pp

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pp"

Translingual

Adverb

pp

  1. pianissimo
  2. per procurationem - Latin for by agency or by proxy - used on a letter to indicate that has been signed on somebody else's behalf.

English

Etymology

Abbreviations.

Noun

pp pl (plural only)

  1. plural of p; abbreviation of pages
    Alternative form: pp.

Translations

Noun

pp (countable and uncountable, plural pps)

  1. (countable) Initialism of percentage point.
    Alternative forms: p.p., %p
  2. (uncountable, physics) proton and proton (used attributively to describe a collision or other interaction of these two particles)
    • 2015, Christine O. Rasmussen, Torbjörn Sjöstrand, “Hard Diffraction with Dynamic Gap Survival”, in arXiv:
      Comparisons with ppbar and pp data reveal improvement in the description of single diffractive events..
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