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noun
- The name of the sixteenth letter of the Classical Greek, Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek.
- (mathematics) An irrational constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter; approximately 3.1415926535897932; usually written �, where pi x diameter = Circumference.
- (context, typesetting) Metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered. Also called pie.
Translations: - French: pi
- German: Pi
- Italian: pi greco
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- Spanish: pi
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(trans-top, metal type that has been spilled)
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(trans-bottom)
verb (pies, piing, pied)
- (context, typesetting) To spill or mix printing type. Also, "to pie".
adjective
- (context, typesetting) Not part of the usual font character set; especially, non-Roman type or symbols as opposed to standard alphanumeric Roman type.
- In computing, characters are entered with special combinations of keys like ctrl-alt-x, or via character sequences such as <tt>&
- 123;</tt>.
Translations: abbreviation
- (context, typesetting) pica (conventionally, 12 points = 1 pica, 6 picas = 1 inch)
- piaster
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