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P is the sixteenth letter of the ISO basic Latin alphabet. P may also refer to: * P, in Greek alphabet, the
Rho Rho (uppercase Ρ, lowercase ρ or ; el, ρο or el, ρω, label=none) is the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 100. It is derived from Phoenician letter res . Its uppercase form uses the sa ...
, the lowercase p is also sometimes confused with Rho ρ or * P, in Cyrillic alphabet, the Er * siglum for New Testament papyrus with Gregory-Aland number ''n'' * In linguistics, P (also O), the patient-like argument (object) of a canonical transitive verb * Encircled P, or ℗, is the
sound recording copyright symbol The sound recording copyright symbol or phonogram symbol, represented by the graphic symbol , is the copyright symbol used to provide notice of copyright in a sound recording (phonogram) embodied in a phonorecord ( LPs, audiotapes, cassette ta ...
* p., an abbreviation for
page Page most commonly refers to: * Page (paper), one side of a leaf of paper, as in a book Page, PAGE, pages, or paging may also refer to: Roles * Page (assistance occupation), a professional occupation * Page (servant), traditionally a young m ...
when referencing a page number in a print publication * Portugal country code in the
vehicle registration plates of the European Union A vehicle registration plate, also known as a number plate (British English), license plate or licence plate ( American English and Canadian English respectively), is a metal or plastic plate or plates attached to a motor vehicle or trailer for ...
* Parking, see also Parking (disambiguation). * P (Nazi symbol), worn by Polish forced labourers during Nazi occupation *P, the aircraft registration prefix for North Korean planes *P, an abbreviation of gridiron football position punter


Arts, literature and music

* P, code for the Paris Herbarium at the ''
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the ' (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a ' of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities. The main museum, with four galleries, is loc ...
'' * P, the ancient Greek author of the ''
Hellenica Oxyrhynchia ''Hellenica Oxyrhynchia'' is an Ancient Greek history of classical Greece in the late 5th and early 4th centuries BCE, of which papyrus fragments were unearthed at Oxyrhynchus, in Egypt. The author, whose name is not recorded in the surviving fragm ...
'' * P, the production code for the 1965 ''Doctor Who'' serial '' The Crusade'' * ''P'' (film), a 2005 Thai film * '' "P" Is for Peril'', a 2001 novel by Sue Grafton * ''P'', an abbreviation of ''
Pinxit (from Latin: "one painted") is a stylized amendment added to the signature depiction of the name of the person responsible for a work of art, found conventionally in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It is sometimes abbreviated ''P'', ''P ...
'' * ''p'' or ''piano'', a
dynamic Dynamics (from Greek δυναμικός ''dynamikos'' "powerful", from δύναμις ''dynamis'' "power") or dynamic may refer to: Physics and engineering * Dynamics (mechanics) ** Aerodynamics, the study of the motion of air ** Analytical dyna ...
direction to play softly * P, priestly source of the Hebrew Bible * Agent P, the codename for
Perry the Platypus Perry the Platypus (also known as Agent P or Perry) is a fictional bipedal platypus from the American animated series ''Phineas and Ferb'' and '' Milo Murphy's Law''. Perry was created by Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh. Perry is featured ...
in ''
Phineas and Ferb ''Phineas and Ferb'' is an American animated musical-comedy television series created by Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh for Disney Channel and Disney XD. Produced by Disney Television Animation, the series was originally broadcast as ...
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Music

* P (band), a 1993–95 American alternative rock band ** ''P'' (album), the 1995 eponymous release by American alternative rock band P * "P," a song from the Venetian Snares album '' Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms'' * "P", a song by American rapper Jaden from his 2019 album ''
ERYS ''Erys'' (stylized in all caps and pronounced "Iris") is the second studio album by American rapper Jaden Smith, Jaden, released on July 5, 2019, through MSFTSMusic and Roc Nation. It is the follow-up to 2017's ''Syre (album), Syre'', and feature ...
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Computing

* P(), the usual name for the operation to acquire a semaphore * , the HTML element used to create a paragraph * P-type semiconductor *
P (programming language) P is a programming language for asynchronous event-driven programming and the IoT that was developed by Microsoft and University of California, Berkeley. P enables programmers to specify systems consisting of a collection of state machines that c ...
, developed by Microsoft and UC, Berkeley * Primitive programming language
P′′ P′′ (P double prime) is a primitive computer programming language created by Corrado BöhmBöhm, C.: "On a family of Turing machines and the related programming language", ICC Bull. 3, 185-194, July 1964.Böhm, C. and Jacopini, G.: "Flow diagr ...
* p, a suffix unit for
video resolution The display resolution or display modes of a digital television, computer monitor or display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed. It can be an ambiguous term especially as the displayed resolution is ...
(vertical Progressive-scan lines), as in 720p or 1080p


