per — English Dictionary

Preposition

1. For each.

   Examples

   Admission is £10 per person.

   miles per gallon

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   beats per minute

   $2.50 per dozen

   The Nuggets star is averaging 24.9 PPG, 11.9 RPG (rebounds per game) and an agonizing 9.9 APG (assists per game) – demonstrating Jokić’s incredible all-around ability.

2. To each, in each (used in expressing ratios of units).

   Examples

   12 inches per foot

   100 centimeters per meter

3. By the, through the (with name of body part in Latin).

   Examples

   Introduce the endoscope per nasum.

   The medication is to be administered per os.

4. In accordance with, as per.

   Examples

   I parked my car at the curb per your request.

   Implement a program that computes the approximate grade level needed to comprehend some text, per the below.

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   Note that while the walkthrough illustrates that words may be separated by more than one space, you may assume, per the specifications above, that no sentences will contain more than one space in a row.

5. According to.

   Examples

   Bucks trading for Patrick Beverley, per sources

   The Heat were too close to the luxury tax line -- $1.6 million over before this trade, per ESPN's Bobby Marks

Pronoun

1. They (singular). Gender-neutral neologistic third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.

   Usage

   • gender-neutral
   • nominative
   • nonstandard
   • Rare
   • singular
   • third-person

   Examples

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   This is the same place the Houghtons came from? The place where someone we interacted with thought of going into law as a profession, decided per couldn't because per was a bdsmer, and most of the USAmerican bdsmers per was discussing it with agreed with per?

2. Them (singular) Neologistic gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, suggested for use in place of him and her.

   Usage

   • gender-neutral
   • nominative
   • nonstandard
   • Rare
   • singular
   • third-person

   Examples

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   This is the same place the Houghtons came from? The place where someone we interacted with thought of going into law as a profession, decided per couldn't because per was a bdsmer, and most of the USAmerican bdsmers per was discussing it with agreed with per?

   "Kalypso!" I call out as phe disappears on the horizon. I did not know it, but I loved per.

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   Whereas Christie had flirted with a lesbian identity prior to surgery, following surgery Christie found perself able to pursue per attraction to men, provided they related to per as a non-gendered person.

Determiner

1. Belonging to per; their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with gendered his and her.

   Usage

   • nonstandard
   • Rare

   Synonyms

   eirhir

   Related words

   other attested

   Narrower terms

   hisher

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   Whereas Christie had flirted with a lesbian identity prior to surgery, following surgery Christie found perself able to pursue per attraction to men, provided they related to per as a non-gendered person.