Pip

Pip, PIP, Pips, PIPS, Pipp may refer to:

Common meanings

• The seed of some fruits, such as the orange or tangerine
• Pip (counting), a small but easily countable item, such as the dots on dice or symbols on playing cards
• Pip, a decoration worn on a military uniform to denote rank, such as on British Army officer rank insignia

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 concept in the study of causal structures of spacetime
• Picture-in-picture, a television feature
• Plug-in Prius, a Toyota hybrid electric vehicle
• Pin in paste, a soldering method

Biology and medicine

• Peak inspiratory pressure (P_IP), a setting used in mechanical ventilation
• Plasma membrane intrinsic protein, a class of plant aquaporins
• Prolactin-induced protein, a protein in humans
• Proximal interphalangeal joints, one of two sets of interphalangeal articulations of hand
• Pairwise-invasibility plot in evolutionary invasion analysis
• Psychosis-intermittent hyponatremia-polydipsia (PIP) syndrome, also known as psychogenic polydipsia

Computing

• Peripheral Interchange Program, a file transfer utility under CP/M and several Digital Equipment operating systems
• Point in polygon, a concept in computational geometry
• Policy Information Point, a term used 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, IEC 62439-3 Annex C (L3E2E and L2P2P) known as PIP.

Places

• Pip Cliffs, Graham Land, Antarctica
• Pipp Brook, a tributary of the River Mole in Surrey, England
• IATA code for Pilot Point Airport, Pilot Point, Alaska, United States

Businesses

• Poly Implant Prothèse, a former French firm which made breast implants
• PiP Animation Services, a Canadian animation studio

Finance and management

• Percentage in point, a currency exchange rate fluctuation
• Performance improvement plan, a management technique
• Policy-ineffectiveness proposition, an economic theory

Schools

• Pakistan Institute of Physics, a physics research institute of the University of Engineering and Technology of Pakistan
• Pakistan International Public School and College, a school and college in Pakistan
• Punjab International Public School, a high school in Pakistan

Menschen

• Pip (nickname)
• Pip Carter, British actor
• Pip Courtney, Australian journalist and television presenter
• Pip Simmonds, New Zealand freestyle skier
• Wally Pipp (1893–1965), Major League Baseball first baseman best known for being replaced by Lou Gehrig
• Josef Priller (1915–1961), (nickname Pips) German fighter ace
• Pips, the backup singers in the musical group Gladys Knight & the Pips
• Scroobius Pip (born 1981), alias of rapper David Meads
• Pip (musician) (born 1992), contestant on Season 2 of NBC's TV show The Voice

Regierung

• Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services, a Pakistani government institution

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, in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick
• Peregrin Took, in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy The Lord of the Rings
• Pip, Flinx's pet minidrag in numerous science fiction novels by Alan Dean Foster
• 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
• Pip, an animated chipmunk in the Disney live-action/animated film Enchanted

Other uses

• Personal Independence Payment, a welfare benefit in the United Kingdom
• Battle of the Pips, an incident in World War II
• Puerto Rican Independence Party, a political party
• Providence Initiative for Psychogeographic Studies, an art group
• Personal injury protection, a type of car insurance
• The Pip, the nickname of a clandestine radio station of Russian origin
• Palisades Interstate Parkway, highway in New York and New Jersey, United States
• Peruvian Investigative Police, a plainclothes police unit
• Police Information Point, a kiosk run by British police
• "Pip" (South Park), a 2000 episode of South Park
• Pug impression pad, an object used for the census of tigers
• Partners in Protection, a Canada Border Services Agency program that enlists the cooperation of private industry to enhance border and trade security

See also

• 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-mounted personal computer worn in the popular Fallout video game series