ALL meanings of pi
pi
P p - noun Technical meaning of pi (programming) An interface between Prolog application programs and the X Window System that aims to be independent from the Prolog engine, provided that it has a Quintus foreign function interface (e.g. SICStus and YAP). PI is mostly written in Prolog and is divided in two libraries: Edipo - the lower level interface to the Xlib functions; and Ytoolkit - the higher level user interface toolkit. E-mail: Ze' Paulo Leal <[email protected]>. 1
- noun pi mathematics: 3.14 1
- noun pi Greek letter 1
- noun plural pi the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π). 1
- noun plural pi the consonant sound represented by this letter. 1
- noun plural pi Mathematics. the letter π, used as the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. the ratio itself: 3.141592+. 1
- noun plural pi printing types mixed together indiscriminately. 1
- noun plural pi any confused mixture; jumble. 1
- verb with object pi to reduce (printing types) to a state of confusion. 1
- verb with object pi to jumble. 1
- noun Technical meaning of pi 1. (character) The greek lower-case letter P. 2. (mathematics) The mathematical constant that is the circumference of a circle divided by its diameter. Pi is written as the greek character pi. Some have suggested that pi is the wrong choice and a better constant to describe the geometry of circles would have been 2*pi, for which they have proposed the name tau. Most practising mathematicians think this is silly. The xkcd comic strip proposed a compromise between pi and tau, namely 1.5*pi or "pau". 1
- number pi Pi is a number, approximately 3.142, which is equal to the distance round a circle divided by its width. It is usually represented by the Greek letter π. 0
- noun pi the 16th letter in the Greek alphabet (Π, π), a consonant, transliterated as p 0
- noun pi a transcendental number, fundamental to mathematics, that is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Approximate value: 3.141 592…; symbol: π 0
- noun pi a jumbled pile of printer's type 0
- noun pi a jumbled mixture 0
- verb pi to spill and mix (set type) indiscriminately 0
- verb pi to mix up 0
- abbreviation PI Philippine Islands 0
- abbreviation PI private investigator 0
- noun pi a mixed, disordered collection of printing type 0
- noun pi any jumble or mixture 0
- verb transitive pi to make jumbled; mix up (type) 0
- noun pi the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet (Π, π) 0
- noun pi the symbol (π) designating the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter 0
- noun pi the ratio itself, equal to 3.14159265+: often approximated as 22⁄7 0