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What does P stand for?

Compressional (wave)


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Onkologisches Zentrum Westpfalz (German: Oncological Center West Palatinate)
Ostre Zapalenie Wsierdzia (Polish: Acute Endocarditis)
Optimal Zonal Wavelet Compression
Officier-Zeewaarnemer (Dutch)
Ozone and Water Vapor Group (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Obveznega Zdravstvenega Zavarovanja (Slovenian: Compulsory Health Insurance)
Ouarzazate, Morocco - Ouarzazate (Airport Code)
Ogolnopolski Zwiazek Zawodowy Lekarzy (Polish: Doctors’ Trade Union of Poland)
Obcianske Zdruzenie Za Zdravu Patronku (Slovak: Civil Association for Health Patrons)
(before officer title acronym) Past Officer
First Heartbeat Wave
Newspaper Stamp (Scott Catalogue prefix; philately)
Northern Ontario (postal code designation, Canada)
Onde Prime (Italian: second wave; seismography)
P Sub-Shell (second subshell of an electron shell)
Packed
Page
Para (benzene)
Paragraph (HTML)
Parent Corporation (IRB)



Samples in periodicals archive:
During the absorbing phase of the embossing process, a compressional model of the cells can be used.
It is elongated to the northwest, shortened to the southeast, with corresponding types of faulting (extensional and compressional, respectively) prevalent in each sector.
The proceedings include regional overview papers considering the fundamental driving mechanisms proposed to account for the generation, location, and orientation of post-breakup compressional structures; examining the post-breakup compression and uplift along the NE Atlantic margin and the Irish Sea; and exploring various pure and applied aspects of post-breakup tectonism in the West Iberia and Australia regions.
Mud volcanism is triggered mainly by the compressional stress along this boundary.
It is the collagen fibers that give bone its great tensile strength, while the calcium salts give bone its compressional strength.
3 g/cc and its compressional wave velocity is 8, not 7 km/s.
Comparisons were made for compressional and shear wave velocities as well as velocities ratios using core samples of different lithology.
An autopsy concluded that she died of compressional asphyxiation, Kraemer said.

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