noun

• (electronics) A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.
  "When the blip began to move up the oscilloscope screen, they followed again."
• (by extension) A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal.
  "There's a chance this is just a viral blip, an intermittent spike of low-level virus that just happens in people on successful HIV treatment."
• (Internet, historical) An individual message or document in the Google Wave software framework.
  "When a participant has full access permissions to a wave, he or she can change the contents of all blips and reply within or after blips."

verb

• (intransitive) To make a short beep sound.
  "The door blipped as I showed my electronic identity card and passed through."
• (intransitive, informal) To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion.
  "1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure We got a call that Pat still on the respirator & that the doc said that now because the EEG was blipping, they couldn't unhook him from the respirator."
• (transitive) Synonym of bleep (“to replace offending words in a broadcast recording with a tone”).
  "[…] even walking off his own show once after an NBC censor had arbitrarily blipped a mildly risque joke from the day's tape."
• (automotive) To apply the throttle briefly when downshifting, to provide a smoother gear transition and prevent wheelspin.