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- noun Plural form of
ping . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
ping .
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Examples
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He said "pings" - signals sent from a cell phone to a provider tower, or vice versa - from the women's phone calls helped narrow the search area.
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DC POLICE DETECTIVE SERVED ON FBI TERRORISM TASK FORCE: Nancy, I think that cell phone pings, that is crucial to this, just as Leonard was saying.
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CHETRY: One of the questions this morning that seems to be coming up is about the cell phone signals, these so-called pings, as they're called, that eventually led police to her body.
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Police say that cell phone signals known as pings led them there.
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Cell phone signals, known as pings, can be used to track a phone's location.
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Cell phone signals, known as pings, can be used to track a phone's location.
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Cell phone signals, known as pings, can be used to track a phone's location.
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Instead, the figure represents the number of individual automated requests, or "pings", for specific location information, made to the Sprint network as part of a series of law enforcement investigations and public safety assistance requests during the past year.
Discourse.net: LEOs Got 8 Million (!) Geo-Location Data from Verizion in a Year
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A triangulation method with a series of "pings" narrows in closer and closer to the phone.
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The more you update you blogs, the more "pings" you get on blog search engines and the like.
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