Ping

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Ping may refer to:

Technology

• Ping, a pulse of sound in active sonar
• Ping (networking utility), a computer network monitoring tool
• Echo Request message in Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
• iTunes Ping, a social network for music that was once built into Apple iTunes
• Ping (blogging), used for blogs, RSS, and related web services
• PING (software), used for disk cloning or backup

People

• Ping (surname) (平), a Chinese surname
• Bing (Chinese surname) (邴), romanized Ping in Wade–Giles
• Ping (given name)
• Jean Ping (born 1942), Gabonese diplomat and Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union
• Nimrod Ping (1947–2006), politician in Brighton, England
• Frank Steven Ping Bodie (1887–1961), Major League Baseball player
• Panfilo Morena "Ping" Lacson (born 1948), Filipino politician and current member of the Philippine Senate

Fictional characters

• Ping, a domesticated Chinese duck in the illustrated book The Story about Ping, first published in 1933
• Ping, a minor character in Seinfeld, an NBC sitcom
• Ping, a character in the webcomic Megatokyo
• Ping, the disguised identity of Hua Mulan in the animated film Mulan
• Ping the Elastic Man, a comic strip character introduced in The Beano in 1938
• "The machine that goes Ping!", a fictitious obstetric medical device featured in the film Monty Python's Meaning of Life
• Mr. Ping, a character in the Kung Fu Panda franchise
• Professor Ping, a character in the film Barbarella

Other

• Pinging, the noise indicative of improper combustion in internal combustion engines
• Ping (Chinese: 坪), a Taiwanese measure of area
• Ping, an ability in the trading card game Magic: The Gathering
• Ping project, a project of the European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet)
• Ping River, a river in Thailand
• Ping (golf), a manufacturer and brand name of golf equipment
• "Ping" (short story), by Samuel Beckett
• Ping (video gaming), the network latency between computers used in online gaming.
• Ping (bing), a type of Chinese flat bread

See also

• Pinghua, a Chinese dialect
• Ping.fm, a microblog social network
• Table tennis, a racquet sport also known as "ping-pong"
• Template:Ping (redirects to Template:Reply to)
• All pages beginning with "Ping"
• All pages with titles containing Ping