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tip

1. a payment given for services in excess of the standard charge; gratuity

2. a piece of inside information, esp in betting or investing

tip

a glancing hit in cricket

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.

TIP

(relativity)

terminal indecomposable past

tip

i. The extremities of airfoils, such as in wing tips.
ii. The angle of rotation of a reconnaissance camera about an aircraft transverse axis. Also called pitch.

TIP

(1)

Texas Instruments Pascal.

TIP

(2)

A Unix program for interactive communication via serial lines.

Unix manual page: tip(1).

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.

References in periodicals archive ?

Wilkinson is expected to be tipped the wink this week that he is on the plane to New Zealand at the end of this month.

RUGBY UNION: Wilko's back and ready to roar

However Parkes is aware that Souness and the three coaching staff who have followed him to St James' Park might have tipped the wink to the Magpies' stand-in manager John Carver with some insights about Rovers.

Hughes would suit Blackburn, says Parkes

Hot Horse Harry is flying in after a week of fun and games at Punchestown and he's flush after being tipped the wink for Grimes (6-1) on Friday.