pips
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/pɪps/
English
Definitions
noun
- Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
- Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression.
noun
- A pippin, seed of any kind.
- Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
- (WW I, signalese) P in RAF phonetic alphabet.
noun
- One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
- (public service) One of the stars worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.
- A spot; a speck.
- A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
noun
- One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment if he is to continue his call.
noun
- (currency trading) The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.