- Clearing House Interbank Payments System
The Clearing House Interbank Payments System is the main privately held clearing house for large-value transactions in the United States, settling well over US$1 trillion a day in around 250,000 interbank payments. Together with the Fedwire Funds Service , CHIPS forms the primary U.S...
, a privately held clearing house for large-value transactions in the United States
- CHiPs
CHiPs is an American television drama series produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1977 to June 17, 1983. CHiPs followed the lives of two motorcycle police officers of the California Highway Patrol...
, a television series about the California Highway PatrolThe California Highway Patrol is an agency of the U.S. State of California with patrol jurisdiction over all California highways. The CHP also acts as the state police....
(1977-1983)
- CHiPs '99
CHiPs '99 is a movie reunion of the 1977-1983 American television series, CHiPs. It was directed by Jon Cassar and shown on Turner Network Television in the USA on October 27 1998.- Cast :*Larry Wilcox as Capt...
, the television reunion movie (1998)
- The Chips
The Chips were a short-lived New York doo-wop vocal group consisting of teenage friends Charles Johnson , Nathaniel Epps , Paul Fulton , Sammy Strain and Shedrick Lincoln ....
a short-lived New York doo-wop band from the 1950s
- Chips (band)
Chips was a Swedish country and pop group, formed in 1979 by Kikki Danielsson and Lasse Holm, and split in 1983.Chips finished 4th in the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1980 with the song "Mycke' mycke' mer", with Lars Westman, Lisa Magnusson, Mats Rådberg and Monica Silverstrand as background singers...
, a Swedish pop and country group
- Chips (album)
Chips is a 1980 album from the Swedish pop and country group Chips. It was the debut album from the group.-Side A:#A Little Bit of Loving#Sympathy#Weekend#So Long Sally#Starry Night#Paris-Side B:#I Remember High School#Sensation#Don't Cry no More...
, an album by the same group
- Ch!pz
Ch!pz is a pop music band from the Netherlands. With catchy lyrics, four number 1 singles in the Netherlands, they target an especially young audience. The group was formed in 2003, after several rounds of tryouts for the Fox Kids Network. The members of Ch!pz are:*Rach-L *C!lla Ch!pz is a pop...
, a Dutch band popular in The Netherlands and in some European countries
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Banking
- Clearing House Interbank Payments System
The Clearing House Interbank Payments System is the main privately held clearing house for large-value transactions in the United States, settling well over US$1 trillion a day in around 250,000 interbank payments. Together with the Fedwire Funds Service , CHIPS forms the primary U.S...
, a privately held clearing house for large-value transactions in the United States
Entertainment
- CHiPs
CHiPs is an American television drama series produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1977 to June 17, 1983. CHiPs followed the lives of two motorcycle police officers of the California Highway Patrol...
, a television series about the California Highway PatrolThe California Highway Patrol is an agency of the U.S. State of California with patrol jurisdiction over all California highways. The CHP also acts as the state police....
(1977-1983)
- CHiPs '99
CHiPs '99 is a movie reunion of the 1977-1983 American television series, CHiPs. It was directed by Jon Cassar and shown on Turner Network Television in the USA on October 27 1998.- Cast :*Larry Wilcox as Capt...
, the television reunion movie (1998)
- The Chips
The Chips were a short-lived New York doo-wop vocal group consisting of teenage friends Charles Johnson , Nathaniel Epps , Paul Fulton , Sammy Strain and Shedrick Lincoln ....
a short-lived New York doo-wop band from the 1950s
- Chips (band)
Chips was a Swedish country and pop group, formed in 1979 by Kikki Danielsson and Lasse Holm, and split in 1983.Chips finished 4th in the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1980 with the song "Mycke' mycke' mer", with Lars Westman, Lisa Magnusson, Mats Rådberg and Monica Silverstrand as background singers...
, a Swedish pop and country group
- Chips (album)
Chips is a 1980 album from the Swedish pop and country group Chips. It was the debut album from the group.-Side A:#A Little Bit of Loving#Sympathy#Weekend#So Long Sally#Starry Night#Paris-Side B:#I Remember High School#Sensation#Don't Cry no More...
