Ping (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Technology 2 Fictional characters 3 Slang 4 Other uses 5 See also

Ping is a computer network tool used to test whether a particular host is reachable across an IP network.

Ping may also refer to:

[edit] Technology

• Ping (blogging), used for blogs, RSS, and related web services
• Ping, a pulse of sound in active sonar
• Ping, one of the official pronunciations of PNG (Portable Network Graphics), a lossless bitmap image format

[edit] Fictional characters

• Ping, the title character in the children's book The Story about Ping, by Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese
• Ping, a minor character in the NBC sitcom Seinfeld
• Ping, a character in the webcomic Megatokyo
• Ping, the character Fa Mulan takes on in the animated film Mulan
• Ping the Elastic Man, a comic strip character who first appeared in 1938

[edit] Slang

• Ping (video games), the network latency seen between a game player's computer and the game server (or another player)
• Ping, a slang term in sports for getting penalised in rugby or caught by the umpire and paid a free-kick in Australian rules football
• Ping or Pinging (noun, verb and adjective): The noise indicative of improper combustion in internal combustion engines

[edit] Other uses

• Ping, a traditional Chinese unit of area equal to about 3.305 square meters, roughly 36 square feet. Its use is limited to real estate in Taiwan, Japan and Korea.
• Ping, an ability in the trading card game Magic: The Gathering
• Ping River, a river in Thailand
• Ping (golf), a brand of golf club
• Guan Ping, the famous son of Guan Yu

[edit] See also

• Pinghua