Chip may refer to:

Food

Chip (snack) A chip (American English and Australian English) or crisp (British English) is a snack food in the form of a crisp, flat or slightly bowl shaped, bite-sized unit. Some chips can be made into dishes and served as an appetizer, side, hors d'oeuv ...

, thin sliced food, cooked until crunchy **

Potato chip A potato chip (North American English; often just chip) or crisp (British and Irish English) is a thin slice of potato that has been either deep fried, baked, or air fried until crunchy. They are commonly served as a snack, side dish, or app ...

, a thin slice of potato that has been deep fried or baked until crunchy, called a "crisp" in some countries, such as the UK. *

Chips (hot food) French fries (North American English), chips (British English), finger chips (Indian English), french-fried potatoes, or simply fries, are '' batonnet'' or '' allumette''-cut deep-fried potatoes of disputed origin from Belgium and France. Th ...

, fried potato batons also called ''french fries'' *

Game chips Game chips are a traditional British accompaniment to roast gamebirds, such as pheasant, grouse, partridge and quail. They are thin slices of potato (sometimes dusted with flour; often crinkle-cut), deep-fried, and may be served hot or cold. Th ...

, thin deep-fried slices of potato served as an accompaniment to roast gamebirds *

Chocolate chip Chocolate chips or chocolate morsels are small chunks of sweetened chocolate, used as an ingredient in a number of desserts (notably chocolate chip cookies and muffins), in trail mix and less commonly in some breakfast foods such as pancakes. ...

, small chunk of sweetened chocolate

Sports and gaming

Chip (association football) A chip, also known as a lob, is a shot in which the ball is kicked from underneath with accuracy but with less than maximum force, to launch it high into the air in order either to pass it over the heads of opponents or to score a goal over the goa ...

, a type of football shot *

Chip (golf) The golf swing is the action by which players hit the ball in the sport of golf. The golf swing is a complex motion involving the whole body; the technicalities of the swing are known as golf stroke mechanics. There are differing opinions on what ...

, a type of golf shot *

Casino token Casino tokens (also known as casino or gaming chips, checks, cheques or poker chips) are small discs used in terms of currency in casinos. Colored metal, injection-molded plastic or compression molded clay tokens of various denominations are u ...

, often referred to as a chip

People and fictional characters

Chip (name) Chip is an English given name and nickname in the United States, which is often a diminutive form of Charles or Christopher. Notable people referred to by this name include the following: People Nickname * Raymond Chip Ambres (born 1979), Ame ...

, a list of people and fictional characters with either the given name or nickname *

Chip (rapper) Jahmaal Noel Fyffe (born 26 November 1990), better known by his stage name Chip (previously Chipmunk), is a British rapper and songwriter from Tottenham, North London. In the past 14 years he has collaborated with the likes of Skepta, T.I., ...

, English hip hop recording artist born Jahmaal Noel Fyffe in 1990 *

King Chip Charles Jawanzaa Worth (born October 20, 1986), known by his stage names King Chip and Chip tha Ripper, is an American rapper from Cleveland, Ohio. He is notable for amassing several self-released mixtapes, as well as for his work with longtime ...

(born 1986), stage name of American hip hop rapper Charles Jawanzaa Worth, formerly known as Chip tha Ripper *

Chip Douglas Douglas Farthing Hatlelid (born August 27, 1942), better known as Chip Douglas, is an American songwriter, musician (bass, guitar and keyboards), and record producer, whose most famous work was during the 1960s. He was the bassist of the Turtle ...

, American songwriter, musician, and record producer Douglas Hatlelid (born 1942) *

Chip Taylor Chip Taylor (born James Wesley Voight; March 21, 1940) is an American songwriter and singer noted for writing " Angel of the Morning" and "Wild Thing". Early life Taylor was born on March 21, 1940, in Yonkers, New York. He is the brother of a ...

, stage name of American songwriter James Wesley Voight (born 1940) *

Chip Fairway Brett J. Keen (November 2, 1972 – April 9, 2011), better known by the ring name Chip Fairway, was an American professional wrestler. One of the top cruiserweight wrestlers in the Midwestern United States during the mid-to-late 1990s, his in-ri ...

, a ring name of American professional wrestler Brett J. Keen (1972–2011)

Biology

Chromatin immunoprecipitation Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is a type of immunoprecipitation experimental technique used to investigate the interaction between proteins and DNA in the cell. It aims to determine whether specific proteins are associated with specific genom ...

(ChIP), a molecular biology method to map DNA sites *

STUB1 STUB1 (STIP1 homology and U-Box containing protein 1) is a human gene that codes for the protein CHIP (C terminus of HSC70-Interacting Protein). Function The CHIP protein encoded by this gene binds to and inhibits the ATPase activity of the ch ...

