Meaning of postpostscript | Babel Free

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Noun. [C2]

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“mr. smith: Postscript—that can’t come⟳ about except through price inflation— / mr. backman: Postpostscript—price inflation will have⟳ no effect because depreciation is determined by what we have⟳ already invested in a plant⟳.”

“Postscript / → Hot carrier diodes in the crystal set⟳ do not work⟳ as well as good germanium point⟳ contact⟳ types (OA90, 1N69, etc), but better than poor ones (e.g. some from the computer boards). […] Postpostscript: / In the May (not April) 1972 issue⟳ of QST is reprinted an announcement from March⟳ 1920 telling how an ordinary crystal set⟳ may be made to oscillate simply by applying bias to the crystal (and the way the diagram looks, it is back biased -⁠- some kind of negative resistance zener effect?).”

“Postscript: I have⟳ written all these pages to know⟳ myself. […] Postpostscript: A date⟳, June 1971. Seven months after Ana’s death I created a job for myself.”

“Enough for this postpostscript to say⟳ that Affair E had ended, painfully, last⟳ summer: as sore a business as Aeneas’s jilting Dido, but not, I trust⟳, so fatal.”

“Postscript If J(v̰⁽ⁱ⁾) is nonsingular for all i, it may be shown that the iteration (4.14) is globally convergent from any feasible initial approximation provided that l < p ≤ 2. / Postpostscript Reference 5 will appear⟳ in SIAM J. Sci. Stat. Comput.”

“A postscript. Louise Sheffield Brownell was born in 1870 (two years before Susy) and died in 1961 at ninety-one. […] A postpostscript. According to Silvia Saunders, Jesse Benedict Carter (1872–1917) of Princeton was a “close⟳ friend of Louise’s in Europe in 1893 and afterwards.[…]””

“Postpostscript / Funny business. I labored for three years to write⟳ a monograph on the evolution of Bermudian land⟳ snails, and only nine people have⟳ ever cited the resulting tome.”

“PPS abbr. 1. Parliamentary Private Secretary. 2. additional postscript (postpostscript).”

“The letter closes with a P.S. / P.S. Remember⟳, guns have⟳ been proven winners for years. Find⟳ out if they have⟳ a place⟳ in your investment portfolio. / This still may be hard for consumers to believe⟳, so the writer offers a free catalog in a postpostscript.”

“Postpostscript / I don’t know⟳ if Wakefield Hospital is very authentic.”

“PPS is a potential abbreviation of physical process⟳ specification. It is also the abbreviation for postpostscript, as used on letters for additional words added after the main body of the letter (and the postscript) has been completed. […] Physical design⟳ may be a postpostscript to systems analysis and logical design⟳. It is however the beginning of the major work⟳ of constructing and testing the new system.”

“postpostscript: For those voyagers heading to the Caribbean who are thinking of stepping up to speedier times, there are still bargains to be bought in Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela, where both rigid bottom dinghies and name-brand outboards can be had at a considerable discount from prices elsewhere.”

“Postpostscript: The Russian Tea Room served 2,647 pounds of caviar in an average year and 5,884 liter bottles of vodka.”

“Back when I was a child, even into my adulthood, at the end⟳ of letters there was sometimes the abbreviation “P.S.” And occasionally, after that, a “P.P.S.”—“postpostscript,” my mother explained.”

“(Postscript, 64–70) To the scribe of the king, my lord, speak⟳: Message of Abdi-Ḫeba, your servant. […] (Postpostscript, 71–8) And please⟳ treat⟳ the evil deed as the responsibility of the men of Kush.”

“Postscript / Back in England with my books again I find⟳ confirmation that, in exploring the work⟳ and crafts of women, most studies concentrate on spinning and weaving. […] Postpostscript / I sent the above to Patrick who elaborated for me the process⟳ from clay to market in which different groups of people would be independently responsible for each part.”

“"Thomas Sherlock, The tryal of the witnesses of the Resurrection, Edinburgh 1729~˜ see⟳ also the account of Wollston’s trial: An Account of the trial of T. W. […] for writing, printing, publishing four blasphemous books On the Miracles of Our Saviour, etc, Dublin/London 1729~˜ John Asgill, Asgill upon Woolston~˜ being an abstract of Mr. Woolston’s six discourses against the miracles of Christ, be the same more or less and a ridicule thereof with a postscript, and a postpostscript, printed by A. Campbell, sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1730.”

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