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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

See also

• Phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate, also known as PI(3)P
• Phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate, also known as PI(4)P
• Phosphatidylinositol 5-phosphate, also known as PI(5)P
• The Pip-Boy, a wrist computer in the Fallout video games
• All pages with titles containing pips
• All pages with titles containing pip
• Pipp (disambiguation), including pipps

• Disambiguation pages