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p.p.

p.p. is the initialism of past participle.

p.p. is the initialism of percentage point.

p.p. is the abbreviation of per procurationem.

p.p. is the abbreviation of postpartum.

Meaning of past participle

Noun

past participle (plural past participles)

  1. A participle indicating a completed action or state.

Meaning of percentage point

Noun

percentage point (plural percentage points)

  1. One hundredth of a given value, used to measure the difference between two percentages.
    • The difference between 20 percent and 30 percent is 10 percentage points, not 10 percent. In fact, an increase from 20 to 30 percent is an increase of 50 percent. Only if, for example, 20 percent of buyers choose a certain company's products in one year and 22 percent do so the next year, can one...
    Synonyms:
    ppt, pp, %p

Questions about p.p.

What is p.p. the initialism of?
P.p. is the initialism of past participle.

Words near p.p. in the dictionary

  1. P.O.U.M.
  2. p.o.v.
  3. P.O.W.
  4. P.O.W. camp
  5. P.O.W. camps
  6. p.p.
  7. P.P.C.
  8. p.p.s.
  9. p.pr.
  10. P.Q.
  11. P.R.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: p.p. (page history and authors); past participle (page history and authors); percentage point (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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