ph
ph is the abbreviation of phot.
ph is the initialism of physical health.
ph is the misspelling of pH.
ph is the initialism of phonetically.
Meaning of phot
Noun
phot (plural phots)
- A photometric unit of illuminance, or luminous flux through an area (symbol ph).
Meaning of phonetically
Adverb
phonetically (comparative more phonetically, superlative most phonetically)
- In the way it sounds, particularly: written to describe the sound rather than the dictionary spelling.
- The hard words in the passage have been spelled phonetically.
Noun (1) capitalized: PH
PH (countable and uncountable, plural PHs)
- Initialism of public house.
- Initialism of penthouse.
- Initialism of preliminary hearing.
- Initialism of public health.
- Initialism of physical health.
- Initialism of public holiday.
- Initialism of polynomial hierarchy.
- Initialism of professional hydrologist.
- Initialism of pommel horse.
- Initialism of Purple Heart.
- Initialism of porotic hyperostosis.
- In the bibliometric survey, the overwhelming majority of stress indicator studies focused on one or more of the following: porotic hyperostosis (PH, usually in the orbital roofs but sometimes also in the cranial vault), […] Because PNB and PH are surface alterations, macroscopy is well suited for...2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 29
Proper noun capitalized: PH
PH
- Initialism of Pakatan Harapan.
- Initialism of Pornhub.
Noun (2) capitalized: Ph
Ph (uncountable)
- Abbreviation of phenyl.
Noun (3) capitalized: pH
pH (plural pHs)
- Measure of the acidity (low pH) or basicity (high pH) of an aqueous solution, equal to the negative logarithm of the concentration of hydronium ions in molars.
- The water absorbency of the anionically starch-grafted AA/AM absorbent is markedly affected by the pH of the buffer solution at different ionic strengths. The charge of the ionic monomer affects the pH sensitivity of the superabsorbent polymers. An acidic superabsorbent normally ionizes at high pH...2000 October 1, Suda Kiatkamjornwong, Wararuk Chomsaksakul, Manit Sonsuk, “Radiation modification of water absorption of cassava starch by acrylic acid/acrylamide”, in Radiation Physics and...
Forms of ph
| alternative form | PH |
|---|---|
| plural | PHs |
| plural | pHs |
Origin of ph
Originally introduced in 1909 by S. P. L. Sørensen, using the notation p_(H⁺) for what he called the “hydrogen ion exponent” (Wasserstoffionenexponent) of a solution. He may have chosen the symbol p arbitrarily; another suggestion is that it either an abbreviation of French puissance, German Potenz, Danish potens (“power”) or English potential. The H is the international chemical symbol for the element hydrogen.
Words formed from ph
Phrases with ph
Questions about ph
- What does ph mean?
- Ph means measure of the acidity (low pH) or basicity (high pH) of an aqueous solution, equal to the negative logarithm of the concentration of hydronium ions in molars.
- What is ph the abbreviation of?
- Ph is the abbreviation of phot.
- What part of speech is ph?
- Ph can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of ph?
- The plural of ph is PHs.
Words near ph in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ph (page history and authors); PH (page history and authors); Ph (page history and authors); pH (page history and authors); phot (page history and authors); phonetically (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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