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Pied
is a GRE word you need to know.
So is inscrutable. Does it mean:
| speech addressed to a public assembly |
| difficult to fathom or understand |
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Word Origin & History
pi
1841, used in L. 1748 by Swiss mathematician Leonhart Euler (1707-83), from Gk. letter pi (from Heb., lit. "little mouth") as an abbreviation of Gk. periphereia "periphery." For the meaning "printer's term for mixed type," see pie (3).
EXPANDpie
printers' slang for "a mass of type jumbled together" (also pi, pye), 1659, perhaps from pie (1) on notion of a "medley," or pie (2) (see pica).
pied
1382, as if it were the pp. of a verb form of M.E. noun pie "magpie" (see pie (2)), in ref. to the bird's black and white plumage. Earliest use is in reference to the pyed freres, an order of friars who wore black and white. Also in pied piper (1845, in Browning's poem based
on the Ger. legend; used allusively from 1942).
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Medical Dictionary
pI (pē'ī')
n.
The pH value for the isoelectric point of a given substance in solution.
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Science Dictionary
pi  (pī) Pronunciation Key
An irrational number that has a numerical value of 3.14159265358979... and is represented by the symbol π. It expresses the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle and appears in many mathematical expressions. |
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Cultural Dictionary
pi [(peye)]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.
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