Pip

{{Wiktionary|PIP|PiP|Pip|pip|píp|pips}} '''Pip''', '''PiP''', '''PIP''', '''Pips''', '''PIPS''', and similar, may refer to: {{TOC right}}

==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 * The pyrena, also called a pit or stone, inside some fruits * Pip (counting), a small but easily countable item, such as the dots on dice or symbols on playing cards * Pip, a dot on a domino tile, refer Glossary of domino terms

==Arts, entertainment and media== * "Pip" (''South Park''), a 2000 episode of ''South Park'' * The Pips, the backing singers in the musical group Gladys Knight & the Pips * Providence Initiative for Psychogeographic Studies, an art group * PiP Animation Services, a Canadian animation studio * The Pip, the nickname of a clandestine radio station of Russian origin * BBC Pips or ''The Pips'', a timing signal broadcast by the BBC

==Finance and management== * Percentage in point, a currency exchange rate fluctuation * Performance improvement plan, a management technique * Personal Independence Payment, a welfare benefit in the United Kingdom * Personal injury protection, a type of car insurance * Policy-ineffectiveness proposition, an economic theory

==People== * Pip, diminutive of Philip or Phillipa * Pip (nickname), a list of people with the nickname * Pip (musician) (born 1992), contestant on Season 2 of NBC's TV show ''The Voice'' * Pip Devonshire (born 1966), New Zealand weaver * Pip Millett, English musician Georgia Willacy * Pip Simmonds, New Zealand freestyle skier * Scroobius Pip (born 1981), alias of rapper David Meads * Josef Priller (1915–1961), German fighter ace nicknamed "Pips"

==Fictional characters== * Pip (''Great Expectations''), Philip Pirrip from the Charles Dickens' novel ''Great Expectations'' * Pip Pirrup, a student at South Park Elementary in ''South Park'' * Pip (''Moby-Dick'' character) * Peregrin Took, (Pippin) 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'') * Pip the Troll, a Marvel Comics character * Pip, in the ''Grailquest'' gamebook series * Pip Bernadotte, in the manga ''Hellsing'' * Pip, an ''Animaniacs'' character * Pip, in the Nickelodeon animated show ''Back at the Barnyard'' * Pip, a nickname of Chiana, in the Australian television series ''Farscape'' * Pip, in the film ''The Halloween Tree'' * Pip, a persona featured on the Tori Amos album ''American Doll Posse'' * 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.'' * Pip, from ''The Twilight Zone'' (1959) episode "A Nice Place to Visit" * Pip Fitz-Amobi, the main character of ''A Good Girls Guide to Murder''

==Schools== * Pakistan International Public School and College (PIPS), a private residential school in Abbottabad, Pakistan * Pakistan Institute of Physics, a physics research institute of the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore in Pakistan

==Politics and government== * Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services, a Pakistani government institution * Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies, a Pakistani non-governmental organization * Police information point, a kiosk run by British police * Peruvian Investigative Police, a plainclothes police unit * Puerto Rican Independence Party, a political party * Personal Independence Payment, a British welfare benefit

==Science and technology== <!--keep to top--> * Greenwich Time Signal, popularly known as the pips * Predicted impact point, the location at which a projectile is expected to strike * Profile ignition pickup, a term in automotive technology * Proper indecomposable past set, a causal relation in a Lorentzian manifold * Picture-in-picture, a video stream playing within an inset window of a TV or device screen

===Biology and medicine=== * Peak inspiratory pressure (P_IP), in mechanical ventilation * Plasma membrane intrinsic protein, a class of plant aquaporins * Poly Implant Prothèse, a former French breast implants manufacturer * Polymerization induced phase separation * Prolactin-induced protein, a protein in humans * Proximal interphalangeal joints, interphalangeal joints of the hand * Pairwise-invasibility plot in evolutionary invasion analysis * Psychosis-intermittent hyponatremia-polydipsia (PIP) syndrome * Pug impression pad, an object used for the census of tigers

===Computing=== * Peripheral Interchange Program, a DEC and CP/M file transfer utility * Point in polygon, a concept in computational geometry * Policy Information Point, in eXtensible Access Control Markup Language * Private Internet Protocol * pip (package manager), a Python package installer * P.I.P.S. Is POSIX on Symbian, known as P.I.P.S. * Precision Time Protocol Industry Profile, an IEC 62439-3 standard

==Other uses== * Battle of the Pips, an incident in World War II * Palisades Interstate Parkway, a highway in New York and New Jersey, United States * Pip Cliffs, Graham Land, Antarctica * IATA code for Pilot Point Airport, Pilot Point, Alaska, United States

==See also== {{canned search|pip|pips}} * Phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate, also known as PI(3)P * Phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate, also known as PI(4)P * Phosphatidylinositol 5-phosphate, also known as PI(5)P * The Pip-Boy, a wrist computer in the ''Fallout'' video games * {{intitle|pips}} * {{intitle|pip}} * Pipp (disambiguation), including pipps

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