Ping - Computer Ping

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: åª), a Taiwanese measure of area
Ping project, a project of the European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet)

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.

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

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