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English Dictionary: per by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Per- \Per-\ [See {Per}.]
      1. A prefix used to signify through, throughout, by, for, or
            as an intensive as perhaps, by hap or chance; perennial,
            that lasts throughout the year; perforce, through or by
            force; perfoliate, perforate; perspicuous, evident
            throughout or very evident; perplex, literally, to
            entangle very much.
  
      2. (Chem.) Originally, denoting that the element to the name
            of which it is prefixed in the respective compounds
            exercised its highest valence; now, only that the element
            has a higher valence than in other similar compounds;
            thus, barium peroxide is the highest oxide of barium;
            while nitrogen and manganese peroxides, so-called, are not
            the highest oxides of those elements.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Per \Per\, prep. [L. Cf. {Far}, {For-}, {Pardon}, and cf. {Par},
      prep.]
      Through; by means of; through the agency of; by; for; for
      each; as, per annum; per capita, by heads, or according to
      individuals; per curiam, by the court; per se, by itself, of
      itself. Per is also sometimes used with English words.
  
      {Per annum}, by the year; in each successive year; annually.
           
  
      {Per cent}, {Per centum}, by the hundred; in the hundred; --
            used esp. of proportions of ingredients, rate or amount of
            interest, and the like; commonly used in the shortened
            form per cent.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   PER
  
      1. {Packed Encoding Rules}.
  
      2. {partial equivalence relation}.
  
      (1998-05-27)
  
  
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