Pip, PIP, Pips, PIPS, and ''similar'', may refer to:
Common meanings
* Pip, colloquial name for the star(s) worn on military uniform as part of rank badge, as in the
British Army officer rank insignia or with many Commonwealth police agencies
* The
seed of some fruits
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Pip (counting), a small but easily countable item, such as the dots on dice or symbols on playing cards
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Pip (dominoes)
The following is a glossary of terms used in dominoes. Besides the terms listed here, there are numerous regional or local slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific, i.e. specific to one particular version of dominoes, but a ...
, a dot on a domino tile
Arts, entertainment and media
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"Pip" (''South Park''), a 2000 episode of ''South Park''
* The Pips, the backup singers in the musical group
Gladys Knight & the Pips
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Providence Initiative for Psychogeographic Studies
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Providence Initiative for Psychogeographic Studies (PIPS), sometimes referred to as "People Interested in Participatory Societies," is a small collective of artists in Providence, Rhode Island which promotes art ...
, an art group
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PiP Animation Services, a Canadian animation studio
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The Pip, the nickname of a clandestine radio station of Russian origin
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BBC Pips
The Greenwich Time Signal (GTS), popularly known as the pips, is a series of six short tones (or "pips") broadcast at one-second intervals by many BBC Radio stations. The pips were introduced in 1924 and have been generated by the BBC since 1990 ...
or ''The Pips'', a timing signal broadcast by the BBC
Finance and management
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Percentage in point
In finance, specifically in foreign exchange markets, a percentage in point or price interest point (pip) is a unit of change in an exchange rate of a currency pair.
The major currencies (except the Japanese yen) are traditionally priced to fou ...
, a currency exchange rate fluctuation
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Performance improvement plan
A performance is an act of staging or presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment. It is also defined as the action or process of carrying out or accomplishing an action, task, or function.
Management science
In the work place ...
, a management technique
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Personal Independence Payment
Personal Independence Payment (abbreviated to PIP and usually pronounced as one word) is a welfare benefit in the United Kingdom that is intended to help working age adults with the extra costs of living with a health condition or a disability.
...
, a welfare benefit in the United Kingdom
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Personal injury protection Personal injury protection (PIP) is an extension of car insurance available in some U.S. states that covers medical expenses and, in some cases, lost wages and other damages. PIP is sometimes referred to as "no-fault" coverage, because the statute ...
, a type of car insurance
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Policy-ineffectiveness proposition, an economic theory
People
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Pip (nickname) Pip is a name of English origin. It is a nickname for individuals named Philip or Philippa. Other variants include Pipkin, Pippin, Pippa, and Piper.
* Pip Adam, New Zealand novelist
* Philip Baker, one half of Pip and Jane Baker, a British tele ...
, a list of people with the nickname
*
Pip (musician)
Phillip Andrew Arnold (born April 26, 1992, in Marietta, Georgia), known professionally as Pip, is an American, funk-pop artist who participated in season 2 of '' The Voice'' as part of Team Adam Levine.
Early life
During his childhood, Pip ...
(born 1992), contestant on Season 2 of NBC's TV show ''The Voice''
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Pip Millett, English musician Georgia Willacy
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Pip Simmonds
Pip Simmonds is a New Zealand freestyle skier. She was the New Zealand freestyle and half-pipe champion for many years. Simmonds represented New Zealand as a finalist at the US Open.
Pip is not only a freeskier. She also makes jewelry out of ...
, New Zealand freestyle skier
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Scroobius Pip (born 1981), alias of rapper David Meads
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Josef Priller
Josef "Pips" Priller (; 27 July 1915 – 20 May 1961) was a German military aviator and wing commander in the Luftwaffe during World War II. As a fighter ace, he was credited with 101 enemy aircraft shot down in 307 combat missions. All of his v ...
(1915–1961), German fighter ace nicknamed "Pips"
Fictional characters
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Pip (''Great Expectations''), Philip Pirrip from the Charles Dickens' novel ''Great Expectations''
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Pip Pirrup, a student at South Park Elementary in ''South Park''
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Pip (''Moby-Dick'' character)
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Peregrin Took
Peregrin Took, commonly known simply as Pippin, is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel ''The Lord of the Rings''. He is closely tied with his friend and cousin, Merry Brandybuck, and the two are together during most of th ...
, in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy ''The Lord of the Rings''
* Pip, a
major character in ''The Railway Series'' of books
* Pip, in the British newspaper strip cartoon ''
Pip, Squeak and Wilfred''
*
Pip (''Chrono Cross'')
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Pip the Troll, a Marvel Comics character
* Pip, in the ''
Grailquest
GrailQuest is a series of gamebooks by J. H. Brennan. The books are illustrated by John Higgins. The stories follow the adventures of a young hero named Pip, who is often called upon by Merlin to right wrongs and save the realm from evil. The ser ...
