# 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, a dot on a domino tile, refer Glossary of domino terms

## Arts, entertainment and media

* "Pip" (South Park), a 2000 episode of South Park
* The Pips, the backing 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, diminutive of Philip or Phillipa
* 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, (Pippin) 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 (P$_{IP}$), 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