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Pi   /paɪ/   Listen
Pi

noun
1.
The ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle; approximately equal to 3.14159265358979323846....
2.
Someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information.  Synonyms: operative, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus, sherlock.
3.
The scientist in charge of an experiment or research project.  Synonym: principal investigator.
4.
The 16th letter of the Greek alphabet.
5.
An antiviral drug used against HIV; interrupts HIV replication by binding and blocking HIV protease; often used in combination with other drugs.  Synonym: protease inhibitor.



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"Pi" Quotes from Famous Books



... and report the contumacy of the Israelites to Pharaoh. Meantime Moses, who did not desire the departure of his people to have the appearance of flight before the Egyptians, gave the signal to turn back to Pi-hahiroth. Those of little faith among the Israelites tore their hair and their garments in desperation, though Moses assured them that by the word of God they were free men, and no longer slaves to Pharaoh. [12] Accordingly, they retraced their steps to Pi-hahiroth, where two rectangular ...
— THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS VOLUME III BIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS - FROM THE EXODUS TO THE DEATH OF MOSES • BY LOUIS GINZBERG
... when I first came aboard, the mess declared it was too long, so they cut off the 'h' and the 'as' and 'm' and called me Tom Pi; but even then they were not content, for they further docked it of its fair proportions, and decided that I was to be named Topi, though generally ...
— Paddy Finn • W. H. G. Kingston
... about whom the most that was known was that he was physically weak and timid, rarely taking part in any athletic exercises, having very few chums, interfering very little with anybody else, and reputed "pi."—as the more irreverent among the Willoughbites were wont to stigmatise any fellow who made a profession of goodness. Such was the boy on whom, according to strict rule, the captaincy of Willoughby would devolve, and it need hardly be said that the discovery ...
— The Willoughby Captains • Talbot Baines Reed
... Times and all Spaces are commensurable; although in certain relations of space (as [pi]) the unit of measurement must be infinitely small.—If Time really trotted with one man and galloped with another, as it seems to; if space really swelled in places, as De Quincey dreamed that it did; life could not be ...
— Logic - Deductive and Inductive • Carveth Read
... is panina anamayat. The initial and final letter of pani (pi) and the middle letter of anamayat (na), with the ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 - Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 • Unknown


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