'' gamebook series
*
Pip Bernadotte, in the manga ''Hellsing''
* Pip, an
''Animaniacs'' character
* Pip, in the Nickelodeon animated show ''
Back at the Barnyard
''Back at the Barnyard'' (also known as ''Barnyard: The Series'') is an American CGI animated television series based on the 2006 film ''Barnyard''. The second and final installment in the ''Barnyard'' franchise, the series aired from Septemb ...
''
* Pip, a nickname of Chiana, in the Australian television series ''
Farscape
''Farscape'' is an Australian-American science fiction television series, produced originally for the Nine Network. It premiered in the US on Sci-Fi Channel's SciFi Friday, 19 March 1999, at 8:00 pm EST as their anchor series. The series was c ...
''
* Pip, in the film ''
The Halloween Tree
''The Halloween Tree'' is a 1972 fantasy novel by American author Ray Bradbury, which traces the history of Samhain and Halloween.
Plot summary
A group of eight boys set out to go trick-or-treating on Halloween, only to discover that a ninth ...
''
* Pip, a persona featured on the Tori Amos album ''
American Doll Posse
''American Doll Posse'' is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Tori Amos, released in 2007 by Epic Records. A concept album, ''American Doll Posse'' sees Amos assuming the identity of five different female personalities inspire ...
''
* Pips, a fictional fairy in the animated film ''
FernGully: The Last Rainforest'' and its sequel
* Pip, an animated chipmunk in the Disney live-action/animated film ''
Enchanted''
* Pip, an otter in the television series ''
Bear in the Big Blue House''
* Pip the Penguin, in the animated series ''
T.O.T.S.
''T.O.T.S.'' (also known as ''Tiny Ones Transport Service'') is an American computer-animated children's television series created by Travis Braun, The series debuted on Disney Junior on June 14, 2019. It focuses on Pip and his friend Freddy wh ...
''
Schools
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Pakistan International Public School and College Pakistan International Public School & College (Urdu:پاکستان انٹرنیشنل پبلک سکول اینڈ کالج), usually abbreviated to its acronym PIPS is a private residential school situated in Abbottabad city of the Khyber Pakhtunkh ...
(PIPS), a private residential school in Abbottabad, Pakistan
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Pakistan Institute of Physics
Pakistan Institute of Physics (PIP) of the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore is a national research institute in Pakistan. It is a scientific charity devoted to increase the practice and understanding of physics. PIP is controlled by ...
, a physics research institute of the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore in Pakistan
Politics and government
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Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services, a Pakistani government institution
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Police information point, a kiosk run by British police
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Peruvian Investigative Police
, battles =
, native_name = Policía de Investigaciones del Perú
The Peruvian Investigative Police ( es, Policía de Investigaciones del Perú, PIP) was a Peruvian plainclothes police unit, similar to the United States Federal Bureau o ...
, a plainclothes police unit
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Puerto Rican Independence Party, a political party
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Personal Independence Payment
Personal Independence Payment (abbreviated to PIP and usually pronounced as one word) is a welfare benefit in the United Kingdom that is intended to help working age adults with the extra costs of living with a health condition or a disability.
...
, a British welfare benefit
Science and technology
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Greenwich Time Signal, popularly known as the pips
*
Predicted impact point
The predicted impact point (PIP) is the location that a ballistic projectile (e.g. bomb, missile, bullet) is expected to strike if fired. The PIP is almost always actively determined by a targeting computer, which then projects a PIP marker (a "pi ...
, the location at which a projectile is expected to strike
*
Profile ignition pickup
A crank sensor (CKP) is an electronic device used in an internal combustion engine, both petrol and diesel, to monitor the position or rotational speed of the crankshaft. This information is used by engine management systems to control the fuel ...
, a term in automotive technology
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Proper indecomposable past set
In mathematical physics, the causal structure of a Lorentzian manifold describes the causal relationships between points in the manifold.
Introduction
In modern physics (especially general relativity) spacetime is represented by a Lorentzian ...
, a causal relation in a Lorentzian manifold
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Picture-in-picture, a video stream playing within an inset window of a TV or device screen
Biology and medicine
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Peak inspiratory pressure (P
IP), in mechanical ventilation
* Plasma membrane intrinsic protein, a class of plant
aquaporins
*
Poly Implant Prothèse
Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP) was a French company founded in 1991 that produced silicone gel breast implants. The company was preemptively liquidated in 2010 following the revelation that they had been illegally manufacturing and selling breast ...
