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parafovea
n 1: area of the retina immediately surrounding the fovea

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parvovirus n any of a group of viruses containing DNA in an icosahedral protein shell and causing disease in dogs and cattle; not known to be associated with any human disease Synonym(s): parvovirus, parvo
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pervaporate v evaporate through a semipermeable membrane cause (a liquid) to evaporate through a semipermeable membrane
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pervaporation n the concentration of a colloidal solution whose colloid will not pass through a semipermeable membrane; solution is placed in a bag of the membrane and the solvent is evaporated off
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poor people n people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group); "the urban poor need assistance" Synonym(s): poor people, poor Antonym(s): rich, rich people
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power of appointment n authority given (in a will or deed) by a donor to a donee to appoint the beneficiaries of the donor's property
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prefab adj manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere; "a pre structure" n a prefabricated structure
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prefabricate v to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings Synonym(s): prefabricate, preassemble produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally
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prefabrication n the manufacture of sections of a building at the factory so they can be easily and rapidly assembled at the building site
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prepubertal adj (especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth Synonym(s): prepubescent, prepubertal
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prepuberty n a period of two years immediately prior to the onset of puberty when growth and changes leading to sexual maturity occur
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prepubescent adj (especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth Synonym(s): prepubescent, prepubertal
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prepupal adj of an inactive stage in the development of some insects, between the larval and the pupal stages; "the prepupal stage"
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privy purse n allowance for a monarch's personal expenses
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probabilism n a Roman Catholic system of casuistry that when expert opinions differ an actor can follow any solidly probable opinion that he wishes even though some different opinion might be more probable (philosophy) the doctrine that (since certainty is unattainable) probability is a sufficient basis for belief and action
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probabilistic adj of or relating to the Roman Catholic philosophy of probabilism of or relating to or based on probability; "probabilistic quantum theory"
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probabilistically adv by the use of probability theory; "we can calculate the position of the particles probabilistically"
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probability n a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible; "the probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5" Synonym(s): probability, chance the quality of being probable; a probable event or the most probable event; "for a while mutiny seemed a probability"; "going by past experience there was a high probability that the visitors were lost" Antonym(s): improbability, improbableness
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probability theorist n a mathematician who specializes in probability theory
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probability theory n the branch of applied mathematics that deals with probabilities Synonym(s): probability theory, theory of probability
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probable adj likely but not certain to be or become true or real; "a likely result"; "he foresaw a probable loss" Synonym(s): probable, likely Antonym(s): improbable, unlikely apparently destined; "the probable consequences of going ahead with the scheme" n an applicant likely to be chosen
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probable cause n (law) evidence sufficient to warrant an arrest or search and seizure; "a magistrate determined that there was probable cause to search the house"
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probably adv with considerable certainty; without much doubt; "He is probably out of the country"; "in all likelihood we are headed for war" Synonym(s): probably, likely, in all likelihood, in all probability, belike easy to believe on the basis of available evidence; "he talked plausibly before the committee"; "he will probably win the election" Synonym(s): credibly, believably, plausibly, probably Antonym(s): implausibly, improbably, incredibly, unbelievably
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prop up v support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building" Synonym(s): prop up, prop, shore up, shore
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provability n capability of being demonstrated or logically proved [syn: demonstrability, provability]
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provable adj capable of being demonstrated or proved; "obvious lies"; "a demonstrable lack of concern for the general welfare"; "practical truth provable to all men"- Walter Bagehot Synonym(s): demonstrable, provable
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provably adv in an obvious and provable manner; "his documentary sources are demonstrably wrong" Synonym(s): demonstrably, provably, incontrovertibly
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pyrophobia n a morbid fear of fire
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Parapeptone \Par`a*pep"tone\, n. [Pref. para- + peptone.] (Phisiol. Chem.) An albuminous body formed in small quantity by the peptic digestion of proteids. It can be converted into peptone by pancreatic juice, but not by gastric juice.
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Parapophysis \Par`apoph"ysis\, n.; pl. {Parapophyses}. [NL. See {Para-}, and {Apophysis}.] (Anat.) The ventral transverse, or capitular, process of a vertebra. See {Vertebra}. -- {Parap`ophys"ic*al}, a.
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Parapophysis \Par`apoph"ysis\, n.; pl. {Parapophyses}. [NL. See {Para-}, and {Apophysis}.] (Anat.) The ventral transverse, or capitular, process of a vertebra. See {Vertebra}. -- {Parap`ophys"ic*al}, a.
