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Initialism of Prince Edward Island: a province of Canada.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable, usually
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Initialism of Port Elizabeth: a city in South Africa.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable, usually
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Initialism of Portable Edition (usually used for a software version).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable, usually
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, software
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Initialism of Preinstallation Environment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable, usually
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, software
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Initialism of Portable Executable (executable file format used by modern versions of Microsoft Windows).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable, usually
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, software
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Abbreviation of Pernambuco: a state of Brazil.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable, usually
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Abbreviation of Highland Papua: a province of Indonesia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable, usually
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name
Alternative form of Pi.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, obsolete
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name
A surname.
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noun
Initialism of professional engineer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: business
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noun
Initialism of physical education.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: education
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noun
Initialism of preliminary examination.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: education
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noun
Initialism of protective earthing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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Initialism of polyethylene.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences
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noun
Initialism of polyether.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences
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noun
Initialism of pulmonary embolism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
Initialism of premature ejaculation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
Initialism of private equity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: business, finance
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noun
Initialism of permanent establishment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: business, law
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noun
The seventeenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew פ, Syriac ܦ, and others; Arabic has the analog faa).
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noun
The name of the Cyrillic script letter П / п.
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noun
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character
History
From an idiosyncratic romanization of Chinese 郫 (pí)縣 /县 (Píxiàn).
From Hebrew פֵּא (pê), from Proto-Semitic *pay- (“mouth”). Doublet of pi.
Across languages
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
