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pi

(Encyclopedia)pi, in mathematics, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. The symbol for pi is π. The ratio is the same for all circles and is approximately 3.1416. It is of great importance in...

Pi-hahiroth

(Encyclopedia)Pi-hahiroth pīˈ-həhīˈrəth [key], in the Bible, place in Egypt, between Migdol and Baal-zephron, where the Israelites encamped. ...

Pi-beseth

(Encyclopedia)Pi-beseth pī-bēˈsĕth [key], biblical name of Bubastis. ...

Pi y Margall, Francisco

(Encyclopedia)Pi y Margall, Francisco fränthēsˈkō pē ē märgälˈ [key], 1824–1901, Spanish statesman and writer. A liberal journalist, he fled to France after the unsuccessful uprising of 1866 against Gen....

quoits

(Encyclopedia)quoits: see horseshoe pitching. ...

Rogers, Bruce

(Encyclopedia)Rogers, Bruce, 1870–1957, American typographer and book designer, b. Lafayette, Ind. As printing adviser to Cambridge Univ. Press, Harvard Univ. Press, and to commercial houses specializing in limit...

Powell, Cecil Frank

(Encyclopedia)Powell, Cecil Frank, 1903–69, British nuclear physicist, Ph.D. Cambridge, 1927. Powell joined the faculty at the Univ. of Bristol in 1927, was named Melville Wills Professor of Physics in 1948, and ...

P

(Encyclopedia)P, 16th letter of the alphabet, representing the voiceless bilabial stop. It corresponds to Greek pi, but in form it looks like Greek rho (see R). For the technical use of P in higher criticism, see O...

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