Ping
Appearance
Ping may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
[edit]Fictional characters
[edit]- Ping, a domesticated Chinese duck in the illustrated book The Story about Ping, first published in 1933
- Ping, a minor character in Seinfeld, an NBC sitcom
- Ping, a character in the webcomic Megatokyo
- Pingg, a character from Pingu.
- the protagonist of the Kung Fu Panda franchise
- Mr. Ping, Po's adopted father
Other uses in arts and entertainment
[edit]- "Ping" (short story), by Samuel Beckett
- Ping!, a 2000 film featuring Shirley Jones
- Ping, an ability in the trading card game Magic: The Gathering
People
[edit]- Ping (given name)
- Ping (surname) (平), a Chinese surname
- Bing (Chinese surname) (邴), romanized Ping in Wade–Giles
- Ping (nickname)
Places
[edit]- Ping River, Thailand
- Ping Island, Yongzhou, Hunan, China
Science and technology
[edit]Computing
[edit]- Ping (blogging), used for blogs, RSS, and related web services
- Ping (networking utility), a computer network monitoring tool
- Ping (video games), the network latency between computers used in online gaming
- Mention (blogging), a reference to a user profile, especially called a "ping" when this delivers a notification sound
- Ping.fm, a defunct microblog social network
- iTunes Ping, a social network for music that was once built into Apple iTunes
- Ping Identity, an American software company
Other uses in science and technology
[edit]- Ping (unit), the Chinese equivalent of pyeong (坪), a Korean unit of area
- Ping, a pulse of sound in active sonar
- Ping project, a project of the European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet)
- Pinging, a noise indicative of improper combustion in internal combustion engines
Other uses
[edit]- Ping (golf), a manufacturer and brand name of golf equipment
- Bing (bread), also written as "ping", a type of Chinese flat bread
- "The Ping", a phenomenon present in the Fury and Hecla Strait, Canada
See also
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