tip

tip

¹

1. a payment given for services in excess of the standard charge; gratuity

2. a piece of inside information, esp in betting or investing

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tip

²

a glancing hit in cricket

Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

tip

[tip]

(design engineering)

A piece of material secured to and differing from a cutter tooth or blade.

(electricity)

The contacting part at the end of a phone plug.

(electronics)

A small protuberance on the envelope of an electron tube, resulting from the closing of the envelope after evacuation.

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TIP

(relativity)

terminal indecomposable past

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

tip

i. The extremities of airfoils, such as in wing tips.
ii. The angle of rotation of a reconnaissance camera about an aircraft transverse axis. Also called pitch.

An Illustrated Dictionary of Aviation Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved

TIP

(1)

Texas Instruments Pascal.

TIP

(2)

A Unix program for interactive communication via serial lines.

Unix manual page: tip(1).

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TIP

(Trouble In Paradise) A freeware program from Gibson Research Corporation, Laguna Hills, CA (www.grc.com) that checks the health of Zip and Jaz drives. See click of death. See also tip and ring.

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