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  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ping-pong  \Ping"-pong`\,  v.  i. 
  To  play  ping-pong. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  ping-pong 
  n  :  a  game  resembling  tennis  but  played  on  a  table  with  paddles 
  and  a  light  hollow  ball  [syn:  {table  tennis}] 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  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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