English Dictionary
ping-pong
n : a game resembling tennis but played on a table with paddles
and a light hollow ball [syn: {table tennis}]
English Computing Dictionary
ping-pong
A phenomenon which can occur in a multi-processor system with private caches where two
processors are alternately caching a shared location. Each
time one writes to it it invalidates the other's copy.
(1995-12-29)