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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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tip¹

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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tip²

a glancing hit in cricket

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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

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1.		TIP - Texas Instruments Pascal.
2.		TIP - A Unix program for interactive communication via serial lines. Unix manual page: tip(1).