Pip

Pip, PIP, Pips, PIPS, and similar, may refer to:

Common meanings

 * Pip, colloquial name for the star(s) worn on military uniform as part of rank badge, as in the British Army officer rank insignia or with many Commonwealth police agencies
 * The seed of some fruits
 * Pip (counting), a small but easily countable item, such as the dots on dice or symbols on playing cards
 * Pip (dominoes), a dot on a domino tile

Arts, entertainment and media

 * "Pip" (South Park), a 2000 episode of South Park
 * The Pips, the backup singers in the musical group Gladys Knight & the Pips
 * Providence Initiative for Psychogeographic Studies, an art group
 * PiP Animation Services, a Canadian animation studio
 * The Pip, the nickname of a clandestine radio station of Russian origin
 * BBC Pips or The Pips, a timing signal broadcast by the BBC

Finance and management

 * Percentage in point, a currency exchange rate fluctuation
 * Performance improvement plan, a management technique
 * Personal Independence Payment, a welfare benefit in the United Kingdom
 * Personal injury protection, a type of car insurance
 * Policy-ineffectiveness proposition, an economic theory

People

 * Pip (nickname), a list of people with the nickname
 * Pip (musician) (born 1992), contestant on Season 2 of NBC's TV show The Voice
 * Pip Devonshire (born 1966), New Zealand weaver
 * Pip Millett, English musician Georgia Willacy
 * Pip Simmonds, New Zealand freestyle skier
 * Scroobius Pip (born 1981), alias of rapper David Meads
 * Josef Priller (1915–1961), German fighter ace nicknamed "Pips"

Fictional characters

 * Pip (Great Expectations), Philip Pirrip from the Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations
 * Pip Pirrup, a student at South Park Elementary in South Park
 * Pip (Moby-Dick character)
 * Peregrin Took, in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy The Lord of the Rings
 * Pip, a major character in The Railway Series of books
 * Pip, in the British newspaper strip cartoon Pip, Squeak and Wilfred
 * Pip (Chrono Cross)
 * Pip the Troll, a Marvel Comics character
 * Pip, in the Grailquest gamebook series
 * Pip Bernadotte, in the manga Hellsing
 * Pip, an Animaniacs character
 * Pip, in the Nickelodeon animated show Back at the Barnyard
 * Pip, a nickname of Chiana, in the Australian television series Farscape
 * Pip, in the film The Halloween Tree
 * Pip, a persona featured on the Tori Amos album American Doll Posse
 * Pips, a fictional fairy in the animated film FernGully: The Last Rainforest and its sequel
 * Pip, an animated chipmunk in the Disney live-action/animated film Enchanted
 * Pip, an otter in the television series Bear in the Big Blue House
 * Pip the Penguin, in the animated series T.O.T.S.
 * Pip, from The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "A Nice Place to Visit"

Schools

 * Pakistan International Public School and College (PIPS), a private residential school in Abbottabad, Pakistan
 * Pakistan Institute of Physics, a physics research institute of the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore in Pakistan

Politics and government

 * Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services, a Pakistani government institution
 * Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies, a Pakistani non-governmental organization
 * Police information point, a kiosk run by British police
 * Peruvian Investigative Police, a plainclothes police unit
 * Puerto Rican Independence Party, a political party
 * Personal Independence Payment, a British welfare benefit

Science and technology

 * Greenwich Time Signal, popularly known as the pips
 * Predicted impact point, the location at which a projectile is expected to strike
 * Profile ignition pickup, a term in automotive technology
 * Proper indecomposable past set, a causal relation in a Lorentzian manifold
 * Picture-in-picture, a video stream playing within an inset window of a TV or device screen

Biology and medicine

 * Peak inspiratory pressure (PIP), in mechanical ventilation
 * Plasma membrane intrinsic protein, a class of plant aquaporins
 * Poly Implant Prothèse, a former French breast implants manufacturer
 * Polymerization induced phase separation
 * Prolactin-induced protein, a protein in humans
 * Proximal interphalangeal joints, interphalangeal joints of the hand
 * Pairwise-invasibility plot in evolutionary invasion analysis
 * Psychosis-intermittent hyponatremia-polydipsia (PIP) syndrome
 * Pug impression pad, an object used for the census of tigers

Computing

 * Peripheral Interchange Program, a DEC and CP/M file transfer utility
 * Point in polygon, a concept in computational geometry
 * Policy Information Point, in eXtensible Access Control Markup Language
 * Private Internet Protocol
 * pip (package manager), a Python package installer
 * P.I.P.S. Is POSIX on Symbian, known as P.I.P.S.
 * Precision Time Protocol Industry Profile, an IEC 62439-3 standard

Other uses

 * Battle of the Pips, an incident in World War II
 * Palisades Interstate Parkway, a highway in New York and New Jersey, United States
 * Pip Cliffs, Graham Land, Antarctica
 * IATA code for Pilot Point Airport, Pilot Point, Alaska, United States