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Parsecs
- noun - a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years
Parsers
- noun - a computer program that divides code up into functional components; "compilers must parse source code in order to translate it into object code"
Parvenu
- adjective - a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class
- characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position
- of or characteristic of a parvenu
Percent
- noun - a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)
Percept
- noun - the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept
Perfect
- adjective - a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
- being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish;
- Exemplary
- make perfect or complete;
- precisely accurate or exact;
- without fault
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;
Perpend
- - To weight carefully in the mind.
Perseid
- - One of a group of shooting stars which appear yearly about the 10th of August, and cross the heavens in paths apparently radiating from the constellation Perseus. They are probably fragments of Swift's comet of 1862 (III).