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Perversity
- noun - deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
- deliberately deviating from what is good; "there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism"
Perversive
- adjective - tending to corrupt or pervert
Perverting
- verb - change the inherent purpose or function of something; "Don't abuse the system"; "The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers"
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive; "Don't twist my words"
Pesterment
- - The act of pestering, or the state of being pestered; vexation; worry.
Petrescent
- - Petrifying; converting into stone; as, petrescent water.
Peucedanin
- - A tasteless white crystalline substance, extracted from the roots of the sulphurwort (Peucedanum), masterwort (Imperatoria), and other related plants; -- called also imperatorin.
Phanerogam
- noun - plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores
Phase Rule
- - A generalization with regard to systems of chemical equilibrium, discovered by Prof. J. Willard Gibbs. It may be stated thus: The degree of variableness (number of degrees of freedom) of a system is equal to the number of components minus the number of phases, plus two. Thus, if the components be salt and water, and the phases salt, ice, saturated solution, and vapor, the system is invariant, that is, there is only one set of conditions under which these four phases can exist in equilibrium. If only three phases be considered, the system is univariant, that is, the fixing of one condition, as temperature, determines the others.
Phasemeter
- - A device for measuring the difference in phase of two alternating currents of electromotive forces.
Phenelzine
- noun - monoamine oxidase inhibitor (trade name Nardil) used to treat clinical depression