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abbreviation
1Page.
- ‘see p 784’
2
(also p-)Chemistry
in combination Para-- ‘p-xylene’
3British Penny or pence.
- ‘a 5p coin’
4Music
Piano (softly).5in combination (in units of measurement) pico- (10⁻¹²)
- ‘a 220 pf capacitor’
6Chemistry
Denoting electrons and orbitals possessing one unit of angular momentum.- ‘p-electrons’
1Physics
Pressure.- ‘pV = nRT’
2Statistics
Probability.- ‘this difference was significant (p = 0.0008)’
nounPs, P's
1The sixteenth letter of the alphabet.
‘Lets have an S for Speedy, and a P for Polly, intertwined on the top of the cake, in red frosting.’- ‘I have a P for Patricia and J for my name Joy.. so technically it's PJ!’
- ‘One key to knowing which marketing programs to choose involves thoroughly understanding how to leverage the 4 Ps of marketing - price, product, promotion, and place - to reach and appeal to your target audience(s).’
- 1.1Denoting the next after O (or N if O is omitted) in a set of items, categories, etc.‘Let P be the set of all finite subsets of N.’
- ‘Now for each r, let p be the next larger even integer.’
abbreviation
1(in tables of sports results) games played.
2(on an automatic gear shift) park.
3(on road signs and street plans) parking.
4in combination (in units of measurement) peta- (10¹⁵)
- ‘27 PBq of radioactive material’
5Physics
Poise (unit of viscosity).6Portugal (international vehicle registration).
7Proprietary.
The chemical element phosphorus.
Pronunciation
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