Mathematics

* ''p''-value, in statistical hypothesis testing *
P (complexity) In computational complexity theory, P, also known as PTIME or DTIME(''n''O(1)), is a fundamental complexity class. It contains all decision problems that can be solved by a deterministic Turing machine using a polynomial amount of computation tim ...
, a complexity class in computational complexity theory * #P complexity class * P, universal parabolic constant * Pi * P or \mathbb - the set of all
primes A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that is not a product of two smaller natural numbers. A natural number greater than 1 that is not prime is called a composite number. For example, 5 is prime because the only ways ...
and p an individual prime * ℘-functions or p-functions, are the
Weierstrass elliptic function In mathematics, the Weierstrass elliptic functions are elliptic functions that take a particularly simple form. They are named for Karl Weierstrass. This class of functions are also referred to as ℘-functions and they are usually denoted by t ...
* p-series, is a common name for the
Harmonic series (mathematics) In mathematics, the harmonic series is the infinite series formed by summing all positive unit fractions: \sum_^\infty\frac = 1 + \frac + \frac + \frac + \frac + \cdots. The first n terms of the series sum to approximately \ln n + \gamma, whe ...
* , Projective space


Money, corporate

* P (instead of ), a symbol often used for the
Philippine peso The Philippine peso, also referred to by its Tagalog name ''piso'' (Philippine English: , , plural pesos; tl, piso ; sign: ₱; code: PHP), is the official currency of the Philippines. It is subdivided into 100 ''sentimo'', also called ...
* p is a symbol for penny * P, the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for
Pandora Media, Inc. Pandora is a subscription-based music streaming service owned by Sirius XM Holdings based in Oakland, California, United States. The service carries a focus on recommendations based on the " Music Genome Project" — a means of classifying in ...
, the corporate owner of Pandora Radio * P,
Panasonic formerly between 1935 and 2008 and the first incarnation of between 2008 and 2022, is a major Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka. It was founded by Kōnosuke Matsushita in 1918 as a lightbulb ...
's mobile phones in Japan *
Railpower Technologies Railpower Technologies is a subsidiary of R.J. Corman Railroad Group that builds environmentally friendly hybrid Green Goat and Genset switching locomotives, founded by Frank Donnelly and Gerard Koldyk. Its locomotives have been purchased by ...
(TSX: P), a Canadian company that builds environmentally friendly hybrid yard locomotives


Science

* p, the symbol for momentum in physics * P, the symbol for power (physics) * P, the symbol for
proposition In logic and linguistics, a proposition is the meaning of a declarative sentence. In philosophy, " meaning" is understood to be a non-linguistic entity which is shared by all sentences with the same meaning. Equivalently, a proposition is the no ...
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Pulse In medicine, a pulse represents the tactile arterial palpation of the cardiac cycle (heartbeat) by trained fingertips. The pulse may be palpated in any place that allows an artery to be compressed near the surface of the body, such as at the n ...
, the rate of heartbeats * Poise, the unit for dynamic viscosity in the centimetre gram second system of units *
Phosphorus Phosphorus is a chemical element with the symbol P and atomic number 15. Elemental phosphorus exists in two major forms, white phosphorus and red phosphorus, but because it is highly reactive, phosphorus is never found as a free element on Ear ...
, symbol P, a chemical element * p, the symbol for
pressure Pressure (symbol: ''p'' or ''P'') is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed. Gauge pressure (also spelled ''gage'' pressure)The preferred spelling varies by country and e ...
* p, the SI prefix symbol for
pico- A metric prefix is a unit prefix that precedes a basic unit of measure to indicate a multiple or submultiple of the unit. All metric prefixes used today are decadic. Each prefix has a unique symbol that is prepended to any unit symbol. The pre ...
, 10−12 * P, the SI prefix symbol for
Peta- A metric prefix is a unit prefix that precedes a basic unit of measure to indicate a multiple or submultiple of the unit. All metric prefixes used today are decadic. Each prefix has a unique symbol that is prepended to any unit symbol. The pre ...
, 1012 * p, approximates the negative common logarithm (base 10) in pH, the measure of acidity or basicity * Haplogroup P (mtDNA), a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup *
Haplogroup P (Y-DNA) Haplogroup P also known as P-P295 and K2b2 is a Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup in human genetics. P-P295 is a branch of K2b (previously Haplogroup MPS; P331), which is a branch of Haplogroup K2 (K-M526). The only primary branches (clades) of P-P ...
, a Y-chromosomal DNA (Y-DNA) haplogroup * Methamphetamine, nicknamed "P" in New Zealand * p designates the short arm of a chromosome * ATC code P ''Antiparasitic products, insecticides and repellents'', a section of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System * Proline, an amino acid abbreviated P or Pro


Other uses

* Papa, the military time zone code for UTC−03:00


See also

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Pea (disambiguation) A pea is a small spherical seed or the seed-pod of various plants commonly used as a source of food, particularly ''Pisum sativum''. Pea or PEA may also refer to: Geography * Pea River, Alabama, US * Peas Creek, a stream in Iowa Medicine * P ...
* Pee (disambiguation) *
Rho (disambiguation) Rho (Ρ or ρ) is a letter of the Greek alphabet. __NOTOC__ Rho or RHO also may refer to: Science and medicine * Rho family of GTPases :* RHOA :* RHOB :* RhoC * RHO (gene), or Rhodopsin ρ as a conventional symbol ;in mathematics * A leng ...
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