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  • abbreviation television picture-in-picture - A television technology allowing a second channel to be displayed in a small rectangle as an onscreen overlay over the primary channel being displayed.

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Examples

  • Devised by Harry Oldfield, inventor of various alternative diagnostic and therapeutic devices, PIP is described as an energy field imaging system that can show the body's aura, chakras, congestion and blockages in the meridians, and so on.

    Pseudocolour gives you the PIP Ray Girvan 2005

  • But even some believers in such techniques point out that PIP is extremely sensitive to position and ambient light.

    Pseudocolour gives you the PIP Ray Girvan 2005

  • The simplest hypothesis: PIP is wishful interpretation of the brightness levels in a picture due to ordinary optics.

    Pseudocolour gives you the PIP Ray Girvan 2005

  • His work has been shown in PIP Photo Festival, DongGang Photo Festival, and World Photojournalism Festival (Tops).

    About this project and its participants 2008

  • Under the terms of the Swiss bank's so-called performance-incentive plan, known as PIP II, Mr. Dougan and other top managers won't see any of their PIP awards convert to stock because the bank's shares have sputtered below 47 francs since January, which is the average the stock needed to maintain to activate the payouts.

    Credit Suisse CEO's Bonus Blues Katharina Bart 2011

  • The real unanswered question concerning no-fault is: If the purpose of no-fault insurance is to reduce premiums paid by policyholders by reducing the expenses of the insurance companies, why then do you have to pay an additional premium, sometimes called PIP personal injury protection, in order to get the coverage?

    MORE WEALTH WITHOUT RISK CHARLES J. GIVENS 1995

  • The real unanswered question concerning no-fault is: If the purpose of no-fault insurance is to reduce premiums paid by policyholders by reducing the expenses of the insurance companies, why then do you have to pay an additional premium, sometimes called PIP personal injury protection, in order to get the coverage?

    MORE WEALTH WITHOUT RISK CHARLES J. GIVENS 1995

  • France has had reports of eight cases of cancer in women with breast implants made by PIP, which is accused of using industrial-grade silicone normally used in anything from computers to cookware.

    Reuters: Top News 2011

  • Morgan, yes, there was an episode called PIP, starring jack Klugman and Billy Mumy, where the father see's his son young again, at an amusement park, knowing that he was killed in a war. ska2682 - Posted 6 / 13 / 2007

    Grassy Knoll Institute 2008

  • OWEN "PIP" BRENNAN, KREWE OF BACCHUS CAPTAIN: We had to show the country and the rest of the world that, yes, we're on our knees, but we're not dead and buried.

    CNN Transcript Feb 28, 2006 2006

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