1 : the act of conducting or conveying. 2a : transmission through or by means of a conductor; also : the transfer of heat through matter by communication of kinetic energy from particle to particle with no net displacement of the particles â compare convection, radiationb : conductivity.
The name ping-pong was in wide use before English manufacturer J. Jaques & Son Ltd trademarked it in 1901. The name Ping-Pong then came to be used for the game played by the rather expensive Jaques equipment, with other manufacturers calling theirs table tennis.
Either one will be acceptable to the American public, which has shifted its love of ping pong from high-level competition to the social aspect of the worldâs most-played sport. Marty Reisman vs. Victor Barna in the 1949 English Open.