plimsole
noun
Meaning
- A rubber-soled lace-up canvas shoe for sports or onboard ships; a precursor of trainers.
- The plimsoll symbol ⦵ (or o) that is used as a superscript in the notation of thermodynamics to indicate an arbitrarily chosen non-zero reference point.
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