Meaning

(electronics) A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen..

Definitions by Sense

1. (electronics) A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.
2. A short sound of a single pitch, usually electronically generated.
3. (by extension) A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal.
4. (Internet, historical) An individual message or document in the Google Wave software framework.
5. (intransitive) To make a short beep sound.
6. (intransitive, informal) To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion.
7. (transitive) Synonym of bleep (“to replace offending words in a broadcast recording with a tone”).
8. (automotive) To apply the throttle briefly when downshifting, to provide a smoother gear transition and prevent wheelspin.

Example Sentences

When the blip began to move up the oscilloscope screen, they followed again.

At 6:45 pm, the chief officer saw a blip on the radar, approximately seven nautical miles away.

Due to the fact that she’d explored over 30% of the forest enemies were now displayed as blips on her map.

Blip..Blip..Blip..Blip / There was that annoying noise again. Anger entered my subconscious as the dream came to an abrupt end.

The most popular event is Joel's computer-based biofeedback game. […] The goal is to move the balloons skyward while avoiding the rockets that the computer shoots toward the balloons. You dodge the rockets by consciously adjusting your muscle tone between relaxation and tension. […] The little "blip" sound that happens when a balloon is shot down becomes a duet with the player. "Blip" "Damn!" "Blip" "Damn!" "Blip" "Damn!"

There's a chance this is just a viral blip, an intermittent spike of low-level virus that just happens in people on successful HIV treatment.

As a cell moves through the aperture it causes a blip (a brief change) in the voltage when the nonconductive cell briefly displaces the conductive medium.

Barack Obama had become exasperated by the propensity of the party establishment to panic at every psephological blip.

Word Forms

• blips
• blipping
• blipped

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