, an album by the same group
- Ch!pz
Ch!pz is a pop music band from the Netherlands. With catchy lyrics, four number 1 singles in the Netherlands, they target an especially young audience. The group was formed in 2003, after several rounds of tryouts for the Fox Kids Network. The members of Ch!pz are:*Rach-L *C!lla Ch!pz is a pop...
, a Dutch band popular in The Netherlands and in some European countries
- Mr. Chips, the mascot for the UK game show Catchphrase
Catchphrase was a game show based on a short lived US game show of the same name. It ran on ITV in the United Kingdom between 12 January 1986 and 19 December 2002. It was originally hosted by Northern Irish Comedian Roy Walker....
Fictional
- Chip and Skip, two dung beetle brothers on the animated series Camp Lazlo!
- Chip 'n Dale
Chip 'n Dale are two animated chipmunks created by The Walt Disney Company. Their names are a pun based on the name "Chippendale" . This was suggested by Bill "Tex" Henson, a story artist at the studio...
, two animated chipmunks created by The Walt Disney Company
- Chip Skylark, a character from the TV show "The Fairly OddParents"
- Chip, a character from Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring
Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring is a 2001 animated direct-to-video feature starring Tom and Jerry. This was the first made-for-video attempt to recapture the style of Hanna and Barbera's original shorts....
- Chip, a teacup from the Beauty And The Beast series
- Chips, The dog in EastEnders
EastEnders is a long-running, popular and award-winning television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985...
owned by the Beale family
- Mr Chips, a private-school teacher in Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a novel which was written in 4 days by James Hilton. The story had originally been issued as a supplement to the British Weekly, an evangelical newspaper, in 1933 but came to prominence when it was reprinted as the lead piece of the April 1934 issue of The Atlantic...
- Chip & Biff Oblong, two Conjoined twins from the TV show the Oblongs…
The Oblongs is an American animated television program. It was created by Angus Oblong and produced by Film Roman, Random House, Jobsite Productions and Mohawk Productions, Inc. in association with Warner Bros. Television and is loosely based on a series of characters that Oblong introduced in a...
- Chip, Sonic's companion in the game Sonic Unleashed
Sonic Unleashed, released as in Japan, is a video game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for multiple platforms . The game follows Sonic the Hedgehog as he attempts to restore the world to normal after his nemesis, Doctor Eggman, splits the world into...
Food
- Chips
Chips are slab-cut pieces of potato that have been deep-fried or baked. They form part of the popular take-away meal fish and chips.-History:The first chip fried in Britain was apparently on the site of Oldham's Tommyfield Market in 1860...
(UK usage), French friesFrench fries , fries, or french-fried potatoes are thin strips of deep-fried potato...
(USA usage), long cuts of potato that are deep fried
- Corn chip
A corn chip is a snack food made from cornmeal fried in oil or baked, usually in the shape of a small noodle or scoop. Corn chips are thick, rigid and very crunchy...
, a snack food made from corn
- Tortilla chip
A tortilla chip is a snack food made from corn tortillas, which are cut into wedges and then fried . Corn tortillas are made of corn, vegetable oil, salt and water. Although first mass-produced in Los Angeles in the late 1940s, tortilla chips are considered to be a Mexican food...
, a snack food made from corn tortillas
- Potato chip
Potato chips are thin slices of potato that are deep fried or baked until crispy. Potato chips serve as an appetizer, side dish, or snack. Commercial varieties are packaged for sale, usually in bags...
s (USA usage), a snack food made from potatoes, known as crisps in some English-speaking countries, including the UK
- Chocolate chip
Chocolate chips are small chunks of chocolate. They are often sold in a round, flat-bottomed teardrop shape. They are available in numerous sizes, from large to miniature, but are usually around 1 cm in diameter...
, small chunks of chocolate, used for making chocolate-chip cookies, among other things
- Banana chips
Banana chips are deep-fried and/or dried slices of banana, covered with sugar or honey. The chips are crispy and have a sweet taste. Variants of banana chips may be covered with chocolate salt instead.-Fried:...
