P


Meaning of P in English

I. ˈpē noun

( plural p's or ps ˈpēz)

Usage: often capitalized, often attributive

1.

a. : the 16th letter of the English alphabet

b. : an instance of this letter printed, written, or otherwise represented

c. : a speech counterpart of orthographic p (as p in pill, spill, dip, apt, or French puis )

2. : a printer's type, a stamp, or some other instrument for reproducing the letter p

3. : someone or something arbitrarily or conveniently designated p especially as the 15th or when j is used for the 10th the 16th in order or class

4. : something having the shape of the letter P

II. abbreviation

Usage: often capitalized

1. pacer

2. page

3.

[Latin papa ]

pope

4. parallax

5. park

6. part

7. participle

8.

[Latin partim ]

in part

9. past

10. paste

11. pastor

12.

[Latin pater ]

father

13. patrol

14. pawn

15. pengö

16. penny

17.

[Latin per ]

by

18. perch

19.

[French père ]

father

20. perforation

21. perimeter

22. period

23. perishable

24. peseta

25. peso

26. pharmacopoeia

27.

[Italian]

piano

28. piaster

29. picot

30. pie

31. pint

32. pipe

33. pitch; pitcher

34.

[Latin pius ]

holy

35. planed

36. plate

37. pleasant

38. point

39. polar

40. pole

41. population

42.

[Latin populus ]

people

43. port

44. post

45. postage

46. posterior

47. power

48. predicate

49. present

50. president

51. pressure

52. priest

53. primary

54. prince

55. principal

56.

[Latin pro ]

for

57. proconsul

58. prompter

59. pupil

60. purl

61. pursuit

III. symbol

1. capitalized phosphorus

2. usually capitalized parental; parental generation

3. proton

4.

a. plaintext — used as a subscript

S p means the letter S in plaintext or plain component

b. usually capitalized the numerical value of a plaintext letter when the plain component is serially numbered from 0 to 25

P +K.C is the Vigenère keying method

5. usually capitalized priestly code — used in biblical criticism to designate material and redactions belonging to a priestly commentary

IV. abbreviation

1. capitalized parity

2. pico-

V. symbol

1. momentum of a particle

2. often capitalized the probability of obtaining a result as great as or greater than the observed result in a statistical test if the null hypothesis is true

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