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Papion
- - A West African baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx), allied to the chacma. Its color is generally chestnut, varying in tint.
Papism
- noun - offensive terms for the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church
- the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church based in Rome
Papist
- adjective - an offensive term for Roman Catholics; originally, a Roman Catholic who was a strong advocate of the papacy
- of or relating to or supporting Romanism; "the Roman Catholic Church"
Pariah
- noun - a person who is rejected (from society or home)
Parial
- - See Pair royal, under Pair, n.
Parian
- - Of or pertaining to Paros, an island in the Aegean Sea noted for its excellent statuary marble; as, Parian marble.
Paries
- noun - (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure; "stomach walls"
Paring
- verb - (usually plural) a part of a fruit or vegetable that is pared or cut off; especially the skin or peel; "she could peel an apple with a single long paring"
- a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
- cut small bits or pare shavings from; "whittle a piece of wood"
- decrease gradually or bit by bit
- remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size; "pare one's fingernails"; "trim the photograph"; "trim lumber"
- strip the skin off; "pare apples"
- Trim, clip
Parish
- noun - a local church community
- the local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor
Parity
- noun - (computer science) a bit that is used in an error detection procedure in which a 0 or 1 is added to each group of bits so that it will have either an odd number of 1's or an even number of 1's; e.g., if the parity is odd then any group of bits that arrives with an even number of 1's must contain an error
- (mathematics) a relation between a pair of integers: if both integers are odd or both are even they have the same parity; if one is odd and the other is even they have different parity; "parity is often used to check the integrity of transmitted data"
- (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered; "the parity of the mother must be considered"; "a bipara is a woman who has given birth to two children"
- (physics) parity is conserved in a universe in which the laws of physics are the same in a right-handed system of coordinates as in a left-handed system
- functional equality