Chip may refer to:

Food

* Chip (snack), thin sliced food, cooked until crunchy ** Potato chip, a thin slice of potato that has been deep fried or baked until crunchy, called a "crisp" in some countries, such as the UK. *

Chips (hot food) French fries (North American English), chips (British English), finger chips ( Indian English), french-fried potatoes, or simply fries, are '' batonnet'' or ''allumette''-cut deep-fried potatoes of disputed origin from Belgium and France. Th ...

, fried potato batons also called ''french fries'' *

Game chips Game chips are a traditional British accompaniment to roast gamebirds, such as pheasant, grouse, partridge and quail. They are thin slices of potato (sometimes dusted with flour; often crinkle-cut), deep-fried, and may be served hot or cold. Th ...

, thin deep-fried slices of potato served as an accompaniment to roast gamebirds *

Chocolate chip Chocolate chips or chocolate morsels are small chunks of sweetened chocolate, used as an ingredient in a number of desserts (notably chocolate chip cookies and muffins), in trail mix and less commonly in some breakfast foods such as pancakes. ...

, small chunk of sweetened chocolate

Sports and gaming

* Chip (association football), a type of football shot * Chip (golf), a type of golf shot *

Casino token Casino tokens (also known as casino or gaming chips, checks, cheques or poker chips) are small discs used in terms of currency in casinos. Colored metal, injection-molded plastic or compression molded clay tokens of various denominations are us ...

, often referred to as a chip

People and fictional characters

Chip (name) Chip is an English given name and nickname in the United States, which is often a diminutive form of Charles or Christopher. Notable people referred to by this name include the following: People Nickname * Raymond Chip Ambres (born 1979), Ame ...

, a list of people and fictional characters with either the given name or nickname * Chip (rapper), English hip hop recording artist born Jahmaal Noel Fyffe in 1990 * King Chip (born 1986), stage name of American hip hop rapper Charles Jawanzaa Worth, formerly known as Chip tha Ripper * Chip Douglas, American songwriter, musician, and record producer Douglas Hatlelid (born 1942) * Chip Taylor, stage name of American songwriter James Wesley Voight (born 1940) * Chip Fairway, a ring name of American professional wrestler Brett J. Keen (1972–2011)

Biology

Chromatin immunoprecipitation Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is a type of immunoprecipitation experimental technique used to investigate the interaction between proteins and DNA in the cell. It aims to determine whether specific proteins are associated with specific genom ...

(ChIP), a molecular biology method to map DNA sites * STUB1, a human gene also known as CHIP (C terminus of HSC70-Interacting Protein) *

Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential, or CHIP, is a common aging-related phenomenon in which hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) or other early blood cell progenitors contribute to the formation of a genetically distinct subpopulation of bl ...

(CHIP)

Computing

* Chip, a monolithic integrated circuit without its packaging, a microchip ** An integrated circuit mounted on a surface mount

chip carrier In electronics, a chip carrier is one of several kinds of surface-mount technology packages for integrated circuits (commonly called "chips"). Connections are made on all four edges of a square package; compared to the internal cavity for mounti ...

Chip (CDMA) In digital communications, a chip is a pulse of a direct-sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) code, such as a pseudo-random noise (PN) code sequence used in direct-sequence code-division multiple access (CDMA) channel access techniques. In a binary di ...

, the fundamental unit of transmission in CDMA *

CHIP (computer) CHIP (stylized as C.H.I.P.) was a single-board computer crowdfunded by now-defunct Next Thing Co. (NTC), released as open-source hardware running open-source software. It was advertised as "the world's first $9 computer". CHIP and related produ ...

, Linux dev board built by Next Thing Co. and marketed as a miniature computer * CHIP (programming language), based on Prolog *

CHIP-8 CHIP-8 is an interpreted programming language, developed by Joseph Weisbecker made on his 1802 Microprocessor. It was initially used on the COSMAC VIP and Telmac 1800 8-bit microcomputers in the mid-1970s. CHIP-8 programs are run on a CHIP-8 ...

, a video game programming language in the 1970s * ChucK for iPhone/iPad (ChiP), a programming language used for music synthesis *

Connected Home over IP Matter, formerly Project Connected Home over IP (CHIP), is a proprietary standard for home automation that is royalty-free, with manufacturers only incurring certification costs. Announced on 18 December 2019, Matter aims to reduce fragmentation ...

(CHIP), a protocol for home automation

Finance

* Chip (stock market), description of stock of a particular quality * Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS), a United States private clearing house for large-value transactions

Organizations and programs

* California Highway Patrol (CHiP), a law enforcement agency of California * CHIP Holding, a German-based publishing house * Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a US federal government program * Community Housing and Infrastructure Program (CHIP), an Australian government funding program, along with its

Community Development Employment Projects The Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) was an initiative by the Australian Government for the employment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people It provided a flexible basic income support. One way in which the CDEP funds, a ...

* Masonic Child Identification Programs, a charitable initiative by North American Masonic lodges

Other uses

* Chip, one of the mascots of the University of Colorado at Boulder *

Chip language Miship, or Chip, is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria. Doka is a dialect. Blench lists the two dialects ''Longmaar'' and ''Jiɓaam''.Blench, Roger. 2017Current research on the A3 West Chadic languages The Chip people are ...

, spoken in Nigeria *

Swarf Swarf, also known as chips or by other process-specific names (such as turnings, filings, or shavings), are pieces of metal, wood, or plastic that are the debris or waste resulting from machining, woodworking, or similar subtractive (material-r ...

, also known as chips, the debris or waste resulting from metalworking operations * ''CHIP'' (magazine), a German computer magazine ** '' Chip-India'', Indian edition of German computer magazine ''CHIP''