Ping
Appearance
Pingmay refer to:
Arts and entertainment
[edit]Fictional characters
[edit]- Ping, a domesticated Chinese duck in the illustrated bookThe Story about Ping,first published in 1933
- Ping,a minor character inSeinfeld,an NBC sitcom
- Ping, acharacter in the webcomicMegatokyo
- Pingg, a character fromPingu.
- Ping, the alias of Hua Mulan in the animated filmMulan
- Ping the Elastic Man,a comic strip character introduced inThe Beanoin 1938
- Professor Ping, a character in the filmBarbarella
- Ping, a character in Carole Wilkinson's novelDragonkeeper
- Po (Kung Fu Panda)or Ping Xiao Po, the protagonist of the Kung Fu Panda franchise
- Mr. Ping, Po'sadopted father
Other uses in arts and entertainment
[edit]- "Ping" (short story),by Samuel Beckett
- Ping!,a 2000 film featuringShirley Jones
- Ping, an ability in the trading card gameMagic: The Gathering
People
[edit]- Ping (given name)
- Ping (surname)( bình ), a Chinese surname
- Bing (Chinese surname)( bỉnh ), romanized Ping in Wade–Giles
- Ping (nickname)
Places
[edit]- Ping River,Thailand
- Ping Island,Yongzhou, Hunan, China
Science and technology
[edit]Computing
[edit]- Ping (blogging),used for blogs, RSS, and related web services
- Ping (networking utility),a computer network monitoring tool
- Ping (video games),the network latency between computers used in online gaming
- Mention (blogging),a reference to a user profile, especially called a "ping" when this delivers a notification sound
- Ping.fm,a defunct microblog social network
- iTunes Ping,a social network for music that was once built into Apple iTunes
- Ping Identity,an American software company
Other uses in science and technology
[edit]- Ping (unit),the Chinese equivalent of pyeong ( bình ), a Korean unit of area
- Ping, a pulse of sound inactive sonar
- Ping project,a project of the European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet)
- Pinging,a noise indicative of improper combustion in internal combustion engines
Other uses
[edit]- Ping (golf),a manufacturer and brand name of golf equipment
- Bing (bread),also written as "ping", a type of Chinese flat bread
- "The Ping", a phenomenon present in theFury and Hecla Strait,Canada
See also
[edit]Search for"ping"on Wikipedia.