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  • parent company — a corporation or other business enterprise that owns controlling interests in one or more subsidiary companies (distinguished from holding company).
  • parent process — (operating system)   The Unix process that created one or more other processes. Every process except process 0 is created when another process executes the fork system call. The process that invoked fork is the parent process, and the newly created process is the child process. Every process has one parent process, but can have many child processes. The kernel identifies each process by its process identifier (PID). Process 0 is a special process that is created when the system boots; after forking a child process (process 1), process 0 becomes the swapper process. Process 1, known as init, is the ancestor of every other process in the system and enjoys a special relationship with them.
  • penalty corner — a free hit from the goal line taken by the attacking side
  • pentecostarion — a service book of offices for the period from Easter to the Sunday after Pentecost.
  • percutaneously — through the skin
  • peritoneoscopy — an endoscopy examining the peritoneal cavity
  • perlocutionary — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
  • permanent echo — a radar signal reflected to a radar station on the ground by a building or other fixed object.
  • pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • phonochemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of sound and ultrasonic waves
  • phonoreception — the physiological perception of sound.
  • phosphorescent — exhibiting phosphorescence.
  • photoreception — the physiological perception of light.
  • photorecording — the act of making photographic records, especially of documents.
  • photoreduction — a reduction reaction induced by light.
  • piano concerto — a musical piece composed for the piano accompanied by an orchestra
  • picture window — a large window in a house, usually dominating the room or wall in which it is located, and often designed or placed to present an attractive view.
  • pithecanthrope — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the former genus Pithecanthropus.
  • pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • point calimere — a cape on the SE coast of India, on the Palk Strait
  • polar distance — codeclination.
  • port-au-prince — Formerly Hayti. a republic in the West Indies occupying the W part of the island of Hispaniola. 10,714 sq. mi. (27,750 sq. km). Capital: Port-au-Prince.
  • post-cartesian — of or relating to Descartes, his mathematical methods, or his philosophy, especially with regard to its emphasis on logical analysis and its mechanistic interpretation of physical nature.
  • post-pregnancy — the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant.
  • postexperience — taking place after a particular experience
  • potentiometric — a device for measuring electromotive force or potential difference by comparison with a known voltage.
  • potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
  • pre-accounting — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
  • pre-inspection — the act of inspecting or viewing, especially carefully or critically: an inspection of all luggage on the plane.
  • preacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • preapplication — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
  • precalculation — the act or process of calculating; computation.
  • precious stone — a gem distinguished for its beauty and rarity, used in jewelry.
  • precipitinogen — Immunology. an antigen that stimulates precipitin production or that reacts with antibody in an immunoprecipitation reaction.
  • preconceptions — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
  • preconcertedly — in a preconcerted or preplanned manner
  • preconditioned — something that must come before or is necessary to a subsequent result; condition: a precondition for a promotion.
  • preconsonantal — immediately preceding a consonant.
  • precontractual — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
  • predicate noun — a noun used in the predicate with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and having the same referent as the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb, as in She is the mayor or They elected her mayor.
  • prefabrication — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
  • preincarnation — a previous incarnation or an existence before incarnation.
  • prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
  • pretransaction — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
  • prettification — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.
  • preunification — of the period before unification
  • price controls — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
  • prince consort — a prince who is the husband of a reigning female sovereign.
  • private income — econ: from outside employment
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