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Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Ping may refer to:

Science and Technology

  • Ping, a pulse of sound in active sonar
  • Pinging, the noise indicative of improper combustion in internal combustion engines
  • Ping (Chinese: 坪), a Taiwanese measure of area
  • Ping project, a project of the European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet)

Computing

  • 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
  • Ping (video gaming), the network latency between computers used in online gaming.

People

  • Ping (surname) (å¹³), a Chinese surname
  • Bing (Chinese surname) (é‚´), romanized Ping in Wadeâ€"Giles
  • Ping (given name)
  • Jean Ping (born 1942), Gabonese diplomat and Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union
  • Nimrod Ping (1947â€"2006), politician in Brighton, England
  • Frank Steven Ping Bodie (1887â€"1961), Major League Baseball player
  • Panfilo Morena "Ping" Lacson (born 1948), Filipino politician and current member of the Philippine Senate

Arts and entertainment

  • "Ping" (short story), by Samuel Beckett
  • Ping!, a 2000 film featuring Shirley Jones
  • Ping, an ability in the trading card game Magic: The Gathering

Fictional characters

  • 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

Places

  • Ping, Washington, a community in the United States
  • Ping River, a river in Thailand

Other

  • Ping (golf), a manufacturer and brand name of golf equipment
  • Bing (bread), also written as "ping", a type of Chinese flat bread

See also

  • 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 a title containing Ping
 
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