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Parapophysis \Par`apoph"ysis\, n.; pl. {Parapophyses}. [NL. See {Para-}, and {Apophysis}.] (Anat.) The ventral transverse, or capitular, process of a vertebra. See {Vertebra}. -- {Parap`ophys"ic*al}, a.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
7. A large quantity; a great number; as, a power o[?] good things. [Colloq.] --Richardson. 8. (Mech.) (a) The rate at which mechanical energy is exerted or mechanical work performed, as by an engine or other machine, or an animal, working continuously; as, an engine of twenty horse power. Note: The English unit of power used most commonly is the horse power. See {Horse power}. (b) A mechanical agent; that from which useful mechanical energy is derived; as, water power; steam power; hand power, etc. (c) Applied force; force producing motion or pressure; as, the power applied at one and of a lever to lift a weight at the other end. Note: This use in mechanics, of power as a synonym for force, is improper and is becoming obsolete. (d) A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to drive other machinery; as, a dog power. Note: Power is used adjectively, denoting, driven, or adapted to be driven, by machinery, and not actuated directly by the hand or foot; as, a power lathe; a power loom; a power press. 9. (Math.) The product arising from the multiplication of a number into itself; as, a square is the second power, and a cube is third power, of a number. 10. (Metaph.) Mental or moral ability to act; one of the faculties which are possessed by the mind or soul; as, the power of thinking, reasoning, judging, willing, fearing, hoping, etc. --I. Watts. The guiltiness of my mind, the sudden surprise of my powers, drove the grossness . . . into a received belief. --Shak. 11. (Optics) The degree to which a lens, mirror, or any optical instrument, magnifies; in the telescope, and usually in the microscope, the number of times it multiplies, or augments, the apparent diameter of an object; sometimes, in microscopes, the number of times it multiplies the apparent surface. 12. (Law) An authority enabling a person to dispose of an interest vested either in himself or in another person; ownership by appointment. --Wharton. 13. Hence, vested authority to act in a given case; as, the business was referred to a committee with power. Note: Power may be predicated of inanimate agents, like the winds and waves, electricity and magnetism, gravitation, etc., or of animal and intelligent beings; and when predicated of these beings, it may indicate physical, mental, or moral ability or capacity. {Mechanical powers}. See under {Mechanical}. {Power loom}, [or] {Power press}. See Def. 8 (d), note. {Power of attorney}. See under {Attorney}. {Power of a point} (relative to a given curve) (Geom.), the result of substituting the co[94]rdinates of any point in that expression which being put equal to zero forms the equation of the curve; as, x^{2} + y^{2} - 100 is the power of the point x, y, relative to the circle x^{2} + y^{2} - 100 = 0.
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Pr91oral \Pr[91]o"ral\, n., Pr91pubis \Pr[91]pu"bis\, n., Pr91scapula \Pr[91]scap"ula\, n., Pr91scutum \Pr[91]scu"tum\, n., Pr91sternum \Pr[91]ster"num\, n. Same as {Preoral}, {Prepubis}, {Prescapula}, etc.
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Prepubic \Pre*pu"bic\, a. (Anat.) Situated in front of, or anterior to, the pubis; pertaining to the prepubis.
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Privy \Priv"y\, a. [F. priv[82], fr. L. privatus. See {Private}.] 1. Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse. [bd] Privee knights and squires.[b8] --Chaucer. 2. Secret; clandestine. [bd] A privee thief.[b8] --Chaucer. 3. Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public. [bd] Privy chambers.[b8] --Ezek. xxi. 14. 4. Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing. His wife also being privy to it. --Acts v. 2. Myself am one made privy to the plot. --Shak. {Privy chamber}, a private apartment in a royal residence. [Eng.] {Privy council} (Eng. Law), the principal council of the sovereign, composed of the cabinet ministers and other persons chosen by the king or queen. --Burrill. {Privy councilor}, a member of the privy council. {Privy purse}, moneys set apart for the personal use of the monarch; also, the title of the person having charge of these moneys. [Eng.] --Macaulay. {Privy seal} [or] {signed}, the seal which the king uses in grants, etc., which are to pass the great seal, or which the uses in matters of subordinate consequence which do not require the great seal; also, elliptically, the principal secretary of state, or person intrusted with the privy seal. [Eng.] {Privy verdict}, a verdict given privily to the judge out of court; -- now disused. --Burrill.
