Chip
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Food

  • Potato chip
    Potato chip
    Potato chips are thin slices of potato that are deep fried...

    s (Canada and USA usage), a snack food made from potatoes, also known as crisps in the UK and some other English-speaking countries
  • Chips, the UK term for large cuts of potato that are deep fried or baked in an oven, known as french fries
    French fries
    French fries , chips, fries, or French-fried potatoes are strips of deep-fried potato. North Americans tend to refer to any pieces of deep-fried potatoes as fries or French fries, while in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand, long, thinly cut slices of deep-fried potatoes are...

     in Canada and the U.S.
  • Banana chip, a deep fried or dried slice of banana
  • Chocolate chip
    Chocolate chip
    Chocolate chips are small chunks of chocolate. They are often sold in a round, flat-bottomed teardrop shape. They are available in numerous sizes, from large to miniature, but are usually around 1 cm in diameter.-Origin:...

    , small chunks of chocolate, used for making chocolate-chip cookies, among other things
  • Corn chip
    Corn chip
    A corn chip is a snack food made from cornmeal fried in oil or baked, usually in the shape of a small noodle or scoop. Corn chips are thick, rigid and very crunchy...

    , a snack food made from corn
  • Tortilla chip
    Tortilla chip
    A tortilla chip is a snack food made from corn tortillas, which are cut into wedges and then fried . Corn tortillas are made of corn, vegetable oil, salt and water. Although first mass-produced in Los Angeles in the late 1940s, tortilla chips are considered to be a Mexican food, known as tostados...

    , a snack food made from corn

Characters

  • Chip, one of the Chip 'n Dale
    Chip 'n Dale
    Chip and Dale are two chipmunk cartoon characters created in 1943 at Walt Disney Productions. Their names are a pun based on the name "Chippendale"...

     animated chipmunks created by The Walt Disney Company
  • Chip Flagston, son of Hi and Lois
    Hi and Lois
    Hi and Lois is a comic strip about a suburban family. Created by Mort Walker and illustrated by Dik Browne, it debuted on October 18, 1954, distributed by King Features Syndicate.-Characters:...


Games

  • Chip's Challenge
    Chip's Challenge
    Chip's Challenge is a tile-based, puzzle video game for several systems, including the hand-held Atari Lynx, Amiga, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, DOS, and Windows . It has also been ported to the TI-84+ calculator and the TI-89 Titanium...

    , a computer game designed by Chuck sommerville and Tony Krueger

Publications

  • CHIP (magazine)
    CHIP (magazine)
    CHIP is a computer and communications magazine published by the CHIP Holding in 15 countries of Europe and Asia...

    , a German computer magazine
    • CHIP India (magazine)
      Chip-India
      Intelligent Computing CHIP is a monthly Information Technology magazine published by since 2003. It is the Indian edition of the popular German monthly CHIP. CHIP is a registered trademark of Vogel Burda Holding Inc, Germany...

      , Indian edition of German computer magazine CHIP
      CHIP (magazine)
      CHIP is a computer and communications magazine published by the CHIP Holding in 15 countries of Europe and Asia...


Sports

  • Chip timing, Transponder timing in sporting events
  • Chip, a type of football (soccer) shot (see association football)
  • Chip stroke or chip-in, a type of golf shot (see Golf#Stroke mechanics)
  • Chip, mascot of University of Colorado at Boulder
    University of Colorado at Boulder
    The University of Colorado Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado...


Technology

  • ChiP
    Chip
    - Food :* Potato chips , a snack food made from potatoes, also known as crisps in the UK and some other English-speaking countries...

     (ChucK
    ChucK
    ChucK is a concurrent, strongly timed audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance, which runs on Mac OS X, Linux, Microsoft Windows, and iPhone/iPad. It is designed to favor readability and flexibility for the programmer over other considerations such...

     for iPhone/iPad), a programming language
    Programming language
    A programming language is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and/or to express algorithms precisely....

     used for music synthesis
    Synthesizer
    A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

  • Chip, another name for an integrated circuit
    Integrated circuit
    An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit is an electronic circuit manufactured by the patterned diffusion of trace elements into the surface of a thin substrate of semiconductor material...

  • Chip, another name for a microprocessor
    Microprocessor
    A microprocessor incorporates the functions of a computer's central processing unit on a single integrated circuit, or at most a few integrated circuits. It is a multipurpose, programmable device that accepts digital data as input, processes it according to instructions stored in its memory, and...

  • Chip (CDMA)
    Chip (CDMA)
    In digital communications, a chip is a pulse of a direct-sequence spread spectrum code, such as a pseudo-noise code sequence used in direct-sequence code division multiple access channel access techniques....

