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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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DIP

(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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dip

1. a depression, esp in a landscape

2. the angle of slope of rock strata, fault planes, etc., from the horizontal plane

3. the angle between the direction of the earth's magnetic field and the plane of the horizon; the angle that a magnetic needle free to swing in a vertical plane makes with the horizontal

4. a candle made by plunging a wick repeatedly into wax

5. a momentary loss of altitude when flying

6. (in gymnastics) a chinning exercise on the parallel bars

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