Piggyback, piggy-back, or piggybacking may mean:
Transport
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Piggyback (transportation), something that is riding on the back of something else
Art, entertainment, and media
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Splash cymbal piggybacking In a drum kit, splash cymbals are the smallest accent cymbals. Splash cymbals and china cymbals are the main types of effects cymbals.
The most common sized splash has a diameter of 10", followed by 8". Most splash cymbals are in the size range o ...
, mounting a cymbal on top of an already stand-mounted cymbal
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"Piggyback" (song), 2017 song by Melanie Martinez
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Chapter Nine: The Piggyback, 2022 episode of ''Stranger Things''.
Business, finance, and law
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Piggy-back (law), shareholder selling rights
* Piggybacking, a practice in which a person with bad credit uses the
seasoned tradeline of credit of someone else
Electronics
* Piggyback board, a
daughterboard
In computing, an expansion card (also called an expansion board, adapter card, peripheral card or accessory card) is a printed circuit board that can be inserted into an electrical connector, or expansion slot (also referred to as a bus slo ...
Healthcare
* Piggybacking, a second infusion set onto the same intravenous line using a
Y-Set (intravenous therapy)
In intravenous therapy a Y-Set, T-Set and V-Sets are Y, T and V shaped three-way connector sets made of connecting plastic tubes used for delivering intravenous drugs into the body from multiple fluid sources. As Y-Sets are the most common shaped s ...
* "
Piggy-back technique", is a technique in liver transplantation in which the recipient
inferior vena cava is preserved.
* Vision Correction: The wearing of zero- or very-low-strength soft (daily disposable) contact lenses behind hard lenses if the hard lenses alone are uncomfortable or damaging to the cornea.
Science
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Piggyback plant
''Tolmiea menziesii'' () is a species of flowering plant in the family Saxifragaceae. It is known by the common names youth on age, pick-a-back-plant, piggyback plant, and thousand mothers.
It is a perennial plant native to the West Coast of Nort ...
, ''Tolmiea menziesii''
* Piggybacking, technique used in
astrophotography
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PiggyBac transposon system, a type of transposable DNA element
Security
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Piggybacking (security), when an authorized person allows (intentionally or unintentionally) others to pass through a secure door when they enter.
Telecommunications
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Piggybacking (data transmission), a bi-directional data transmission technique in network layer, sending data along with ACK called Piggybacking
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Piggybacking (Internet access)
Piggybacking on Internet access is the practice of establishing a wireless Internet connection by using another subscriber's wireless Internet access service without the subscriber's explicit permission or knowledge. It is a legally and ethicall ...
, obtaining wireless access by bringing one's own computer within the range of another subscriber's service
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