Piggyback, piggy-back, or piggybacking may mean:
Transport
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Piggyback (transportation)
Piggyback transportation refers to the transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the back of something else. It is a specialised form of intermodal freight transport, intermodal transportation and combined transport.
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, something that is riding on the back of something else
Art, entertainment, and media
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Splash cymbal piggybacking, 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)
Piggy-back applies to contractual agreements in law, more specifically shareholder selling rights. To apply, a piggy-back clause must be included in a corporation's shareholder agreement, which is part of the incorporation materials.
Because t ...
, 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 sl ...
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Piggyback microcontroller
A microcontroller (MC, uC, or μC) or microcontroller unit (MCU) is a small computer on a single integrated circuit. A microcontroller contains one or more CPUs (processor cores) along with memory and programmable input/output peripherals. Prog ...
, a microcontroller variant with EPROM socket
Healthcare
* Piggybacking, a second infusion set onto the same intravenous line using a
Y-Set (intravenous therapy)
In intravenous therapy
Intravenous therapy (abbreviated as IV therapy) is a medical technique that administers fluids, medications and nutrients directly into a person's vein. The intravenous route of administration is commonly used for rehydr ...
* "
Piggy-back technique", is a technique in liver transplantation in which the recipient
inferior vena cava
The inferior vena cava is a large vein that carries the deoxygenated blood from the lower and middle body into the right atrium of the heart. It is formed by the joining of the right and the left common iliac veins, usually at the level of the ...
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
Astrophotography, also known as astronomical imaging, is the photography or imaging of astronomical objects, celestial events, or areas of the night sky. The first photograph of an astronomical object (the Moon) was taken in 1839, but it was no ...
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PiggyBac transposon system, a type of transposable DNA element
Security
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Piggybacking (security)
In security, piggybacking, similar to tailgating, refers to when a person tags along with another person who is authorized to gain entry into a restricted area, or pass a certain checkpoint. It can be either electronic or physical. The act may be ...
, 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)
Piggyback, piggy-back, or piggybacking may mean:
Transport
* Piggyback (transportation), something that is riding on the back of something else
Art, entertainment, and media
*Splash cymbal piggybacking, mounting a cymbal on top of an already s ...
, a bi-directional data transmission technique in network layer, sending data along with ACK called Piggybacking
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Piggybacking (Internet access), obtaining wireless access by bringing one's own computer within the range of another subscriber's service
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