Piggybacking Explained

Piggyback, piggy-back, or piggybacking may mean:

Transport

• Piggyback (transportation), something that is riding on the back of something else

Art, entertainment, and media

• Splash cymbal piggybacking, mounting a cymbal on top of an already stand-mounted cymbal
• "Piggyback" (song), 2017 song by Melanie Martinez
• , 2022 episode of Stranger Things.

Business, finance, and law

• Piggy-back (law), shareholder selling rights
• Piggybacking, a practice in which a person with bad credit uses the seasoned tradeline of credit of someone else

Electronics

• Piggyback board, a daughterboard

Healthcare

• Piggybacking, a second infusion set onto the same intravenous line using a Y-Set (intravenous therapy)
• "Piggy-back technique", is a technique in liver transplantation in which the recipient inferior vena cava is preserved.
• Vision Correction: The wearing of zero- or very-low-strength soft (daily disposable) contact lenses behind hard lenses if the hard lenses alone are uncomfortable or damaging to the cornea.

Science

• Piggyback plant, Tolmiea menziesii
• Piggybacking, technique used in astrophotography
• PiggyBac transposon system, a type of transposable DNA element

Security

• Piggybacking (security), when an authorized person allows (intentionally or unintentionally) others to pass through a secure door when they enter.

Telecommunications

• Piggybacking (data transmission), a bi-directional data transmission technique in network layer, sending data along with ACK called Piggybacking
• Piggybacking (Internet access), obtaining wireless access by bringing one's own computer within the range of another subscriber's service