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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
ping-pong \ping"-pong`\, n. [Imitative.]
1. An indoor modification of lawn tennis played with small
bats, or battledores, and a very light, hollow, celluloid
ball, on a large table divided across the middle by a net.
Also called
table tennis
. [[originally a trade name]
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
2. A size of photograph a little larger than a postage stamp.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Ping-pong \Ping"-pong`\, v. i.
1. To play ping-pong.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. to bounce back and forth, in the manner of a ping-pong
ball.
[PJC]
WordNet
Ping-pong
n : a game (trade name Ping-Pong) resembling tennis but played
on a table with paddles and a light hollow ball [syn: {table
tennis}]
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ping-pong
A phenomenon which can occur in a
multi-processor
system with
private caches
where two
processors are alternately caching a shared location. Each
time one writes to it, it invalidates the other's copy.
(1995-12-29)
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