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.
They wanted to name it the International Ping Pong. Federation, but they could not do that because of the trademark. So they called. it the International Table Tennis Federation. This marked the separation. between Ping Pong the commercial game and Table Tennis the Sport, which.