pp

See also: 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

Etymology

Abbreviations.

Noun

pp (countable and uncountable, plural pps)

1. (countable) Initialism of percentage point.

   Alternative forms: p.p., %p

2. (grammar) Initialism of past participle.

   Alternative forms: pp., p.p., p. p., PP

   Coordinate terms: pres. part., pres.part.

3. (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^[1]:

     Comparisons with ppbar and pp data reveal improvement in the description of single diffractive events.

4. Eye dialect spelling of pee-pee.

Related terms

• ppbar

Adverb

pp (not comparable)

1. Initialism of per person.

Noun

pp pl (plural only)

1. Abbreviation of pages (plural of p).

   Alternative form: pp.

Translations

pages — see pp.

French

Noun

pp m

1. (countable) initialism of photo de profil (“profile picture”)

Malay

Noun

pp (plural pp-pp or pp²)

1. (Internet, text messaging) abbreviation of perempuan (“female, woman”)

Portuguese

Noun

pp m

1. (countable) initialism of ponto percentual or ponto de percentagem.

   Alternative forms: p.p., %p, %pt