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-pongA 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)
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