blips

To emit one or more bleeps.

“The robot bleeped to acknowledge its new instructions.”

To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.

A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.

A short sound of a single pitch, usually electronically generated.

(by extension) A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal.

An individual message or document in the Google Wave software framework.

To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion.