ETYM An imitative word. Related to Tink.
A light clear metallic sound as of a small bell; SYN. tinkle.

ETYM See Ting (n.).
1. To cause to make a ting.
2. To go.

(1936-) US physicist. In 1974 he and his team at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, detected a new subatomic particle, which he named the J particle. It was found to be identical to the o particle discovered in the same year by Burton Richter and his team at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, California. Ting and Richter shared the Nobel Prize for Physics 1976.