, a human gene also known as CHIP (C terminus of HSC70-Interacting Protein) * Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP)

Computing

* Chip, a

monolithic integrated circuit An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit (also referred to as an IC, a chip, or a microchip) is a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece (or "chip") of semiconductor material, usually silicon. Large numbers of tiny M ...

without its packaging, a microchip ** An integrated circuit mounted on a surface mount

chip carrier In electronics, a chip carrier is one of several kinds of surface-mount technology packages for integrated circuits (commonly called "chips"). Connections are made on all four edges of a square package; compared to the internal cavity for mou ...

Chip (CDMA) In digital communications, a chip is a pulse of a direct-sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) code, such as a pseudo-random noise (PN) code sequence used in direct-sequence code-division multiple access (CDMA) channel access techniques. In a binary d ...

, the fundamental unit of transmission in CDMA *

CHIP (computer) CHIP (stylized as C.H.I.P.) was a single-board computer crowdfunded by now-defunct Next Thing Co. (NTC), released as open-source hardware running open-source software. It was advertised as "the world's first $9 computer". CHIP and related product ...

, Linux dev board built by Next Thing Co. and marketed as a miniature computer *

CHIP (programming language) CHIP (Constraint Handling in Prolog) is a constraint logic programming language developed by M. Dincbas, Pascal Van Hentenryck and colleagues in 1985 at the European Computer-Industry Research Centre (ECRC), initially using a Prolog language int ...

, based on Prolog *

CHIP-8 CHIP-8 is an interpreted programming language, developed by Joseph Weisbecker made on his 1802 Microprocessor. 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 v ...

, a video game programming language in the 1970s *

ChucK Chuck is a masculine given name or a nickname for Charles or Charlie. It may refer to: People Arts and entertainment * Chuck Alaimo, American saxophonist, leader of the Chuck Alaimo Quartet * Chuck Barris (1929–2017), American TV producer * ...

for iPhone/iPad (ChiP), a programming language used for music synthesis *

Connected Home over IP Matter, formerly Project Connected Home over IP (CHIP), is a proprietary standard for home automation that is royalty-free, with manufacturers only incurring certification costs. Announced on 18 December 2019, Matter aims to reduce fragmentation ...

(CHIP), a protocol for home automation

Finance

Chip (stock market) A chip is a terminology to describe a stock of a particular quality. Chip Share {, class="wikitable" , +Share !Name !Description , - , , A share , Company listed in Shanghai or Shenzhen and traded in renminbi , - , , B share , C ...

, description of stock of a particular quality *

Clearing House Interbank Payments System The Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS) is a United States private clearing house for large-value transactions. By 2015, it was settling well over US$1.5 trillion a day in around 250,000 interbank payments in cross border and domestic ...

(CHIPS), a United States private clearing house for large-value transactions

Organizations and programs

California Highway Patrol The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is a state law enforcement agency of the U.S. state of California. The CHP has primary patrol jurisdiction over all California highways and roads and streets outside city limits, and can exercise law enfor ...

(CHiP), a law enforcement agency of California *

CHIP Holding CHIP Holding GmbH is a German-based publishing house owned by Hubert Burda Media. Its core activity is the publication of special-interest, country- and language-specific print and online media in the information and communication technology sector. ...

, a German-based publishing house *

Children's Health Insurance Program The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) – formerly known as the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) – is a program administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides matching funds to ...

(CHIP), a US federal government program * Community Housing and Infrastructure Program (CHIP), an Australian government funding program, along with its

Community Development Employment Projects The Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) was an initiative by the Australian Government for the employment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people It provided a flexible basic income support. One way in which the CDEP funds, a ...

* Masonic Child Identification Programs, a charitable initiative by North American Masonic lodges

Other uses

* Chip, one of the mascots of the

University of Colorado at Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado s ...

Chip language Miship, or Chip, is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria. Doka is a dialect. Blench lists the two dialects ''Longmaar'' and ''Jiɓaam''.Blench, Roger. 2017Current research on the A3 West Chadic languages The Chip people are ...

, spoken in Nigeria *

Swarf Swarf, also known as chips or by other process-specific names (such as turnings, filings, or shavings), are pieces of metal, wood, or plastic that are the debris or waste resulting from machining, woodworking, or similar subtractive (material- ...

, also known as chips, the debris or waste resulting from metalworking operations * ''CHIP'' (magazine), a German computer magazine ** ''

Chip-India ''Intelligent Computing CHIP'' (IC CHIP) was a monthly Information Technology magazine published by Network 18 Publishing Ltd (formerly Infomedia 18 Ltd.) since December 2003. It was the Indian edition of the German monthly ''CHIP'', which is a r ...

'', Indian edition of German computer magazine ''CHIP''