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Blip   /blɪp/   Listen
Blip

noun
1.
A sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption.  "You can't react to the day-to-day blips" , "Renewed jitters in the wake of a blip in retail sales"
2.
A radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface.  Synonyms: pip, radar target.





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"Blip" Quotes from Famous Books



... blip on the radar, Captain," replied the radar officer. "Looks to me like the jet liner from ...
— On the Trail of the Space Pirates • Carey Rockwell
... a whoop of excitement and everyone crowded around the radarscope. Tom's steel-blue eyes checked the blip. Then he threw a switch which started an automatic plotting machine that had been prepared with the landing plan, and noted that the missile was slightly off the correct path. A new flow of information now began pulsing in as other ships' tracking radars ...
— Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung • Victor Appleton


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