Look up: ping

1. ping
   (networking, tool) (ping, originally contrived to match submariners' term for the sound of a returned sonar pulse) A program written in 1983 by Mike Muuss (who also wrote TTCP) used to test reachability of destinations by sending them one, or repeated, ICMP echo requests and waiting for replies. Sin...
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2. Ping
   Widely available network connectivity test utility, details ...
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3. ping
   [n] - a river in western Thailand 2. [n] - a sharp high-pitched metallic sound 3. [v] - of car engines, when firing too early 4. [v] - make a short high-pitched sound, as of a bullet striking metal 5. [v] - hit with a pinging noise
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4. PING
   Packet Internet Groper
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5. Ping
   Packet Internet Groper. A utility that forwards data packets to check the quality of a link or verify the connection of a machine to the Internet.
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6. Ping
   A tool that verifies connection to one or more remote hosts.
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7. Ping
   (NETWORK GLOSSARY) Packet internet grouper. Refers to the IOMP echo message and its reply. Often used to test the reachablility of a network device.
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8. Ping
   Packet Internet Groper - about the simplest Internet program - it simply sends an 'Are you there?' type message and reports back how long it took - can be useful to see if you can make contact with another machine, e.g. ping gate.demon.co.uk
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9. ping
   a program useful in testing and debugging local area network/wide area network troubles which sends out an echo and expects a specified host to respond back in a specified time frame Category: News-systems and communications
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10. Ping
    Ping noun [ Probably of imitative origin.] The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.
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11. Ping
    Ping intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Pinged ; present participle & verbal noun Pinging .] To make the sound called ping .
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12. ping
    noun a sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal)
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13. Ping
    Ping River noun a river in western Thailand; a major tributary of the Chao Phraya
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14. Ping
    • (n.) The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air. • (v. i.) To make the sound called ping.
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15. Ping
    Ping is a Chinese girl name. The meaning of the name is `Peace` The name Ping doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Ping seems to be unique!
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16. Ping
    Ping is a computer program that sends a packet over the internet to another computer to see if the remote computer is still responding. If the ping returns to the sending computer the remote computer is still connected.
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17. PING
    Packet Internet Groper. A program used to test whether a particular network destination is online, by sending an Internet control message protocol (ICMP) echo request and waiting for a response.
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18. ping
    To check if a server is running. From the sound that a sonar systems makes in movies, you know, when they are searching for a submarine.
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19. Ping
    Ping is British slang for to urinate.
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20. Ping
    Ping is British slang for to urinate.
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21. Ping
    To ping is a verb often used to describe when a horse is jumping in particularly good style.
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22. Ping
    `Ping` (`Packet Internet Groper`) is a computer network administration utility used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol (IP) network and to measure the round-trip time for messages sent from the originating host to a destination computer. The name comes from active sonar termi...
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23. Ping
    (disambiguation) `Ping` is a computer network tool used to test whether a particular host is reachable across an IP network. `Pinging` is the noise indicative of improper combustion (detonation rather than deflagration) in internal combustion engines. `Ping` may also refer to: Technology: People: Fictional characters: Other: See also:
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24. Ping
    (blogging) In blogging, ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a accessdate=2008-11-30-->--> An XML-RPC signal is sent to one or more "ping servers," which can then generate a list of blogs that have new material. The technology was first introduced by Da...
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25. Ping
    (video gaming) In multiplayer online video games, `ping` refers to the network latency between a player`s computer (client), and either the game server or another client (i.e. peer). This could be reported quantitatively as an average time in milliseconds, or qualitatively as
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