'blip' definitions:
Definition of 'blip'
From: WordNet
noun
A sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption; "the market had one bad blip today"; "you can't react to the day-to-day blips"; "renewed jitters in the wake of a blip in retail sales"
noun
A radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface [syn: blip, pip, radar target]
Definition of 'blip'
From: GCIDE
- blip \blip\ n.
- 1. (Radar) a spot of light on a radar screen, showing the position of a reflecting surface, such as an airplane or ship.
- Note: this sense is also used metaphorically to mean a barely perceptible object;, Kennedy's candidacy was a mere blip on Humphrey's radar screen until he won the West Virginia primary. This is the probably origin of sense 3.
- Syn: radar echo, radar target. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. a short upward or downward deviation from a trend line on a graph, especially in a plot of some variable, such as an economic variable, against time; as, a brief blip upward in the unemployment rate. [PJC]
- 3. something small or insignificant. [PJC]
- 4. a brief interruption in the continuity of a recorded or transmitted signal; as, there is a blip on my CD of Beethoven's ninth. [PJC]