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Pip, PIP, Pips, PIPS or Pipp may refer to:

Common meanings

  • The seed of some fruits, such as the orange or tangerine
  • Pip (counting), a small but easily countable item, such as the dots on dice or symbols on playing cards, for example:
    • Pip (dominoes), one of the dots on domino tiles
  • 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.

Art, media and entertainment

Finance and management

People

  • 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 Courtney, Australian journalist and television presenter
  • Pip Simmonds, New Zealand freestyle skier
  • Scroobius Pip (born 1981), alias of rapper David Meads
  • Wally Pipp (1893–1965), Major League Baseball first baseman best known for being replaced by Lou Gehrig
  • Josef Priller (1915–1961), German fighter ace nicknamed "Pips"
  • The Pips, the backup singers in the musical group Gladys Knight & the 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, a Moby-Dick character
  • Peregrin Took, 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.

Places

  • Battle of the Pips, an incident in World War II
  • Palisades Interstate Parkway, highway in New York and New Jersey, United States
  • Pip Cliffs, Graham Land, Antarctica
  • Pipp Brook, a tributary of the River Mole in Surrey, England
  • IATA code for Pilot Point Airport, Pilot Point, Alaska, United States

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
  • 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 Social Security Benefit

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

  • Peak inspiratory pressure (PIP), 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

See also

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