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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.
  • parking ticket — written notice of a parking violation
  • particularness — the quality of being exceptional or individual
  • parturifacient — inducing or accelerating labor, or childbirth; oxytocic.
  • patheticalness — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
  • peace movement — a movement seeking to end wars and reduce nuclear weapons
  • pectinesterase — an enzyme present in plants, and some bacteria and fungi, which hydrolyses pectin
  • pedanticalness — ostentatious in one's learning.
  • peel-and-stick — ready to be applied after peeling off the backing to expose an adhesive surface: peel-and-stick labels.
  • penalty clause — part of contract specifying a forfeit
  • penalty corner — a free hit from the goal line taken by the attacking side
  • pendulum watch — (formerly) a watch having a balance wheel, especially a balance wheel bearing a fake pendulum bob oscillating behind a window in the dial.
  • pennatulaceous — of or relating to a sea pen
  • pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
  • pentanoic acid — colourless liquid carboxylic acid
  • pentecostarion — a service book of offices for the period from Easter to the Sunday after Pentecost.
  • pentyl acetate — a colourless combustible liquid used as a solvent for paints, in the extraction of penicillin, in photographic film, and as a flavouring. Formula: CH3COOC5H11
  • percutaneously — through the skin
  • 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.
  • persian carpet — a handwoven carpet or rug produced in Iran and characterized by fine warp and filling yarns, a usually tight, even pile made with the Sehna knot, and a variety of floral, foliate, animal, and avian designs woven in rich, harmonious colors.
  • pertinaciously — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • petty criminal — someone who commits petty crime or a petty crime
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • phenotypically — the observable constitution of an organism.
  • phenyl acetate — a colorless, water-insoluble liquid, C 8 H 8 O 2 , having a phenolic odor: used chiefly as a solvent.
  • phthalocyanine — Also called metal-free phthalocyanine. a blue-green pigment, C 3 2 H 1 8 N 8 , derived from phthalic anhydride.
  • piano concerto — a musical piece composed for the piano accompanied by an orchestra
  • pinealectomize — to perform a pinealectomy on (a person or animal)
  • pithecanthrope — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the former genus Pithecanthropus.
  • placement test — a test to determine a student's level of ability in one or more subjects in order to place the student with others of the same approximate ability.
  • planetological — involving or relating to planetology
  • platinocyanide — a salt of platinocyanic acid.
  • pneumatic duct — the duct joining the air bladder and alimentary canal of a physostomous fish.
  • pneumatic pile — a hollow pile, used under water, in which a vacuum is induced so that air and water pressure force it into place.
  • pneumatic tire — wheel cover filled with pressurized air
  • pneumatic tyre — a rubber tyre filled with air under pressure, used esp on motor vehicles
  • 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.
  • police station — police headquarters for a particular district, from which police officers are dispatched and to which persons under arrest are brought.
  • 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.
  • postadolescent — growing to manhood or womanhood; youthful.
  • practice nurse — a nurse who works in a medical practice or surgery
  • pre-acceptance — the act of taking or receiving something offered.
  • pre-accounting — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
  • pre-anticipate — to realize beforehand; foretaste or foresee: to anticipate pleasure.
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