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PHP

PHP is the initialism of pseudohypoparathyroidism.

PHP is the initialism of Primary Health Properties.

Meaning of pseudohypoparathyroidism

Noun

pseudohypoparathyroidism (plural pseudohypoparathyroidisms, abbreviation PHP)

  1. A rare inherited disorder where the body does not respond properly to parathyroid hormone, causing low calcium and high phosphate levels despite high PTH in the blood.

Proper noun

PHP

  1. A scripting language widely used to write Web applications.
    • Developers at an open source company in Spain are leading an effort to boost PHP application development for Android-based phones.2010 July 17, “PHP development comes to Google Android”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2026
    • The final thrust of Bob's argument is that if you strip away all disk I/O (and he cites the move to SSD persistent storage), we'll shift away from interpreted languages such as Ruby and PHP and back to Java.2011 October 17, Matthew Baxter-Reynolds, “Java's second coming? Over my cold, dead RAM-cached database”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2022

Noun

PHP (plural PHPs)

  1. (informal) A PHP script.
    • At first, I had the PHPs on the university host requesting the data from MySQL on my ISP's host.2002 December 11, Amittai Aviram, “Moving files between hosts”, in comp.lang.php (Usenet), archived from the original on 04 Jul 2026
    • Once I get this, I am not able to run a PHP that uses those include files again.2006 March 26, Jim Michaels, “mysql_connect() losing connections from cmd line”, in comp.lang.php (Usenet), archived from the original on 04 Jul 2026

Forms of PHP

pluralPHPs

Origin of PHP

Originally an initialism of personal home page, used to describe a set of tools written by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. With the advent of PHP 3 which was no longer a limited language it was renamed to a recursive backronym: PHP: hypertext preprocessor.

Words formed from PHP

Questions about PHP

What does PHP mean?
PHP means a scripting language widely used to write Web applications.
What is PHP the initialism of?
PHP is the initialism of pseudohypoparathyroidism.
What part of speech is PHP?
PHP can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near PHP in the dictionary

  1. phoxacephalids
  2. phoxichilidiid
  3. phoxichilidiids
  4. phoxim
  5. phoxite
  6. PHP
  7. PHPer
  8. PHPers
  9. phpht
  10. PHPs
  11. phr

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: PHP (page history and authors); pseudohypoparathyroidism (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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