Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A device used underwater to produce pulses of sound, as for an echo sounder or a locator device.
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- noun A device that emits a short, high-pitched sound bust (i.e. goes, "
ping !") such as insonar or otherecho location systems. - noun A device that
periodically emits asignal that can be monitored to permit movement tracking. - noun A computer
program that sends aping message over anetwork . - noun A user of a ping program; one who pings.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a pulse generator used for echo sounding in sonar
Etymologies
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Examples
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Attached to each voice recorder is a white tube called a pinger, because when it is dropped in water, it starts to accepted out a sound, a ping, every second.
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You can see the incision on its abdomen where Richard implanted a radio tracking device - aka "pinger" and sewed it up.
pics from the coral sea WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2008
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And not only do we get to see the game in action - and it's looking pretty good - but we get to see a handful of new gameplay elements, like stealth takedowns, the new alien race in action, and the big boss that was revealed to us in the last trailer, the 'pinger'.
Atomic 2010
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Arslanian said it is vital to locate a small beacon called a "pinger" that should be attached to the cockpit voice and data recorders, now presumed to be deep in the Atlantic.
unknown title 2009
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Arslanian said it is vital to locate a small beacon called a "pinger" that should be attached to the cockpit voice and data recorders, now presumed to be deep in the Atlantic.
unknown title 2009
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A battery-operated sonar "pinger," 4 inches long and about an inch in diameter, should already have started sending out acoustic signals from the ocean bottom about once every second.
unknown title 2009
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The boxes emit signals from a "pinger," but those will start to fade after 30 days.
The Seattle Times 2009
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Arslanian said it is vital to locate a small beacon called a "pinger" that should be attached to the cockpit voice and data recorders, now presumed to be deep in the Atlantic.
unknown title 2009
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Arslanian said it is vital to locate a small beacon called a "pinger" that should be attached to the cockpit voice and data recorders, now presumed to be deep in the Atlantic.
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Arslanian said it is vital to locate a small beacon called a "pinger" that should be attached to the cockpit voice and data recorders, now presumed to be deep in the Atlantic.
Winnipeg Sun 2009
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