: the pulse of sound waves reflected from or emitted by a submerged object in submarine signaling or detection and heard by special apparatus
Baylor … trained his sound unit from one bearing to another, listening for submarines. It threw out a directional sound beam, a series of "pings." These pings, if they hit a solid object like a submarine, reflected back to the operator. William J. Lederer
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: a signal sent from one computer to another across a network for usually diagnostic purposes (as to determine network speed or the status of the target computer)
With Napster, however, all you have to do is type in the name of the song or artist and up will pop 2,745 Phish songs sorted by the host computer's type of modem connection and ping rate. Karl Taro Greenfeld
: to locate (something, such as a submerged object or submarine) by detecting the reflection of a pulse of sound waves : to send out a ping (see pingentry 1 sense 3) in order to locate (something)
We will have to follow this big old boy on the surface and then try to ping him with the sonar when he dives. Corwin Ericson
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a
: to send a signal to (a computer) in order to determine its status or the status of the connecting network
Without realizing what he was doing, he pinged every server in a .gov domain. Next day, his ISP canceled his account; the retribution was swift and uncompromising. Bill Machrone
b
: to send a signal to (a device, such as a cell phone) in order to determine its status or location
Howell officers warned police agencies across the state. … Police pinged the man's phone to get its location. Andrew Ford
c
: to send a usually brief message (such as a text message) or notification to (a person, a person's phone, etc.)
… provides an opportunity to check the time or see who pinged you while you were coming down the mountain …Wired
Example Sentences
Verb Pebbles pinged off the car.
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The basement recreation room includes a pool table, ping pong table and foosball for nighttime entertainment or those occasional rainy days. Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 24 Aug. 2022 Authorities pinged her phone on the morning of Aug. 7, but the phone did not continue to ping that day, Alcaraz said. Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2022 Similar to ping, the traceroute command tells you about the path a network packet takes. Expert Panel®, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022 And, of course, your colleague on the receiving end will hear only one Knock Brush ping instead of 17.Wired, 13 Aug. 2022 Yeah, and the spooky way the guitars ping off one another is cool. Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2022 But there’s no telling what Greek-letter threat will be ping-ponging around the globe by the time winter sets in, or how good a match the shots will be. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 June 2022 And there is no amount of cash, free peanut butter sandwiches or ping pong tables that will change that. Raj Verma, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022 Police were able to ping her cell phone and locate the vehicle -- with her in it -- stopped at a Pearl Road address. John Benson, cleveland, 13 July 2022 See More