DIP
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Dip may refer to:
  • The Dip, in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit
    Who Framed Roger Rabbit
    Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy-comedy-noir film directed by Robert Zemeckis and released by Touchstone Pictures. The film combines live action and animation, and is based on Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, which depicts a world in which cartoon characters...

    , a substance which kills animated characters
  • Dip (Catalan myth)
    Dip (Catalan myth)
    In Catalan myth, Dip is an evil, black, hairy dog, an emissary of the Devil, who sucks people's blood. Like other figures associated with demons in Catalan myth, he is lame in one leg. Dip is pictured on the escutcheon of Pratdip.-Sources:...

    , an evil demonic dog that drinks people's blood
  • Dip (dance move)
    Dip (dance move)
    Dips are common to many dance forms .Standard: The flyer usually balances herself. The flyer's body may be horizontal or vertical. There are many grips for bases. The base uses a one-handed grip if flyer is experienced. In performance, flyer may turn her torso sideways toward the audience or toward...

    , a partner dance move
  • Dip (exercise)
    Dip (exercise)
    The dip is an exercise used in strength training. Normal, shoulder-width dips primarily train the triceps, with major synergists being the anterior deltoid, the pectoralis muscles , and the rhomboid muscles of the back...

    , a type of strength training exercise
  • Dip (food)
    Dip (food)
    A dip or dipping sauce is a common condiment for many types of food. Dips are used to add flavor and/or texture to a food, such as pita bread, dumplings, crackers, cut-up raw vegetables, seafood, cubed pieces of meat and cheese, potato chips, tortilla chips, and falafel...

    , a type of sauce into which food is dipped
  • Dipping tobacco
    Dipping tobacco
    Dipping tobacco, traditionally referred to as moist snuff, is a type of finely ground or shredded, moistened smokeless tobacco product. It is commonly and idiomatically known by various terms – most often as dip and sometimes rub or chew...

    , a colloquial name for American moist snuff
  • Magnetic dip
    Magnetic dip
    Magnetic dip or magnetic inclination is the angle made by a compass needle with the horizontal at any point on the Earth's surface. Positive values of inclination indicate that the field is pointing downward, into the Earth, at the point of measurement...

    , the angle made with the horizontal at any point by the Earth's magnetic field
    • Dip circle
      Dip circle
      Dip circles are used to measure the angle between the horizon and the Earth's magnetic field . They were used in surveying, mining and prospecting as well as for the demonstration and study of magnetism....

      , used to measure the angle between magnetic dip and the horizon
  • Strike and dip
    Strike and dip
    Strike and dip refer to the orientation or attitude of a geologic feature. The strike line of a bed, fault, or other planar feature is a line representing the intersection of that feature with a horizontal plane. On a geologic map, this is represented with a short straight line segment oriented...

    , the orientation or attitude of a geologic feature
    • Dip slope
      Dip slope
      A dip slope is a geological formation often created by erosion of tilted strata. Dip slopes are found on homoclinal ridges with one side that is steep and irregular and another side, the dip slope, that is generally planar with a dip parallel to the bedding...

      , a geological term for a slope parallel to the dip
  • Decagonal prism
    Decagonal prism
    In geometry, the decagonal prism is the eighth in an infinite set of prisms, formed by ten square side faces and two regular decagon caps. With twelve faces, it is one of many nonregular dodecahedra.If faces are all regular, it is a semiregular polyhedron....

  • Distributed Information Processing, a defunct company which designed the Atari Portfolio
  • Dual in-line package
    Dual in-line package
    In microelectronics, a dual in-line package is an electronic device package with a rectangular housing and two parallel rows of electrical connecting pins. The package may be through-hole mounted to a printed circuit board or inserted in a socket.A DIP is usually referred to as a DIPn, where n is...

    , a type of integrated circuit packaging

In science and technology

  • Database of Interacting Proteins
    Database of Interacting Proteins
    The catalogs experimentally determined interactions between proteins. It combines information from a variety of sources to create a single, consistent set of protein–protein interactions...

    , a catalog of protein interactions
  • Defective interfering particle
    Defective interfering particle
    Defective interfering particles are virus particles that are missing part or all of their genome. Because of these deletions in their genome, DIPs cannot sustain an infection by themselves. Instead, they depend on co-infection with a suitable helper virus. The helper virus provides the gene...

    , a virus particle that is missing part or all of its genome
  • Deinked pulp, in paper production
  • Diindenoperylene
    Diindenoperylene
    Diindenoperylene is an organic semiconductor which receives attention because of its potential application in optoelectronics and electronics . DIP is a planar perylene derivative with two indeno-groups attached to opposite sides of the perylene core. Its chemical formula is C32H16, the full...

    , an organic semiconductor
  • Distal interphalangeal joint (disambiguation), in anatomy

In computer science and Electrical Engineering

  • Dependency inversion principle
    Dependency inversion principle
    In object-oriented programming, the dependency inversion principle refers to a specific form of decoupling where conventional dependency relationships established from high-level, policy-setting modules to low-level, dependency modules are inverted for the purpose of rendering high-level modules...

     or Inversion of Control
    Inversion of Control
    In software engineering, Inversion of Control is an abstract principle describing an aspect of some software architecture designs in which the flow of control of a system is inverted in comparison to procedural programming....

    , in software architecture design
  • Device independent pixel
    Device independent pixel
    A Device independent pixel is a point in a co-ordinate system held by a computer and represents an abstraction of a pixel for use by an application that an underlying system then converts to physical pixels....

     (also: density-independent pixel)
  • Digital image processing
    Digital image processing
    Digital image processing is the use of computer algorithms to perform image processing on digital images. As a subcategory or field of digital signal processing, digital image processing has many advantages over analog image processing...

  • Document Image Processing
  • Dual in-line package
    Dual in-line package
    In microelectronics, a dual in-line package is an electronic device package with a rectangular housing and two parallel rows of electrical connecting pins. The package may be through-hole mounted to a printed circuit board or inserted in a socket.A DIP is usually referred to as a DIPn, where n is...

    , a package type for integrated circuits
    • DIP switch
      DIP switch
      DIP switches are manual electric switches that are packaged in a group in a standard dual in-line package...

      , a number of electric switches in a dual in-line package
  • Director's IP address, a term used by the Linux Virtual Server
    Linux Virtual Server
    Linux Virtual Server is an advanced load balancing solution for Linux systems. It is an open source project started by Wensong Zhang in May 1998...


Other uses

  • Diploma
    Diploma
    A diploma is a certificate or deed issued by an educational institution, such as a university, that testifies that the recipient has successfully completed a particular course of study or confers an academic degree. In countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia, the word diploma refers to...

    , abbreviation for qualification of diploma
  • Debtor in possession
    Debtor in possession
    A debtor in possession in United States bankruptcy law is a person or corporation who has filed a bankruptcy petition, but remains in possession of property upon which a creditor has a lien or similar security interest...

    , a type of financing
  • Direct Income Payments, agricultural support payments in the European Union
  • Drug Interventions Programme, run by the government of the United Kingdom
  • Drunk in public
    Drunk in Public
    Drunk in Public is the first CD released by American comedian Ron White. It was released on November 3, 2003 on the Hip-O Records label. The album has been certified gold by the RIAA.-Track listing:All tracks written by White.# "Sunglasses" - 2:05...

    , or public intoxication, a summary offense in many countries
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