P
\pˈiː], \pˈiː], \p_ˈiː]\
Definitions of P
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms
By Princeton University
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a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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the sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant whose form and value come from the Latin, into which language the letter was brought, through the ancient Greek, from the Phoenician, its probable origin being Egyptian.
By Noah Webster.
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Chemical symbol of phosphorus. Abbreviation of pugillus, a handful.
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Abbreviation of pupil, and optic papilla.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Is the sixteenth letter of the alphabet, and has a labial articulation. In music, it stands for piano, softly, and pp. for piu piano, more softly.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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The twelfth articulation or consonant, and the sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, is formed by closely compressing the lips, and separating them suddenly with an explosive emission of breath, as in part, pap. It is sometimes silent, as in psalm, receipt; and before h it is usually sounded as f, as in philosophy, phantom.
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