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dip, in agriculture, method of treating animals (chiefly livestock) infested with skin parasites such as mites, ticks, and warbles. The animal is dipped into or forced to swim through a tank filled with an insecticide solution. The chemicals used in dips include lindane, rotenone, coumaphos, and amitraz.

Bibliography

See publications of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.

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(1) (Document Image Processing) See document imaging.

(2) (Dual In-line Package) A common rectangular chip housing with leads (pins) on both long sides. Tiny wires bond the chip to metal leads that wind their way down into spider-like feet that are inserted into a socket or are soldered onto the board. See CDIP, CERDIP and chip package.

The DIP

The DIP package is commonly used to hold small chips, such as main memory, cache memory, A/D and D/A converters.

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1.		DIP - Dual In-line Package.
2.		DIP - Document Image Processing.