    , the fundamental unit of transmission in CDMA
  • Chip card (Smart card
    Smart card
    A smart card, chip card, or integrated circuit card , is any pocket-sized card with embedded integrated circuits. A smart card or microprocessor cards contain volatile memory and microprocessor components. The card is made of plastic, generally polyvinyl chloride, but sometimes acrylonitrile...

    ), credit card, payment card or identification card containing an embedded integrated circuit
  • Chipseal
    Chipseal
    Chip seal is a pavement surface treatment that combines a layer of asphalt with a layer of fine aggregate. In the United States, chip seals are typically used on rural roads carrying lower traffic volumes, and the process is often referred to as "asphaltic surface treatment"...

    , a pavement surface treatment
  • Chiptune
    Chiptune
    A chiptune, also known as chip music, is synthesized electronic music often produced with the sound chips of vintage computers and video game consoles, as well as with other methods such as emulation. In the early 1980s, personal computers became cheaper and more accessible than they had previously...

    , music synthesized by a computer sound chip
  • ChIP (Chromatin ImmunoPrecipitation)
    Chromatin immunoprecipitation
    Chromatin Immunoprecipitation is a type of immunoprecipitation experimental technique used to investigate the interaction between proteins and DNA in the cell. It aims to determine whether specific proteins are associated with specific genomic regions, such as transcription factors on promoters or...

    , a molecular biology method to map DNA sites of specific protein-DNA interaction, such as promoters
  • Modchip
    Modchip
    A modchip is a small electronic device used to modify or disable built-in restrictions and limitations of computers, specifically videogame consoles...

    , hardware modification to circumvent DRM systems in game consoles

People

  • Chip Arndt
    Chip Arndt
    Chip Arndt is an American gay activist, best known as a winner of The Amazing Race 4 in 2003 with former partner Reichen Lehmkuhl. The team was the first out gay couple to win a reality television competition...

    , winner of The Amazing Race 4
  • Charles Eustis Bohlen, American diplomat nicknamed "Chip"
  • Chip Carter, son of Jimmy Carter
    Jimmy Carter
    James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...

  • Chip Esten
    Chip Esten
    Charles "Chip" Esten Puskar III is an American comedian, actor and singer known for his appearances on the improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway?....

    , American actor
  • Chip Kidd
    Chip Kidd
    Chip Kidd is an American author, editor, and graphic designer, best known for his book covers.- Early life :Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, Kidd grew up in the Reading suburb of Shillington, strongly influenced by American popular culture...

    , American author
  • Chip tha Ripper, American hip-hop artist

Other

  • Buffalo chip or cow dung
    Cow dung
    Cow dung is the waste product of bovine animal species. These species include domestic cattle , bison , yak and water buffalo. Cow dung is the undigested residue of plant matter which has passed through the animal's gut. The resultant faecal matter is rich in minerals...

    , dried bovine feces
  • Casino token
    Casino token
    Casino tokens are small discs used in lieu of currency in casinos. Colored metal, injection molded plastic or compression molded clay tokens of various denominations are used primarily in table games, as opposed to metal token coins, used primarily in slot machines...

     or poker chip, a token of currency in gambling
  • DNA chip, a synonym for DNA microarray
    DNA microarray
    A DNA microarray is a collection of microscopic DNA spots attached to a solid surface. Scientists use DNA microarrays to measure the expression levels of large numbers of genes simultaneously or to genotype multiple regions of a genome...

  • Foot chip, a type of climbing hold
    Climbing hold
    A climbing hold is a shaped grip that is usually attached to a climbing wall so climbers can grab or step on it. On most walls, climbing holds are arranged in paths, called routes, by specially trained route setters. Climbing holds come in a large array of sizes and shapes to provide different...

  • Paint chip, a piece of dried paint
    Paint
    Paint is any liquid, liquefiable, or mastic composition which after application to a substrate in a thin layer is converted to an opaque solid film. One may also consider the digital mimicry thereof...

  • Woodchip
    Woodchipping
    Woodchipping is the act and industry of chipping wood for pulp, processed wood products, and mulch.-Papermaking:Timber is converted to woodchips and sold, primarily, for pulp production used in paper manufacture...

    , small piece of wood

See also

  • Chips (disambiguation)
  • CHIP (disambiguation)
  • Chipper (disambiguation)
  • Chipping (disambiguation)
  • Crisp (disambiguation)
    Crisp (disambiguation)
    A crisp or potato chip is a thin slice of a potato, deep fried or baked until crisp.Crisp may also refer to:...

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