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Privy \Priv"y\, a. [F. priv[82], fr. L. privatus. See {Private}.] 1. Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse. [bd] Privee knights and squires.[b8] --Chaucer. 2. Secret; clandestine. [bd] A privee thief.[b8] --Chaucer. 3. Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public. [bd] Privy chambers.[b8] --Ezek. xxi. 14. 4. Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing. His wife also being privy to it. --Acts v. 2. Myself am one made privy to the plot. --Shak. {Privy chamber}, a private apartment in a royal residence. [Eng.] {Privy council} (Eng. Law), the principal council of the sovereign, composed of the cabinet ministers and other persons chosen by the king or queen. --Burrill. {Privy councilor}, a member of the privy council. {Privy purse}, moneys set apart for the personal use of the monarch; also, the title of the person having charge of these moneys. [Eng.] --Macaulay. {Privy seal} [or] {signed}, the seal which the king uses in grants, etc., which are to pass the great seal, or which the uses in matters of subordinate consequence which do not require the great seal; also, elliptically, the principal secretary of state, or person intrusted with the privy seal. [Eng.] {Privy verdict}, a verdict given privily to the judge out of court; -- now disused. --Burrill.
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Probabiliorism \Prob`abil"io*rism\, n. The doctrine of the probabiliorists.
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Probabiliorist \Prob`abil"io*rist\, n. [From L. probabilior, compar. of probabilis probable.] (Casuistry) One who holds, in opposition to the probabilists, that a man is bound to do that which is most probably right.
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Probabilism \Prob"abilism\, n. [Cf. F. probabilisme.] The doctrine of the probabilists.
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Probabilist \Prob"abilist\, n. [Cf. F. probabilists.] 1. One who maintains that certainty is impossible, and that probability alone is to govern our faith and actions. 2. (Casuistry) One who maintains that a man may do that which has a probability of being right, or which is inculcated by teachers of authority, although other opinions may seem to him still more probable.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Probability \Prob`abil"ity\, n.; pl. {Probabilities}. [L. probabilitas: cf. F. probabilit[82].] 1. The quality or state of being probable; appearance of reality or truth; reasonable ground of presumption; likelihood. Probability is the appearance of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas, by the intervention of proofs whose connection is not constant, but appears for the most part to be so. --Locke. 2. That which is or appears probable; anything that has the appearance of reality or truth. The whole life of man is a perpetual comparison of evidence and balancing of probabilities. --Buckminster. We do not call for evidence till antecedent probabilities fail. --J. H. Newman. 3. (Math.) Likelihood of the occurrence of any event in the doctrine of chances, or the ratio of the number of favorable chances to the whole number of chances, favorable and unfavorable. See 1st {Chance}, n., 5. Syn: Likeliness; credibleness; likelihood; chance.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Probability \Prob`abil"ity\, n.; pl. {Probabilities}. [L. probabilitas: cf. F. probabilit[82].] 1. The quality or state of being probable; appearance of reality or truth; reasonable ground of presumption; likelihood. Probability is the appearance of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas, by the intervention of proofs whose connection is not constant, but appears for the most part to be so. --Locke. 2. That which is or appears probable; anything that has the appearance of reality or truth. The whole life of man is a perpetual comparison of evidence and balancing of probabilities. --Buckminster. We do not call for evidence till antecedent probabilities fail. --J. H. Newman. 3. (Math.) Likelihood of the occurrence of any event in the doctrine of chances, or the ratio of the number of favorable chances to the whole number of chances, favorable and unfavorable. See 1st {Chance}, n., 5. Syn: Likeliness; credibleness; likelihood; chance.
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Probable \Prob"a*ble\, a. [L. probabilis, fr. probare to try, approve, prove: cf. F. probable. See {Prove}, and cf. {Provable}.] 1. Capable of being proved. [Obs.] 2. Having more evidence for than against; supported by evidence which inclines the mind to believe, but leaves some room for doubt; likely. That is accounted probable which has better arguments producible for it than can be brought against it. --South. I do not say that the principles of religion are merely probable; I have before asserted them to be morally certain. --Bp. Wilkins.
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3. Rendering probable; supporting, or giving ground for, belief, but not demonstrating; as, probable evidence; probable presumption. --Blackstone. {Probable cause} (Law), a reasonable ground of presumption that a charge is, or my be, well founded. {Probable error} (of an observation, or of the mean of a number), that within which, taken positively and negatively, there is an even chance that the real error shall lie. Thus, if 3[sec] is the probable error in a given case, the chances that the real error is greater than 3[sec] are equal to the chances that it is less. The probable error is computed from the observations made, and is used to express their degree of accuracy.
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3. Rendering probable; supporting, or giving ground for, belief, but not demonstrating; as, probable evidence; probable presumption. --Blackstone. {Probable cause} (Law), a reasonable ground of presumption that a charge is, or my be, well founded. {Probable error} (of an observation, or of the mean of a number), that within which, taken positively and negatively, there is an even chance that the real error shall lie. Thus, if 3[sec] is the probable error in a given case, the chances that the real error is greater than 3[sec] are equal to the chances that it is less. The probable error is computed from the observations made, and is used to express their degree of accuracy.
