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.
This enzyme uses what we call a ping-pong mechanism, says Ronen Marmorstein, Ph.D., senior author on the study and an associate professor at The Wistar Institute. First the acetyl molecule is transferred to the enzyme - ping - and then it goes from the enzyme to the histone protein - pong.