Pip

Pip, 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 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 Picture-in-picture, a broadcasting format Pips, a logic puzzle in The New York Times Games

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 UK Personal injury protection, a type of car insurance Policy-ineffectiveness proposition, an economic theory

People Pip, diminutive of Philip or Philippa 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 Chiana, in the Australian television series Farscape, nicknamed "Pip" 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 Biology and medicine Peak inspiratory pressure (PIP), 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 in science and technology 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

Other uses Battle of the Pips, an incident in World War II Palisades Interstate Parkway, a highway in New York and New Jersey, US Pip Cliffs, Graham Land, Antarctica Pilot Point Airport, Pilot Point, Alaska, US (IATA code PIP)

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