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[PIP] PIP, PIP, PIPS, PIPS, and similar, may refer to: [TOC right]
** Common meanings
- Pip, colloquial name for the star(s) worn on military uniform as part of rank badge, as in the British Army officer rank insignia or with many Commonwealth police agencies - The seed of some fruits - Pip (counting) , a small but easily countable item, such as the dots on dice or symbols on playing cards - Pip, a dot on a domino tile, refer Glossary of domino terms
** Arts, entertainment and media
- "Pip" ( _South Park_ ) , a 2000 episode of _South Park_ - The Pips, the backing singers in the musical group Gladys Knight & the Pips - Providence Initiative for Psychogeographic Studies , an art group - PiP Animation Services , a Canadian animation studio - The Pip , the nickname of a clandestine radio station of Russian origin - BBC Pips or _The Pips_ , a timing signal broadcast by the BBC
** Finance and management
- Percentage in point , a currency exchange rate fluctuation - Performance improvement plan , a management technique - Personal Independence Payment , a welfare benefit in the United Kingdom - Personal injury protection , a type of car insurance - Policy-ineffectiveness proposition , an economic theory
** People
- Pip, diminutive of Philip or Phillipa - Pip (nickname) , a list of people with the nickname - Pip (musician) (born 1992), contestant on Season 2 of NBC's TV show _The Voice_ - Pip Devonshire (born 1966), New Zealand weaver - Pip Millett , English musician Georgia Willacy - Pip Simmonds , New Zealand freestyle skier - Scroobius Pip (born 1981), alias of rapper David Meads - Josef Priller (1915–1961), German fighter ace nicknamed "Pips"
** Fictional characters
- Pip ( _Great Expectations_ ) , Philip Pirrip from the Charles Dickens' novel _Great Expectations_ - Pip Pirrup , a student at South Park Elementary in _South Park_ - Pip ( _Moby-Dick_ character) - Peregrin Took , (Pippin) in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy _The Lord of the Rings_ - Pip, a major character in _The Railway Series_ of books - Pip, in the British newspaper strip cartoon _Pip, Squeak and Wilfred_ - Pip ( _Chrono Cross_ ) - Pip the Troll , a Marvel Comics character - Pip, in the _Grailquest_ gamebook series - Pip Bernadotte , in the manga _Hellsing_ - Pip, an _Animaniacs_ character - Pip, in the Nickelodeon animated show _Back at the Barnyard_ - Pip, a nickname of Chiana, in the Australian television series _Farscape_ - Pip, in the film _The Halloween Tree_ - Pip, a persona featured on the Tori Amos album _American Doll Posse_ - Pips, a fictional fairy in the animated film _FernGully: The Last Rainforest_ and its sequel - Pip, an animated chipmunk in the Disney live-action/animated film _Enchanted_ - Pip, an otter in the television series _Bear in the Big Blue House_ - Pip the Penguin, in the animated series _T.O.T.S._ - Pip, from _The Twilight Zone_ (1959) episode " A Nice Place to Visit "
** Schools
- Pakistan International Public School and College (PIPS), a private residential school in Abbottabad, Pakistan - Pakistan Institute of Physics , a physics research institute of the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore in Pakistan
** Politics and government
- Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services , a Pakistani government institution - Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies , a Pakistani non-governmental organization - Police information point , a kiosk run by British police - Peruvian Investigative Police , a plainclothes police unit - Puerto Rican Independence Party , a political party - Personal Independence Payment , a British welfare benefit
** Science and technology
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- Greenwich Time Signal , popularly known as the pips - Predicted impact point , the location at which a projectile is expected to strike - Profile ignition pickup , a term in automotive technology - Proper indecomposable past set , a causal relation in a Lorentzian manifold - Picture-in-picture , a video stream playing within an inset window of a TV or device screen
*** Biology and medicine
- Peak inspiratory pressure (P <sub> IP </sub> ), in mechanical ventilation - Plasma membrane intrinsic protein, a class of plant aquaporins - Poly Implant Prothèse , a former French breast implants manufacturer - Polymerization induced phase separation - Prolactin-induced protein , a protein in humans - Proximal interphalangeal joints, interphalangeal joints of the hand - Pairwise-invasibility plot in evolutionary invasion analysis - Psychosis-intermittent hyponatremia-polydipsia (PIP) syndrome - Pug impression pad , an object used for the census of tigers
*** Computing
- Peripheral Interchange Program , a DEC and CP/M file transfer utility - Point in polygon , a concept in computational geometry - Policy Information Point , in eXtensible Access Control Markup Language - Private Internet Protocol - pip (package manager) , a Python package installer - P.I.P.S. Is POSIX on Symbian , known as P.I.P.S. - Precision Time Protocol Industry Profile , an IEC 62439-3 standard
** Other uses
- Battle of the Pips , an incident in World War II - Palisades Interstate Parkway , a highway in New York and New Jersey, United States - Pip Cliffs , Graham Land, Antarctica - IATA code for Pilot Point Airport , Pilot Point, Alaska, United States
** See also
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- Phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate , also known as PI(3)P - Phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate , also known as PI(4)P - Phosphatidylinositol 5-phosphate , also known as PI(5)P - The Pip-Boy, a wrist computer in the _Fallout_ video games - [pips] - [pip] - Pipp (disambiguation) , including pipps [Disambiguation]