What does P stand for?

P stands for various terms. Discover the full forms, meanings, and possible interpretations of P across different fields and industries.

Plus

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Dealers in government bonds normally give price quotes in 32nds. To quote a bid or offer in 64ths, they use pluses; a dealer who bids 4+ is bidding the handle plus 4/32 + 1/64, which equals the handle plus 9/64.

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Planning

The legal system, operated and enforced by local authorities, by means of which the development of land is controlled for the public good. Not to be confused with Building Control.

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Priority

Precedence in receiving the attention of the microprocessor and the use of system resources. Within a computer, unseen and unnoticed levels of priority are the means by which many different types of potential clashes and disruptions are avoided. Similarly, tasks running on a computer can be assigned priorities that determine when and for how long they receive time from the microproces-sor.

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Precision

An attribute of a timestamp that describes the total number of decimal digits in the fractional seconds part of the value. An information retrieval measurement that specifies the proportion of relevant data to all retrieved data. Precision is a positive predictive value. Information retrieval is best measured by using both precision and recall.

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Period

The elements in a horizontal row of the periodic table.

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Predicted

Expected at some future date, on the basis of analysis of past experience.

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Pressure

The normal force exerted by a homogeneous liquid or gas, per unit of area, on the wall of its container. The force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit). The force per unit area acting on a surface. A force being exerted on part of a surface. When you stand, your feet put pressure on the ground.

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Prime

Coil type indicating that the produced coil or lift meets all the requirements of the order.

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Processor

This little chip is the heart of a computer. Also referred to as the "microprocessor," the processor does all the computations such as adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing. In PCs, the most popular microprocessor used is the Intel Pentium chip, whereas Macintosh computers use the PowerPC chip (developed by Motorola, IBM, and Apple). The speed of a computer's processor is measured in megahertz, or cycles per second. But higher megahertz doesn't always mean better performance.

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Push

Push refers to a system in which data is "pushed" to a user's device rather than "pulled" by the user. In other words, the data transfer is initiated by the server rather than the client. Push technology, which is also called "server push," can be used to send news data, stock updates, and other information from the Internet to a user's computer. It is also used to send text messages via SMS to people's cell phones. Push e-mail allows users to receive e-mail messages without having to check their e-mail manually.

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