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Error \Er"ror\, n. [OF. error, errur, F. erreur, L. error, fr. errare to err. See {Err}.] 1. A wandering; a roving or irregular course. [Obs.] The rest of his journey, his error by sea. --B. Jonson. 2. A wandering or deviation from the right course or standard; irregularity; mistake; inaccuracy; something made wrong or left wrong; as, an error in writing or in printing; a clerical error. 3. A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension. H[?] judgment was often in error, though his candor remained unimpaired. --Bancroft. 4. A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault. --Ps. xix. 12. 5. (Math.) The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position. 6. (Mensuration) (a) The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity. (b) The difference between the observed value of a quantity and that which is taken or computed to be the true value; -- sometimes called {residual error}. 7. (Law.) A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact. 8. (Baseball) A fault of a player of the side in the field which results in failure to put out a player on the other side, or gives him an unearned base. {Law of error}, [or] {Law of frequency of error} (Mensuration), the law which expresses the relation between the magnitude of an error and the frequency with which that error will be committed in making a large number of careful measurements of a quantity. {Probable error}. (Mensuration) See under {Probable}. {Writ of error} (Law), an original writ, which lies after judgment in an action at law, in a court of record, to correct some alleged error in the proceedings, or in the judgment of the court. --Bouvier. Burrill. Syn: Mistake; fault; blunder; failure; fallacy; delusion; hallucination; sin. See {Blunder}.
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Probably \Prob"a*bly\, adv. In a probable manner; in likelihood. Distinguish between what may possibly and what will probably be done. --L'Estrange.
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Probe \Probe\, n. (Surg.) An instrument for examining the depth or other circumstances of a wound, ulcer, or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, of for exploring for bullets, for stones in the bladder, etc. --Parr. {Probe}, [or] {Probe-pointed}, {scissors} (Surg.), scissors used to open wounds, the blade of which, to be thrust into the orifice, has a button at the end. --Wiseman.
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Probe-pointed \Probe"-point`ed\, a. (Surg.) Having a blunt or button-shaped extremity; -- said of cutting instruments.
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Pepsinogen \Pepsin"ogen\, n. [Pepsin + -gen.] (Physiol. Chem.) The antecedent of the ferment pepsin. A substance contained in the form of granules in the peptic cells of the gastric glands. It is readily convertible into pepsin. Also called {propepsin}.
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Propepsin \Pro*pep"sin\, n. [Pref. pro- + pepsin.] (Physiol. Chem.) See {Persinogen}.
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Pepsinogen \Pepsin"ogen\, n. [Pepsin + -gen.] (Physiol. Chem.) The antecedent of the ferment pepsin. A substance contained in the form of granules in the peptic cells of the gastric glands. It is readily convertible into pepsin. Also called {propepsin}.
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Propepsin \Pro*pep"sin\, n. [Pref. pro- + pepsin.] (Physiol. Chem.) See {Persinogen}.
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Propeptone \Pro*pep"tone\, n. [Pref. pro- + peptone.] (Physiol. Chem.) A product of gastric digestion intermediate between albumin and peptone, identical with hemialbumose.
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Provable \Prov"able\, a. [See {Prove}, and cf. {Probable}.] Capable of being proved; demonstrable. -- {Prov"ableness}, n. -- {Prov"ably}, adv.
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Provable \Prov"able\, a. [See {Prove}, and cf. {Probable}.] Capable of being proved; demonstrable. -- {Prov"ableness}, n. -- {Prov"ably}, adv.
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Provable \Prov"able\, a. [See {Prove}, and cf. {Probable}.] Capable of being proved; demonstrable. -- {Prov"ableness}, n. -- {Prov"ably}, adv.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
probabilistic Relating to, or governed by, probability. The behaviour of a probabilistic system cannot be predicted exactly but the probability of certain behaviours is known. Such systems may be simulated using {pseudo-random} numbers. {Evolutionary computation} uses probabilistic processes to generate new (potential) solutions to a problem. See also {deterministic}, {non-probabilistic}. (1995-09-22)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
probabilistic automaton {nondeterministic automaton}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
provably difficult The set or property of problems for which it can be proven that no {polynomial-time} {algorithm} exists, only {exponential-time} {algorithm}s.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
provably unsolvable The set or property of problems for which no {algorithm} at all exists. E.g. the {Halting Problem}. See also {provably difficult}.