion engines
- Ping (Chinese: 坪), a Taiwanese measure of area
- Ping, an ability in the trading card game Magic: The Gathering
- Ping project, a project of the European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet)
- Ping, Washington, a community in the United States
- Ping River, a river in Thailand
- Ping (golf), a manufacturer and brand name of golf equipment
- "Ping" (short story), by Samuel Beckett
- Ping (video gaming), the network latency between computers used in online gaming.
- Ping (bing), a type of Chinese flat bread
- Ping!, a 2000 film featuring Shirley Jones
See also[edit]
- Pinghua, a Chinese dialect
- Ping.fm, a microblog social network
- Table tennis, a racquet sport also known as "ping-pong"
- Template:Ping (redirects to Template:Reply to)
- All pages beginning with "Ping"
- All pages with titles containing Ping
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