, deep fried or dried slices of banana covered in honey or sugar
People
- Charlotte Martin
Charlotte Ann Martin is an American singer-songwriter, who performs predominantly on the piano. She has written several studio albums, two of which have received mainstream commercial releases, 2004's On Your Shore and 2006's Stromata.-Biography:Martin grew up in Charleston, Illinois...
, Singer, name given to her by her fans
- Chip Arndt
Chip Arndt is an American gay activist, best known as a winner of The Amazing Race 4 in 2003 with former partner Reichen Lehmkuhl. The team was the first out gay couple to win a reality television competition...
(born 1966), winner of The Amazing Race 4
- Encouraging Bear
Encouraging Bear, aka Horn Chips Pteh Woptuh'a, was a noted Oglala Lakota medicine man, and the spiritual advisor to Crazy Horse. Horn Chips was orphaned as a young child and raised by his grandmother. Later he was adopted by the uncle of Crazy Horse....
, Oglala medicine man also known as Chips
- Henry Channon
Sir Henry "Chips" Channon was an American-born British Conservative politician, author and diarist. Channon moved to England in 1920 and became strongly anti-American, feeling that American cultural and economic views threatened traditional European and British civilisation. He wrote extensively...
(1897–1958), nicknamed "chips", British Member of Parliament and diarist
- Chip Kidd
Chip Kidd is an American author, editor, and graphic designer, best known for his innovative book covers.- Early life :...
(born 1964), graphic designer and author
- Chip Esten
Charles "Chip" Esten is an American actor and singer known for his appearances on the improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway?.-Early life:...
(born 1965), actor
- Chips Kiesbye
Chips Kiesbye is the guitarist and vocalist for the Swedish rock band Sator formed in the late 1980s in Borlänge. Kiesbye is also successful music producer and have worked with several of Swedens most successful rock bands and artists such as The Hellacopters, Millencolin, Thåström, Sahara...
(born 1963), record producer and musician
Sports
Chip Time, is the time a runner passes the from the starting to the finishing lines in a race. It is recorded by a chip that records when these points are passed by the runner. In such races as a marathon the race can start long before the runners at the back of the field pass the starting point, and begin what would be the main course of the race.
Technology
- Chip (CDMA)
In digital communications, a chip is a pulse of a direct-sequence spread spectrum code, such as a pseudo-noise code sequence used in direct-sequence code division multiple access channel access techniques....
, the fundamental unit of transmission in CDMA
- CHIP (programming language), based on Prolog
- Chip card
A smart card, chip card, or integrated circuit card , is any pocket-sized card with embedded integrated circuits which can process data. This implies that it can receive input which is processed — by way of the ICC applications — and delivered as an output. There are two broad...
, credit card, payment card or identification card containing an embedded integrated circuit
- CHIP-8
CHIP-8 is an interpreted programming language, developed by the late Joseph Weisbecker. It was initially used on the COSMAC VIP and Telmac 1800 8-bit microcomputers in the mid-1970s. CHIP-8 programs are run on a CHIP-8 virtual machine...
, a programming language used for video game programming in the 1970s
- Chipseal
Chip seal is a pavement surface treatment that combines a layer of asphalt with a layer of fine aggregate. In the United States, chip seals are typically used on rural roads carrying lower traffic volumes, and the process is often referred to as "asphaltic surface treatment"...
, a pavement surface treatment
- Chiptune
A chiptune, or chip music, is music written in sound formats where all the sounds are synthesized in real time by a computer or video game console sound chip, instead of using sample-based synthesis. The "golden age" of chiptunes was the mid-1980s to early 1990s, when such sound chips were the most...
, music synthesized by a computer sound chip
- ChIP (chromatin immunoprecipitation)
Immunoprecipitation is the technique of precipitating a protein antigen out of solution using an antibody that specifically binds to that particular protein. This process can be used to isolate and concentrate a particular protein from a sample containing many thousands of different proteins...
, a molecular biology method to map DNA sites of specific protein-DNA interaction, such as promoters
- CHIPSat
CHIPSat is a microsatellite. It was launched aboard a Delta II alongside the larger ICESat. CHIPSat is the first of NASA's University-Class Explorers mission. The primary science objective was to study the million-degree gas in the interstellar medium...
