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Piezometers
- noun - a measuring instrument for measuring high pressures
Planimeters
- noun - a measuring instrument for measuring the area of an irregular plane figure
Pleximeters
- noun - a small thin metal plate held against the body and struck with a plexor in percussive examinations
Pre-Emption
- noun - a prior appropriation of something; "the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests"
- the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject
- the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)
- the right to purchase something in advance of others
Pre-Emptive
- adjective - designed or having the power to deter or prevent an anticipated situation or occurrence; "a preemptive business offer"
Presumption
- noun - (law) an inference of the truth of a fact from other facts proved or admitted or judicially noticed
- a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming; "his presumption was intolerable"
- an assumption that is taken for granted
- audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness"
Presumptive
- adjective - affording reasonable grounds for belief or acceptance; "presumptive evidence"; "a strong presumptive case is made out"
- having a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance; "the presumptive heir (or heir apparent)"
Protometals
- - A finer form of metals, indicated by enhanced lines in their spark spectra (which are also observed in the spectra of some stars), obtained at the highest available laboratory temperatures (Lockyer); as protocalcium, protochromium, protocopper, protonickel, protosilicon, protostrontium, prototitanium, protovanadium.
Proximately
- - In a proximate manner, position, or degree; immediately.
Proximities
- noun - a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) objects or events that are near to one another (in space or time) are perceived as belonging together as a unit
- the property of being close together
- the region close around a person or thing