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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 the other members in the conference.

(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.