blips

Noun

blip (plural blips)

1. A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.
   • When the blip began to move up the oscilloscope screen, they followed again.1984 August, Frederick [McCarthy] Forsyth, The Fourth Protocol, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN
2. A short sound of a single pitch, usually electronically generated.
   • Blip..Blip..Blip..Blip / There was that annoying noise again. Anger entered my subconscious as the dream came to an abrupt end.2000, Ken Norton, Marshall Terrill, Mike Fitzgerald, “Prologue”, in Going the Distance, Champaign, Ill.: Sports Publishing, →ISBN, page 2
3. (broadly) A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal.
   • 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.2003, Brett Grodeck, The First Year—HIV: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed (First Year Series), New York, N.Y.: Marlowe, →ISBN
4. (Internet, historical) An individual message or document in the Google Wave software framework.
   • When a participant has full access permissions to a wave, he or she can change the contents of all blips and reply within or after blips.2010, Gina Trapani, Adam Pash, The Complete Guide to Google Wave, page 51

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