Usually means: Network tool for measuring latency.
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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word ping:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. ping: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Ping, ping: Merriam-Webster
  3. ping: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Ping, ping, ping: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ping: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Ping, ping: Vocabulary.com
  7. P'ing, Ping, ping: Wordnik
  8. ping: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Ping, ping: Wiktionary
  10. ping: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ping: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ping: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. PING: Dictionary.com
  14. ping (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. ping: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. PING (golf), PING, Ping (blogging), Ping (disambiguation), Ping (golf), Ping (networking utility), Ping (short story), Ping (social network), Ping (surname), Ping (video game), Ping (video games), Ping (video gaming), Ping, The Ping: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Ping: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. ping: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. ping: Rhymezone
  20. Ping: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. ping: FreeDictionary.org
  22. ping: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Ping: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. BuzzWhack (No longer online)
  3. Dictionary of Management Jargon (No longer online)

Computing (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. ping: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. PING: CCI Computer
  3. PING: Game Dictionary
  4. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  5. CNET Internet Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Ping: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  7. ping: ILC Internet Terms
  8. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  9. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  10. Ping (Packet Internet Groper): Linktionary Networking Glossary
  11. Webopedia (No longer online)
  12. ping: Hacking Lexicon
  13. Technopedia (No longer online)
  14. Ping (Unix), Ping (disambiguation), ping: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ping: Medical dictionary
  3. Ping (Unix): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. PING: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ping, ping, Ping: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. PING: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ping: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See pinged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
noun:  (submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
noun:  (networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
noun:  (text messaging, Internet) An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
noun:  (networking) Latency.
noun:  (video games) A means of highlighting a feature on the game map so that allied players can see it.
noun:  (Wikimedia jargon) A notification.
verb:  To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
verb:  (submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
verb:  (networking) To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
verb:  (by extension) To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
verb:  (colloquial) To flick.
verb:  (colloquial, sports, intransitive) To bounce.
verb:  (colloquial, sports, transitive) To cause something to bounce.
verb:  (colloquial, sports) To call out audibly.
verb:  (colloquial) To penalize.
verb:  (ambitransitive, LGBTQ, slang) To trigger a person's gaydar; to look or act obviously homosexual.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A female given name.

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