ping

Examples

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• The researchers also mapped the canyon using sonar pings, revealing "a noticeable smoothing of bottom topography," they write.

  Blog text (17)

• Here we have two ping requests and then two responses.

• Your cell phone is delivering information to apps that are collecting that ping.

  2000 Mules (2022)

• The familiar Unix ping program does just that.

  Blog text (23)

• Last ping time and last ping ID are intended to be used as part of a keep-alive protocol.

  Academic text (2011)

• I wanted to get an idea of how many servers were running, so I pushed an update that has each server ping one of my servers once a minute.

  Blog text (1)

• The network administrator issued a ping to test the connection between the two servers.

• To diagnose the issue, he ran several ping tests to measure the response time of the network.

Synonyms

L

latency

vsping

• Specialized

11 6.8

Delay before a device or program responds

is an active test signal that measures connection and response time

Compounds

P

ping pong

23 1.1

A game on a table with a net where players hit a small ball with paddles

P

Ping-Pong

15 1.6

A game like tennis played on a table using small paddles and a light ball

P

ping-pong ball

7 1.0

A small, light, hollow plastic ball used in table tennis

P

ping-pong table

5 2.1

A table for playing table tennis with a net in the middle

A

aerial ping pong

• Informal

9.7

A casual game where players hit balloons or flying discs in the air

P

Ping River

3.8

A river in western Thailand that joins the Chao Phraya River

P

popty ping

• UK

9.9

A small kitchen machine that heats food quickly

How Fast

real-time processing

• Specialized

3.6

ping

• Specialized

9 3.4

latency

• Specialized

11 6.8

lag

46 4.1

delay

434 1.3

Surface Forms

Etymology