pi

Meanings

Plural: pis

Noun

• the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle; approximately equal to 3.14159265358979323846...
• someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information
• the scientist in charge of an experiment or research project
• the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet
• an antiviral drug used against HIV; interrupts HIV replication by binding and blocking HIV protease; often used in combination with other drugs
• The 16th letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek.
• An irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its diameter; approximately 3.14159265358979323846264338327950; usually written π.
• Metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered.
• pica (conventionally, 12 points = 1 pica, 6 picas = 1 inch).
• Piaster.

Verb

• To spill or mix printing type.

Adj

• Not part of the usual font character set; especially, non-Roman type or symbols as opposed to standard alphanumeric Roman type.
• Pious.

Synonyms

Archimedes' constant, Ludolph's constant, Ludolph's number, Ludolphian number, operative, principal investigator, private detective, private eye, private investigator, protease inhibitor, shamus, sherlock

Related Words

alpha, beta, chi, cicero, delta, epsilon, eta, gamma, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, omega, omicron, phi, pi sai, pica stick, psi, rho, sigma, tau, theta, upsilon, xi, zeta

Anagrams of pi