4-letter words containing p, m
- mips — 1. (unit, benchmark) Million instructions per second. The unit commonly used to give the rate at which a processor executes instructions. Often rendered by hackers as "Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed" or in other unflattering ways. This expresses a nearly universal attitude about the value of most benchmark claims, said attitude being one of the great cultural divides between hackers and marketroids. The etymologically incorrect singular "1 MIP" is sometimes heard. See also KIPS and GIPS. 2. VAX MIPS. 3. (processor) Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages. 4. (company) MIPS Technologies, Inc.
- mmap — The Unix system call which establishes a mapping between a range of addresses in a user process's address space and a portion of some "memory object" (typically a file, one of the special "devices" /dev/mem or /dev/kmem or some memory-mapped peripheral). This allows the process to access a file at random byte offsets without using the seek system call or to access physical addresses or kernel's virtual address space. It can also be used as an alternative to writing a device driver since it is usually simpler to code and faster to use.
- mmpi — Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
- mope — to be sunk in dejection or listless apathy; sulk; brood.
- mops — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mop.
- mopy — languishing, listless, droopy, or glum.
- moup — to nibble with a fast movement of the lips
- mp-1 — Assembly language for the MasPar computer.
- mp/m — a multiuser operating system that resembles a CP/M
- mpaa — Motion Picture Association of America
- mpeg — Moving Picture Experts Group
- mpla — Movimento Popular de Libertacão de Angola: a political party that has ruled Mozambique since the country gained independence from Portugal in 1975
- mpls — Multiprotocol Label Switching
- mppe — Microsoft Point to Point Encryption
- mppl — (language) An early possible name for PL/I.
- mpsx — Mathematical Programming System Extended. Solution strategy for mathematical programming. "Mathematical Programming System Extended (MPSX) Control Language User's Manual", SH20-0932, IBM. Sammet 1978.
- mrcp — Member of the Royal College of Physicians
- msrp — Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price
- mufp — A functional language for hardware design, a predecessor of Ruby.
- mump — to cheat.
- nmpa — National Master Processing Agreement
- palm — any of numerous plants of the family Palmae, most species being tall, unbranched trees surmounted by a crown of large pinnate or palmately cleft leaves. Compare palm family.
- parm — /parm/ Further-compressed form of param. This term is an IBMism, and written use is almost unknown outside IBM shops; spoken /parm/ is more widely distributed, but the synonym arg is favoured among hackers. Compare var.
- pbem — play by electronic mail
- perm — a city in the E Russian Federation in Europe, on the Kama River.
- phlm — Philemon
- pima — a member of an Indian people of southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
- pimp — a person, especially a man, who solicits customers for a prostitute or a brothel, usually in return for a share of the earnings; pander; procurer.
- pium — a type of small, black, stinging fly from S America
- plim — full or plump
- plmk — (chat) please let me know.
- plum — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- pmbx — Private Manual Branch eXchange
- pmqs — (in the UK) Prime Minister's questions
- poem — a composition in verse, especially one that is characterized by a highly developed artistic form and by the use of heightened language and rhythm to express an intensely imaginative interpretation of the subject.
- pome — the characteristic fruit of the apple family, as an apple, pear, or quince, in which the edible flesh arises from the greatly swollen receptacle and not from the carpels.
- pomo — postmodern.
- pomp — stately or splendid display; splendor; magnificence.
- pram — a flat-bottomed, snub-nosed boat used as a fishing vessel or tender for larger vessels.
- prem — a premature infant
- prim — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
- prmd — primary management domain
- prml — Partial Response Maximum Likelihood
- prom — Programmable Read-Only Memory
- psml — Processor System Modeling Language.
- puma — cougar.
- pump — a lightweight, low-cut shoe without fastenings for women.
- qmqp — Quick Mail Queueing Protocol
- qmtp — Quick Mail Transfer Protocol
- ramp — a wild onion, Allium tricoccum, of the amaryllis family, of eastern North America, having flat leaves and rounded clusters of whitish flowers; eaten raw or used as a flavoring in cooked foods.