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PIP

(1) (Picture-In-Picture) Viewing a small video window in the middle of a full-screen video display. Although widely used for TV, it is also used in videoconferencing to see how you appear to others in the conference. See picture-in-picture.

(2) (Partner Interface Process) See RosettaNet.

(3) (Peripheral Interchange Program) A CP/M utility program that was used to copy files.

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pip¹

1. the seed of a fleshy fruit, such as an apple or pear

2. any of the segments marking the surface of a pineapple

3. a rootstock or flower of the lily of the valley or certain other plants

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pip²

1. a short high-pitched sound, a sequence of which can act as a time signal, esp on radio

2. a radar blip

3. 

a. a spot or single device, such as a spade, diamond, heart, or club on a playing card

b. any of the spots on dice or dominoes

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pip³

a contagious disease of poultry characterized by the secretion of thick mucus in the mouth and throat

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pip [pip]

(electronics)

blip

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Pip

how orphan Philip Pirrup says his name. [Br. Lit.: Great Expectations]

See : Diction, Faulty

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Pip

Philip Pirrip, orphaned as an infant. [Br. Lit.: Great Expectations]

See : Orphan

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(tool)

PIP - Peripheral Interchange Program. A program on CP/M, RSX-11, RSTS/E, TOPS-10, and OS/8 (derived from a utility on the PDP-6) that was used for file copying (and in OS/8 and RT-11 for just about every other file operation you might want to do). It is said that when the program was written, during the development of the PDP-6 in 1963, it was called ATLATL ("Anything, Lord, to Anything, Lord"; this played on the Nahuatl word "atlatl" for a spear-thrower, with connotations of utility and primitivity that were no doubt quite intentional). See also BLT, dd, cat.