dictionary definitions for "ping-pong"


From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  Ping-Pong
      n 1: a game (trademark Ping-Pong) resembling tennis but played
           on a table with paddles and a light hollow ball [syn:
           table tennis, Ping-Pong]

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 The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008) [foldoc]:

  ping-pong
  
     <architecture> 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)
  


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