P
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Translingual
See also
Symbol
P
- (chemistry) symbol for phosphorus
- (metrology) symbol for peta-
- (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for proline
- (mathematics) probability
- P(A) is the probability of A occurring
- (physics) power
- (computer science) class of problems solvable in polynomial time
Gallery
- Capital and lowercase versions of P, in normal and italic type
- Uppercase and lowercase P in Fraktur
See also
Other representations of P:
English
Letter
See also
Number
P (upper case, lower case p)
Etymology 2
Abbreviations.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰiː/
- Rhymes: -iː
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
P (plural Ps)
- park
- phone
- pager
- passenger
- Philippine peso
- (chess) Pawn.
- (slang, chiefly US) A "pure" form of an illegal drug, especially heroin.
- 2009, Dr Kerry Spackman, The Winner's Bible:
- P directly targets the dopamine pathways in your brain and as a result goes straight to your pleasure/reward module, which makes it an incredibly hard drug to break free from.
- 2009, Dr Kerry Spackman, The Winner's Bible:
- (slang, New Zealand) methamphetamine
- 2011, New Zealand Herald, 6 May 2011:
- Almost 70kg of pre-cursor drugs that could be used to manufacture $20 million of P have been seized by police and customs officers.
- 2011, New Zealand Herald, 6 May 2011:
Proper noun
P
- (computing theory) The set of all problems that are solvable in polynomial time by a deterministic Turing machine
American Sign Language
Azerbaijani
Letter
P upper case (lower case p)
Dutch
Pronunciation
- (letter name): IPA(key): /peː/
Audio (file)
Esperanto
Letter
P (upper case, lower case p)
Finnish
Letter
P (upper case, lower case p)
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peː/
Audio (file)
German Sign Language
Etymology
Related to the French Sign Language sign for "P".
Production
This one-handed GSL sign is produced as follows:
- Posture the dominant hand in the “P” shape.
Ido
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p/
Italian
Pronunciation
- (name of letter) IPA(key): /pi/
- (phoneme) IPA(key): /p/
Letter
P m or f (invariable, lower case p)
Japanese
Etymology
From English producer. The VOCALOID sense may have arisen from an extension of the concept of producers in THE IDOLM@STER; both THE IDOLM@STER and VOCALOID were/are popular topics on the Niconico video sharing website.
Suffix
P (katakana ピー, rōmaji -pī)
- (entertainment, music) Initialism of プロデューサー (purodyūsā, “producer”).
- (more specifically) Musician who produces music featuring VOCALOID.
- ささくれP
- sasakure-pī
- sasakureP
- ささくれP
- (typography, especially in typeface names) Initialism of プロポーショナル (purpōshonaru, “proportional”).
- MSPゴシック
- Emuesu Pī-goshikku
- MS PGothic
- MSPゴシック
Derived terms
- ボカロP (bokaro-pī)
Latvian
Etymology
Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [p]
Malay
Pronunciation
Portuguese
Letter
P (upper case, lower case p)
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe/
Letter
P (upper case, lower case p)
- The nineteenth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /p/. Preceded by O and followed by R.
Saanich
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p/
Slovene
Spanish
Turkish
Letter
P (upper case, lower case p)
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [pe˧˧], [ʔɓe˧˧ fəː˧˩], [pəː˨˩]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [pej˧˧], [ʔɓej˧˧ fəː˧˨], [pəː˦˩]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [pej˧˧], [ʔɓej˧˧ fəː˨˩˦], [pəː˨˩]
- Phonetic: pê, bê phở, pờ
Letter
P (upper case, lower case p)
See also
- (Quốc ngữ letters) chữ; A a (À à, Ả ả, Ã ã, Á á, Ạ ạ), Ă ă (Ằ ằ, Ẳ ẳ, Ẵ ẵ, Ắ ắ, Ặ ặ), Â â (Ầ ầ, Ẩ ẩ, Ẫ ẫ, Ấ ấ, Ậ ậ), B b, C c (Ch ch), D d, Đ đ, E e (È è, Ẻ ẻ, Ẽ ẽ, É é, Ẹ ẹ), Ê ê (Ề ề, Ể ể, Ễ ễ, Ế ế, Ệ ệ), G g (Gh gh, Gi gi), H h, I i (Ì ì, Ỉ ỉ, Ĩ ĩ, Í í, Ị ị), K k (Kh kh), L l, M m, N n (Ng ng, Ngh ngh, Nh nh), O o (Ò ò, Ỏ ỏ, Õ õ, Ó ó, Ọ ọ), Ô ô (Ồ ồ, Ổ ổ, Ỗ ỗ, Ố ố, Ộ ộ), Ơ ơ (Ờ ờ, Ở ở, Ỡ ỡ, Ớ ớ, Ợ ợ), P p (Ph ph), Q q (Qu qu), R r, S s, T t (Th th, Tr tr), U u (Ù ù, Ủ ủ, Ũ ũ, Ú ú, Ụ ụ), Ư ư (Ừ ừ, Ử ử, Ữ ữ, Ứ ứ, Ự ự), V v, X x, Y y (Ỳ ỳ, Ỷ ỷ, Ỹ ỹ, Ý ý, Ỵ ỵ)
Zulu
Letter
P (upper case, lower case p)