Pip
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Pip, Pips, Pipp, PIP or PIPS may refer to:
Common meanings
- The seed of some fruits, such as the orange or tangerine
- Pip (counting), a small but easily countable item, such as the dots on dice or symbols on playing cards
- Pip, a decoration worn on a military uniform to denote rank, such as on British Army officer rank insignia
Science and technology
- Greenwich Time Signal, popularly known as the pips
- 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
- Picture-in-picture, a television feature
- Plug-in Prius, a Toyota hybrid electric vehicle
- Precision Ion Polishing System, used for TEM sample preparation
Biology and medicine
- Peak inspiratory pressure, (PIP), a setting used in mechanical ventilation
- Prolactin-induced protein
- Proximal interphalangeal joints, one of two sets of interphalangeal articulations of hand
- Pairwise-invasibility plot: in evolutionary invasion analysis, a plot to determine if a mutant strategy can invade a population with a resident strategy
- Pip, an inexact term for various respiratory diseases in birds; often coryza
Computing
- Peripheral Interchange Program, a file transfer utility under CP/M and several Digital Equipment operating systems
- Point in polygon, a concept in computational geometry
- Policy Information Point, a term used in eXtensible Access Control Markup Language
- Private Internet Protocol
- pip (package manager), a Python package installer
- P.I.P.S. Is POSIX on Symbian, known as P.I.P.S.
Places
- Pip Cliffs, Graham Land, Antarctica
- Pipp Brook, a tributary of the River Mole in Surrey, England
- IATA code for Pilot Point Airport, Pilot Point, Alaska, United States
Businesses
- Poly Implant Prothèse, a former French firm which made breast implants
- PiP Animation Services, a Canadian animation studio
Finance and management
- Percentage in point, a currency exchange rate fluctuation
- Performance improvement plan, a management technique
- Policy Ineffectiveness Proposition, an economic theory
Schools
- Pakistan Institute of Physics, a physics research institute of the University of Engineering and Technology of Pakistan
- Pakistan International Public School and College, a school and college in Pakistan
- Punjab International Public School, a high school in Pakistan
People
- Pip (nickname)
- Pip Carter, British actor
- Pip Courtney, Australian journalist and television presenter
- Pip Simmonds, New Zealand freestyle skier
- Wally Pipp (1893-1965), Major League Baseball first baseman best known for being replaced by Lou Gehrig
- Josef Priller (1915-1961), (nickname Pips) German fighter ace
- Pips, the backup singers in the musical group Gladys Knight & the Pips
- Scroobius Pip (born 1981), alias of rapper David Meads
- Pip (musician), a contestant on Season 2 of NBC's TV show The Voice
Government
- Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services, a Pakistani government institution
Fictional characters
- Pip (Great Expectations), Philip Pirrip from the Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations
- Pip Pirrup, a student at South Park Elementary in South Park
- Pip, in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick
- Peregrin Took, in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy The Lord of the Rings
- Pip, Flinx's pet minidrag in numerous science fiction novels by Alan Dean Foster
- Pip, a major character in The Railway Series of books
- Pip, in the British newspaper strip cartoon Pip, Squeak and Wilfred
- Pip (Chrono Cross)
- Pip the Troll, a Marvel Comics character
- Pip, in the Grailquest gamebook series
- Pip Bernadotte, in the manga Hellsing
- Pip, an Animaniacs character
- Pip, in the Nickelodeon animated show Back at the Barnyard
- Pip, a nickname of Chiana, in the Australian television series Farscape
- Pip, in the film The Halloween Tree
- Pip, a persona featured on the Tori Amos album American Doll Posse
- Pip Phillips, a character in The Twilight Zone episode "In Praise of Pip"
- Pip, a character in The Twilight Zone episode "A Nice Place to Visit"
- Pips, a fictional fairy in the animated film FernGully: The Last Rainforest
- Pip, an animated chipmunk in the Disney live-action/animated film Enchanted
Other uses
- Personal Independence Payment, a welfare benefit in the United Kingdom
- Battle of the Pips, an incident in World War II
- Puerto Rican Independence Party, a political party
- Providence Initiative for Psychogeographic Studies, an art group
- Personal injury protection, a type of car insurance
- The Pip, the nickname of a clandestine radio station of Russian origin
- Palisades Interstate Parkway, US
- Peruvian Investigative Police, a plainclothes police unit
- Police Information Point, a kiosk run by British police
- "Pip" (South Park), an episode of South Park
- Pug Impression Pad, an object used for the census of tigers
- Partners in Protection, a Canada Border Services Agency program that enlists the cooperation of private industry to enhance border and trade security
See also
- Phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate, also known as PI(3)P
- Phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate, also known as PI(4)P
- Phosphatidylinositol 5-phosphate, also known as PI(5)P
- The Pip Boy, a wrist-mounted personal computer worn in the popular Fallout video game series
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