pi
/paɪ/ · noun
Meaning
- The 16th letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek.
- An irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its diameter; approximately 3.14159265358979323846264338327950; usually written π.
- Metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered.
- To spill or mix printing type.
- Not part of the usual font character set; especially, non-Roman type or symbols as opposed to standard alphanumeric Roman type.
- Pica (conventionally, 12 points = 1 pica, 6 picas ≈ 1 inch)
- Piaster
- Pious
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