Ping-pong

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  ping-pong \ping"-pong`\, n. [Imitative.]
     1. An indoor modification of lawn tennis played with small
        bats, or battledores, and a very light, hollow, celluloid
        ball, on a large table divided across the middle by a net.
        Also called {table tennis}. [[originally a trade name]
        [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]


  
     2. A size of photograph a little larger than a postage stamp.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ping-pong \Ping"-pong`\, v. i.
     1. To play ping-pong.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. to bounce back and forth, in the manner of a ping-pong
        ball.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Ping-Pong
       n : a game (trade name Ping-Pong) resembling tennis but played
           on a table with paddles and a light hollow ball [syn: {table
           tennis}]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  ping-pong
       
           A phenomenon which can occur in a
          {multi-processor} system with {private caches} where two
          processors are alternately caching a shared location.  Each
          time one writes to it, it invalidates the other's copy.
       
          (1995-12-29)