, a former French breast implants manufacturer
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Polymerization induced phase separation Polymerization-induced phase separation (PIPS) is the occurrence of phase separation in a multicomponent mixture induced by the polymerization of one or more components. The increase in molecular weight of the reactive component renders one or more ...
*
Prolactin-induced protein
Prolactin-inducible protein also known as gross cystic disease fluid protein 15 (GCDFP-15), extra-parotid glycoprotein (EP-GP), gp17 seminal actin-binding protein (SABP) or BRST2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''PIP'' gene. It is u ...
, a protein in humans
* Proximal interphalangeal joints,
interphalangeal joints of the hand
The interphalangeal joints of the hand are the hinge joints between the phalanges of the fingers that provide flexion towards the palm of the hand.
There are two sets in each finger (except in the thumb, which has only one joint):
* "proximal in ...
* Pairwise-invasibility plot in
evolutionary invasion analysis
Evolutionary invasion analysis, also known as adaptive dynamics, is a set of mathematical modeling techniques that use differential equations to study the long-term evolution of traits in asexually reproducing populations. It rests on the foll ...
*
Psychosis-intermittent hyponatremia-polydipsia (PIP) syndrome
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Pug impression pad, an object used for the census of tigers
Computing
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Peripheral Interchange Program, a DEC and CP/M file transfer utility
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Point in polygon, a concept in computational geometry
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Policy Information Point
XACML stands for "eXtensible Access Control Markup Language". The standard defines a declarative fine-grained, attribute-based access control policy language, an architecture, and a processing model describing how to evaluate access requests a ...
, in eXtensible Access Control Markup Language
*
Private Internet Protocol
PIP in telecommunications and datacommunications stands for Private Internet Protocol or Private IP. PIP refers to connectivity into a private extranet network which by its design emulates the functioning of the Internet
The Internet ...
*
pip (package manager), a Python package installer
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P.I.P.S. Is POSIX on Symbian
P.I.P.S. is a term ( recursive acronym) for Symbian software libraries, and means "P.I.P.S. Is POSIX on Symbian OS". It is intended to help C language programmers in migration of desktop and server middleware, applications to Symbian OS base ...
, known as P.I.P.S.
*
Precision Time Protocol Industry Profile
Industrial automation systems consisting of several distributed controllers need a precise synchronization for commands, events and process data.
For instance, motors for newspaper printing are synchronized within some 5 microseconds to ensure th ...
, an IEC 62439-3 standard
Other uses
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Battle of the Pips, an incident in World War II
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Palisades Interstate Parkway, a highway in New York and New Jersey, United States
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Pip Cliffs
Pip Cliffs () is a prominent rock cliffs, rising to about 1,250 m in southwestern Aristotle Mountains, 10 km west of Mount Fedallah and 3.5 km east of Peychinov Crag, on the north side of Flask Glacier on Oscar II Coast, Graham Land. In ...
, Graham Land, Antarctica
* IATA code for
Pilot Point Airport
Pilot Point Airport is a state-owned, public-use airport located in Pilot Point, a city in the Lake and Peninsula Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. Scheduled airline service to King Salmon Airport is provided by Grant Aviation.[Phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate
Phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate (PtdIns3''P'') is a phospholipid found in cell membranes that helps to recruit a range of proteins, many of which are involved in protein trafficking, to the membranes. It is the product of both the class II and II ...]
, also known as PI(3)P
*
Phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate Phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate (PtdIns4''P'', PI-4-P, PI4P, or PIP) is a precursor of phosphatidylinositol (4,5)-bisphosphate. PtdIns4''P'' is prevalent in the membrane of the Golgi apparatus.
In the Golgi apparatus, PtdIns4''P'' binds to the GT ...
, also known as PI(4)P
*
Phosphatidylinositol 5-phosphate
Phosphatidylinositol 5-phosphate (PtdIns5P) is a phosphoinositide, one of the phosphorylated derivatives of phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns), that are well-established membrane-anchored regulatory molecules. Phosphoinositides participate in signaling ...
, also known as PI(5)P
* The Pip-Boy, a wrist computer in the ''
Fallout'' video games
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Pipp (disambiguation)
Pipp or pipps or ''variation'', may refer to:
Places
*Pipp Brook, a tributary of the River Mole in Surrey, England, UK
*Pipps Hill, Essex, England, UK; see List of United Kingdom locations: Peo-Pn
People
*E.G. Pipp, a U.S. newspaperman, the foun ...
, including pipps
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