- Integrated circuit
In electronics, an integrated circuit is a miniaturized electronic circuit that has been manufactured in the surface of a thin substrate of semiconductor material...
"chip"
- Microprocessor
A microprocessor incorporates most or all of the functions of a central processing unit on a single integrated circuit . The first microprocessors emerged in the early 1970s and were used for electronic calculators, using binary-coded decimal arithmetic on 4-bit words...
"chip"
- Modchip
A modchip is a small electronic device used to modify or disable built-in restrictions and limitations of many popular videogame consoles...
, hardware modification to circumvent DRM systems in game consoles
- Transponder timing
Transponder timing is a technique for measuring performance in sport events. A transponder working on a radio-frequency identification basis is attached to the athlete and emits a unique code that is detected by radio receivers located at the strategic points in an event.Prior to the use of this...
chip, a miniature transponder used in timing running events, usually attached to the shoe
Other
- Buffalo chip or cow dung
Cow dung is the waste of bovine animal species. These species include domestic cattle , bison , yak and water buffalo. Cow dung is the undigested residue of herbivorous matter which has passed through the animal's gut. The resultant faecal matter is rich in minerals...
, dried bovine feces
- Casino token
Casino tokens are small discs used in lieu of currency in casinos. Colored metal or compression molded clay tokens of various denominations are used primarily in table games, as opposed to metal token coins, used primarily in slot machines...
or poker chip, a token of currency in gambling
- CHIP (magazine)
CHIP is a computer and communications magazine published by the CHIP Holding in 15 countries of Europe and Asia. The German edition of CHIP was launched in september 1978 and is one of Germany's oldest and largest computer magazines with 418.019 copies sold in average each month of the 4th quarter...
, a German computer magazine
- Chips (dog)
Chips the dog was the most decorated war dog from World War II. Chips was a German Shepherd-Collie-Siberian Husky mix owned by Edward J. Wren of Pleasantville, NY. During the war, private citizens like Wren donated their dogs for duty. Chips shipped out to the War Dog Training Center, Front...
, an American wardog who served in World War II
- Chip (wood), small piece of wood
- Chips (literary magazine)
Chips is Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School's award winning literary magazine. Chips is currently in its 71st edition.-Awards:Chips has, throughout its existence, been honored with many awards, notably from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and the National Council of Teachers of English...
, the award winning literary and art magazine of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
- Chips Group, a company based in Åland, Finland
- Chip's Challenge
Chip's Challenge is a tile-based, puzzle video game for several systems, including the hand-held Atari Lynx, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, DOS, and Windows .It has also been ported to the TI-84+ calculator. The original game was designed by Chuck Sommerville, who also made about a third of the levels...
, a computer game
- Common Hybrid Interface Protocol System
Common Hybrid Interface Protocol System is the definition of a computer network that consists of a mixture of common serial data protocols such as RS-232 and RS-485, or can be even PC keyboard interface communication. CHIPS may also consist of BlueTooth and Wi-Fi for wireless communication.There...
or CHIPS defines Mixed Interface and Protocol Systems used in serial communications
- DNA chip
A DNA microarray is a multiplex technology used in molecular biology and in medicine. It consists of an arrayed series of thousands of microscopic spots of DNA oligonucleotides, called features, each containing picomoles of a specific DNA sequence...
, a synonym for DNA microarray
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a novel which was written in 4 days by James Hilton. The story had originally been issued as a supplement to the British Weekly, an evangelical newspaper, in 1933 but came to prominence when it was reprinted as the lead piece of the April 1934 issue of The Atlantic...
, a novel by James Hilton, first published in 1934
- State Children's Health Insurance Program
The State Children's Health Insurance Program – later known more simply as the Children's Health Insurance Program – is a program administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides matching funds to states for health insurance to families with children...
(SCHIP), the State Children's Health Insurance Program in the U.S.
- A type of football (soccer) shot
- A type of golf shot
- Foot chip, a type of climbing hold
A climbing hold is a shaped grip that is usually attached to a climbing wall so climbers can grab or step on it. On most walls, climbing holds are arranged in paths, called routes, by specially trained route setters. Climbing holds come in a large array of sizes and shapes to provide different...