Ping

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Ping may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Ping, a domesticated Chinese duck in the illustrated book The Story about Ping, first published in 1933
• Ping, a minor character in Seinfeld, an NBC sitcom
• Ping, a character in the webcomic Megatokyo
• Ping, the alias of Hua Mulan in the animated film Mulan
• Ping the Elastic Man, a comic strip character introduced in The Beano in 1938
• Professor Ping, a character in the film Barbarella
• Ping, a character in Carole Wilkinson's novel Dragonkeeper
• Po (Kung Fu Panda) or Ping Xiao Po, the protagonist of the Kung Fu Panda franchise
  • Mr. Ping, Po's adopted father

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• "Ping" (short story), by Samuel Beckett
• Ping!, a 2000 film featuring Shirley Jones
• Ping, an ability in the trading card game Magic: The Gathering

People

• Ping (given name)
• Ping (surname) (平), a Chinese surname
• Bing (Chinese surname) (邴), romanized Ping in Wade–Giles
• Ping (nickname)

Places

• Ping River, Thailand
• Ping Island, Yongzhou, Hunan, China

Science and technology

Computing

• 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
• Ping.fm, a defunct microblog social network
• iTunes Ping, a social network for music that was once built into Apple iTunes

Other uses in science and technology

• Ping (unit), the Chinese equivalent of pyeong (坪), a Korean unit of area
• Ping, a pulse of sound in active 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

• 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 the Fury and Hecla Strait, Canada

See also

Search for "ping" on Wikipedia.

• All pages with titles beginning with Ping 
• All pages with titles containing Ping
• Pinge (surname)
• PNG (disambiguation)

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This page was last edited on 5 April 2024, at 14:00