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pink noise

In acoustics, noise in which there is equal power per octave.

PiP

Picture in picture

piston

In a hollow metallic waveguide, a longitudinally movable metallic plane surface that reflects essentially all the incident energy.
Note: A piston is used for tuning, e.g., fine-tuning a resonant cavity. Synonym plunger.

pitch

Synonym lay length.

pivot node

The network element that routes a call to the release node, and informs the release node that it is capable of performing pivot functionality on that specific call. The pivot node performs the pivoting based on the new destination node information received from the release node. The pivot node must be a Signaling System No.7 (SS7) signaling point. [T1.661-1997]

pixel

In a raster-scanned imaging system, the smallest discrete scanning line sample that can contain gray scale information.

PKCS

Public Key Cryptography Standards

PKE

Public Key Encryption

PL/I

A programming language that is designed for use in a wide range of commercial and scientific computer applications.

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