Definitions of Ping on the Web:

• hit with a pinging noise; "The bugs pinged the lamp shade"
• pink: sound like a car engine that is firing too early; "the car pinged when I put in low-octane gasoline"; "The car pinked when the ignition was too far retarded"
• make a short high-pitched sound; "the bullet pinged when they struck the car"
• contact, usually in order to remind of something; "I'll ping my accountant--April 15 is nearing"
• a river in western Thailand; a major tributary of the Chao Phraya
• send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active; "ping your machine in the office"
• a sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal)
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• In blogging, ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated. ...
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• In multiplayer online video games, ping refers to the network latency between a player's computer, called a client, and the game server (or another client). This could be reported quantitatively as an averaged time in milliseconds, or qualitatively as low ping or high ping. ...
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• "Ping" is a short story by Samuel Beckett written in French (originally "Bing") in 1966, and later translated into English by the author. ...
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• PING is a brand of high-quality golf equipment, as well as one of the largest of the remaining American manufacturers of golf clubs, based in Phoenix, Arizona, founded by Karsten Solheim, who was an engineer at the General Electric company. ...
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• Ping (Ping referred as Packet Internet Grouper) is a computer network tool used to test whether a particular host is reachable across an IP network; it is also used to self test the network interface card of the computer, or as a speed test. ...
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• PING (Partimage Is Not Ghost) is a free software Linux-based live CD ISO built upon the partimage and Linux from Scratch (LFS) projects for disk cloning or backup purposes. ...
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• Fa Mulan and later 'Li Mulan' is the protagonist of the 1998 Disney animated film Mulan and its direct-to-video sequel, Mulan II. ...
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• A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound; A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels; A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence; An email or other message sent requesting ...
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