Ping - How To Improve Ping

Ping may refer to:

Science and Technology

• Ping, a pulse of sound in active sonar
• Pinging, the noise indicative of improper combustion in internal combustion engines
• Ping (Chinese: 坪), a Taiwanese measure of area
• Ping project, a project of the European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet)

Computing

• 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
• Ping (video gaming), the network latency between computers used in online gaming.

People

• Ping (surname) (å¹³), a Chinese surname
• Bing (Chinese surname) (é‚´), romanized Ping in Wadeâ€"Giles
• Ping (given name)
• Jean Ping (born 1942), Gabonese diplomat and Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union
• Nimrod Ping (1947â€"2006), politician in Brighton, England
• Frank Steven Ping Bodie (1887â€"1961), Major League Baseball player
• Panfilo Morena "Ping" Lacson (born 1948), Filipino politician and current member of the Philippine Senate

Arts and entertainment

• "Ping" (short story), by Samuel Beckett
• Ping!, a 2000 film featuring Shirley Jones
• Ping, an ability in the trading card game Magic: The Gathering

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

Places

• Ping, Washington, a community in the United States
• Ping River, a river in Thailand

Other

• Ping (golf), a manufacturer and brand name of golf equipment
• Bing (bread), also written as "ping", a type of Chinese flat bread