2 the time taken for a computer to connect to another computer or to a server: --
3 a short, often electronic, ringing sound --
4 to send someone an electronic message which they receive on their screen or phone as soon as it is sent: --
5 to test whether an internet connection is working by using a program to contact an address: --
We test the performance of the wireless devices by uploading, downloading, and pinging a remote host.
She demonstrates again not only that this is a constitutional ping-pong, but that the other place is showing cynicism of the highest order.
Even a ping-pong room or a snooker hall came under the heading of tracks.
This ping-pong effect between press and parliament helped to thrust a diplomatic dispute, traditionally the preserve of a select few operating behind closed-doors, into the unfamiliar light of public scrutiny.
The vehicle position for each ping is shown with a ' + ' surrounded by a circle at the bottom edge of each plot.
He was sitting, drawing, at the end of a ping-pong table littered with models.
Two out of the three twentieth-century formations, ping-pong (1900) and hip-hop (1985), show these vowels.
Sections of the scan are examined to find consecutive pings from which consistent principal return ranges are located.
The first task in extracting reliable features is to identify the principal return from the ping data.
