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  • noun Plural form of ping.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ping.

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Examples

  • He said "pings" - signals sent from a cell phone to a provider tower, or vice versa - from the women's phone calls helped narrow the search area.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2009

  • DC POLICE DETECTIVE SERVED ON FBI TERRORISM TASK FORCE: Nancy, I think that cell phone pings, that is crucial to this, just as Leonard was saying.

    CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2008 2008

  • CHETRY: One of the questions this morning that seems to be coming up is about the cell phone signals, these so-called pings, as they're called, that eventually led police to her body.

    CNN Transcript Jun 7, 2007 2007

  • Police say that cell phone signals known as pings led them there.

    CNN Transcript Jun 7, 2007 2007

  • Cell phone signals, known as pings, can be used to track a phone's location.

    KCTV5.com - News 2009

  • Cell phone signals, known as pings, can be used to track a phone's location.

    LJWorld.com stories: News 2009

  • Cell phone signals, known as pings, can be used to track a phone's location.

    unknown title 2009

  • Instead, the figure represents the number of individual automated requests, or "pings", for specific location information, made to the Sprint network as part of a series of law enforcement investigations and public safety assistance requests during the past year.

    Discourse.net: LEOs Got 8 Million (!) Geo-Location Data from Verizion in a Year 2009

  • A triangulation method with a series of "pings" narrows in closer and closer to the phone.

    Joanne D'Antonio: Sally Menke Inspires a New Rescue Effort Joanne D 2010

  • The more you update you blogs, the more "pings" you get on blog search engines and the like.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Andrew Beckner 2007

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