[pahy] 
| 1. | the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π). |
| 2. | the consonant sound represented by this letter. |
| 3. | Mathematics.
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[pahy] noun, plural pies, verb, pied, pi⋅ing.| 1. | printing types mixed together indiscriminately. |
| 2. | any confused mixture; jumble. |
| 3. | to reduce (printing types) to a state of confusion. |
| 4. | to jumble. |
| 1. | Law. personal injury. |
| 2. | principal investigator. |
| 3. | private investigator. |
| 1. | Philippine Islands. |
| 2. | Also, p.i. private investigator. |
| pi 1 (pī) n.
[Late Greek pī, from Greek pei, of Phoenician origin; see p in Semitic roots.] |
| pi 2 also pie (pī) n. pl. pis also pies An amount of type that has been jumbled or thrown together at random. v. pied (pīd) also pied, pi·ing also pie·ing, pies also pies v. tr. To jumble or mix up (type). v. intr. To become jumbled. [Origin unknown.] |
| PI abbr. private investigator |
| private investigator n. Abbr. PI A person privately hired to do investigative or detective work. Also called private detective, private eye. |
The irrational number obtained by dividing the length of the diameter of a circle into its circumference. Pi is approximately 3.1416. The sign for pi is π.
pi (pī)
n. pl. pis
Symbol π The 16th letter of the Greek alphabet.
pI (pē'ī')
n.
The pH value for the isoelectric point of a given substance in solution.
PI
An interface between Prolog application programs and the X Window System that aims to be independent from the Prolog engine, provided that it has a Quintus foreign function interface (e.g. SICStus and YAP). It is mostly written in Prolog and is divided in two libraries: Edipo - the lower level interface to the Xlib functions; and Ytoolkit - the higher level user interface toolkit.
(ftp://ftp.ncc.up.pt/pub/prolog/ytoolkit.tar.Z).
E-mail: Ze' Paulo Leal
(1993-03-02)
| pi Pali |
| Pi inorganic phosphate |
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