Meaning of pi | Babel Free

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1. Abbreviation of Piauí: a state of Brazil.
   abbreviation, alt-of
2. Initialism of processing instruction.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
3. ISO 639-1 language code for Pali
4. The sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek.
   countable, uncountable
5. Metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered.
   countable, uncountable
6. pica (conventionally, 12 points = 1 pica, 6 picas = 1 inch).
7. A county of Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
   historical
8. Initialism of Prison Industries, the prison-run work program for inmates.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
9. Initialism of partial induction (see AI).
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
10. The sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek
11. private investigator
12. An irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its diameter; approximately 3.14159265358979323846264338327950; usually written π.
    countable, uncountable
13. Piaster.
14. Initialism of Philippine Islands.
    Philippines, US, abbreviation, alt-of, dated, historical, initialism
15. Initialism of personal injury.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
16. An irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its diameter; approximately 3.14159265358979323846264338327950; usually written π
17. An amount of type that has been jumbled or thrown together at random.
18. Initialism of politically incorrect (see PC).
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
19. Metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered
20. To jumble or mix up (type).
21. Initialism of principal investigator (“lead researcher on a grant-funded project”).
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
22. To spill or mix printing type
23. To become jumbled.
24. Initialism of private investigator.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
25. Philippine Islands.
26. Initialism of parallel import.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
27. An irrational number that has a numerical value of 3.14159265359... and is represented by the symbol π. It expresses the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle and appears as a constant in many mathematical expressions.
28. Abbreviation of phosphatidylinositol, a phospholipid component of eukaryotic cell membranes, also abbreviated in PtdIns.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
29. (") Symbol and name representing the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Its value is approximately 3.14.
30. Initialism of protease inhibitor.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
31. (also pē) The 16th letter of the Greek alphabet. See Table at alphabet.
    also
32. Initialism of polyimide.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
33. Mathematics A transcendental number, approximately 3.14159, represented by the symbol π, that expresses the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle and appears as a constant in many mathematical expressions.
    Mathematics
34. Initialism of ponderal index.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
35. (Letters of the Alphabet (Foreign)) the 16th letter in the Greek alphabet (Π, π), a consonant, transliterated as p
    p
36. Initialism of penile inversion.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
37. Initialism of power integrity.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
38. Abbreviation of prohibited immigrant.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
39. Initialism of pseudoincest.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
40. Initialism of port injection (“fuel injection”).
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
41. Initialism of paradoxical intention.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
42. Initialism of pro forma invoice.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
43. Initialism of People's Initiative.
    Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

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Examples

“We're going back to the PI for a vacation this summer.”

“Pi County has brought democracy into full play. The peasants there are electing production team leaders and other production team cadres by secret ballot.”

“[...]water carriers, the sedanchair carriers, the pawn brokers, and even the manure collectors in a market town in Pi county, Szechwan in the late Ch'ing period.”

“In addition to my own residential complex, I also engaged in ethnographic observation and conducted interviews with Party cadres and local residents in four similar apartment complexes in Dujiangyan and two in neighboring Pi County.”

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