Pi

Quick meaning: Pi is a noun meaning The sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek.

Meaning

The sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek.

More Meanings

1. (letterpress typography) Metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered.
2. (letterpress typography) To spill or mix printing type.
3. (typography) Not part of the usual font character set; especially, non-Roman type or symbols as opposed to standard alphanumeric Roman type.
4. (typography) pica (conventionally, 12 points = 1 pica, 6 picas = 1 inch).
5. Piaster.
6. (mathematics) An irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its diameter; approximately 3.14159265.

Example Sentences

In computing, pi characters may be entered with special key combinations.

“Those are very 'pi' sentiments. Was a preacher in Staffordshire— I was raised chapel, though've tried to forget it—he talked that way... redemption and the lot.”

Our Major was "Cherub" Cheeseman, noted for his foul language. I am afraid he lost a tidy little legacy that he was expecting from his aunt, the Dowager Lady Shuttlecock (a very "pi" old lady), through this same habit of his.

In Sense and Sensibility, as even you might agree, there's at least the danger of a rather pi moral framework clamping down on the spontaneous fun and leaving the sisters to survive - a bit drearily - on the periphery of a mean world.

Synonyms for pi

Depending on context, synonyms include operative, sherlock.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include operative, sherlock, plc, pie, area, detective.

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