The parsec ( symbol: pc ) is a unit of length used in astronomy.

* pc, symbol for the parsec, an astronomical measure of distance

* Copper-p ( penny ), d ( denarius ), cu ( chemical symbol ), pc ( police constable )

Recently, Francis and Anderson proposed that a systematic effect on Hipparcos parallax errors for stars in clusters biases calculation using the weighted mean, and gave a Hipparcos parallax distance of 126 pc, and photometric distance 132 pc based on stars in the AB Doradus, Tucana-Horologium and Beta Pictoris moving groups, which are similar in age and composition to the Pleiades.

Recent advances in 12v DC pump technologies ( for the first time specifically geared-for pc development ) allow for new pumps to be both extremely powerful and extremely quiet.

Sega's Consumer Business segment is producing and distributing games for consoles and pc.

The 2009 catalog of revised Hipparcos parallaxes for Praesepe members and the latest iteration of color-magnitude diagram fitting in the infrared favor an analogous distance near 182 pc.

If, for example, the network name of the user's computer is pc. department. branch. example. com, the browser will try the following URLs in turn until it finds a proxy configuration file within the domain of the client:

Cascading Style Sheets defined by the World Wide Web Consortium use " pc " as the abbreviation for pica ( 1 / 6 of an inch ), and " pt " for point ( 1 / 72 of an inch ).

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In order for the effects of general relativity to be measurable with current instruments, pulsars with orbital periods less than about 10 years would need to be discovered ; such pulsars would orbit at distances inside 0. 01 pc from Sgr A *.

we have n = 3, and E = pc which gives the above results for massless particles.

for each pc in partialCounts:

At some point a scribe of some sort used the abbreviation " pc " with a tiny loop ( small circle used in Italian numeration for primo, secondo, etc.

The " pc " with a loop eventually evolved a horizontal fraction sign by 1650 ( see below for an example in a 1684 text ) and thereafter lost the " per ".

Here is an example < tt >. pc </ tt > file for libpng:

( 1 astronomical unit | AU and 1 Parsec | pc are not to scale, 1 pc = ~ 206265 AU )

The magic circle is, in fact, a symbol of and preparation for the metaphysical orgasm ''.

Accordingly, it is the aim of this essay to advance a new theory of imitation ( which I shall call mimesis in order to distinguish it from earlier theories of imitation ) and a new theory of invention ( which I shall call symbol for reasons to be stated hereafter ).

How did it happen, for example, that the state university, that great symbol of American democracy, failed to flourish in New England as it did in other parts of the country??

They could not guess that from their concepts of liberty and freedom would some day be born a new nation that for years would be the symbol of hope to the oppressed countries of the world.

The symbol for division is a straight line that separates two numbers placed one above the other.

The symbol for multiplication is `` **b ''.

The symbol for subtraction is the standard minus sign.

To simplify the formulas a representative symbol is substituted for each of the factors.

The pain became thus the symbol for food and elicited salivary secretion ( conditioned reflex ).

Yet, in summarizing a series of careful essays on the Yalta Conference, Forrest Pogue could find no basis for Yalta becoming `` a symbol for betrayal and a shibboleth for the opponents of Roosevelt and international cooperation ''.

Such mannerisms would be less worthy of remark, were it not that in Great Expectations, as in no other of Dickens' novels, hands serve as a leitmotif of plot and theme -- a kind of unifying symbol or natural metaphor for the book's complex of human interrelationships and the values and attitudes that motivate them.

The biblical symbol for this affirmation is expressed in the words: `` So God created man in his own image ; ;

An alkyl group, generally abbreviated with the symbol R, is a functional group or side-chain that, like an alkane, consists solely of single-bonded carbon and hydrogen atoms, for example a methyl or ethyl group.

Its name is Latin for " water-carrier " or " cup-carrier ", and its symbol is 20px (), a representation of water.

An abjad is a type of writing system where each symbol always or usually stands for a consonant, leaving the reader to supply the appropriate vowel.

The symbol for argon is now Ar, but up until 1957 it was A.

This led to americium being located right below its twin lanthanide element europium ; it was thus by analogy named after another continent, America: " The name americium ( after the Americas ) and the symbol Am are suggested for the element on the basis of its position as the sixth member of the actinide rare-earth series, analogous to europium, Eu, of the lanthanide series.

In Art and Artist ( 1932 ), the psychologist Otto Rank wrote that the psychological trauma of birth was the pre-eminent human symbol of existential anxiety and encompasses the creative person's simultaneous fear of – and desire for – separation, individuation and differentiation.

* APL, United States Navy hull classification symbol for barracks craft

These states are labeled by a set of quantum numbers summarized in the term symbol and usually associated with particular electron configurations, i. e., by occupation schemes of atomic orbitals ( e. g., 1s < sup > 2 </ sup > 2s < sup > 2 </ sup > 2p < sup > 6 </ sup > for the ground state of neon -- term symbol: < sup > 1 </ sup > S < sub > 0 </ sub >).

The circle symbol for aromaticity was introduced by Sir Robert Robinson and his student James Armit in 1925 and popularized starting in 1959 by the Morrison & Boyd textbook on organic chemistry.

In this way the circle symbol for a 6c – 6e bond can be compared to the Y symbol for a 3c – 2e bond.

* A typographic symbol to mark chapters or paragraphs, now evolved into the pilcrow

* The geta symbol 〓, named for its resemblance to the geta shoe ; see Japanese typographic symbols

The numero sign or numero symbol, № ( also represented as Nº, N < u > o </ u >, or No. ) is a typographic abbreviation of the word number indicating ordinal numeration, especially in names and titles.

The numero sign is not a typographic symbol character, but the word número ( number ) abbreviated per the Spanish typographic convention of superior letters — letras voladas ( flying letters ) and voladitas ( little flying letters ) — wherein the final letter ( s ) of the abbreviated word are written as underlined lower-case superscripts: n < sup >< u > o </ u ></ sup > and N < sup >< u > o </ u ></ sup > ( singular ), n < sup >< u > os </ u ></ sup > and N < sup >< u > os </ u ></ sup > ( plural ), which is in the same fashion as other flying letters like F < sup >< u > co </ u ></ sup > for Francisco ; M < sup >< u > a </ u ></ sup > for María ; f < sup >< u > do </ u ></ sup > for firmado ( signed ).

The ejective affricate in the name Gwich ’ in is usually written with symbol U + 2019, though the correct character for this use ( with expected glyph and typographic properties ) is U + 02BC.

* Bullet ( typography ) (•), a solid typographic symbol ; called a bullet point in the United Kingdom

An asterisk is a typographic symbol that has "*" as a typical rendering.