pp

See also: PP, pp., p&p, P-P, P&P, p.p., p. p., and Appendix:Variations of "pp"

Translingual

Adverb

pp

  1. pianissimo
  2. per procurationem - Latin for by agency or by proxy - used on a letter to indicate that has been signed on somebody else's behalf.

English

Alternative forms
  • (pages): pp.
  • (percentage point): %p (non standard)

Etymology

Noun

pp pl (plural only)

  1. plural of p; abbreviation of pages

Translations

Noun

pp (countable and uncountable, plural pps)

  1. (countable) Initialism of percentage point.
  2. (uncountable, physics) proton and proton (used attributively to describe a collision or other interaction of these two particles)
    • 2015, Christine O. Rasmussen, Torbjörn Sjöstrand, “Hard Diffraction with Dynamic Gap Survival”, in arXiv‎:
      Comparisons with ppbar and pp data reveal improvement in the description of single diffractive events..
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