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Pers

pərs
Cartoon about the latest tax reforms that abolish the tax on fuels. De Pers asks the Minister of Finance Betz when the stamp tax will be abolished. Plate published by the weekly De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 10, March 5, 1864.
Cartoon about the latest tax reforms that abolish the tax on fuels. De Pers asks the Minister of Finance Betz when the stamp tax will be abolished. Plate published by the weekly De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 10, March 5, 1864.
Illustrations
Scale 1: 500,000. Below the map a legend of sugar factories per regency.
Scale 1: 500,000. Below the map a legend of sugar factories per regency.
XXXIV Rectum per dura carpit iter. First shock. Part of 'Sinnepoppen', R. Visscher, 1614.
XXXIV Rectum per dura carpit iter. First shock. Part of 'Sinnepoppen', R. Visscher, 1614.
Table of contents with a list of all plates per volume in the entire printwork in which the eight volumes of Les forces de l'Europe are bundled, published between 1693-1697. The print consists of 175 plates with plans (from Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur de Vauban) of renowned strong cities and fortresses in the Nine Years' War. Title in French.
Table of contents with a list of all plates per volume in the entire printwork in which the eight volumes of Les forces de l'Europe are bundled, published between 1693-1697. The print consists of 175 plates with plans (from Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur de Vauban) of renowned strong cities and fortresses in the Nine Years' War. Title in French.
Scale 1: 500,000. Below the map a legend of sugar factories per regency. Top left an extensive rectification including accompanying text.
Scale 1: 500,000. Below the map a legend of sugar factories per regency. Top left an extensive rectification including accompanying text.
Coat of arms with motto Per apera ad astra, held by two lions
Coat of arms with motto Per apera ad astra, held by two lions
Portrait of Per Johan Wimermark, the draftsman's brother-in-law and the vice-pastor of Linkoping. Bust in a minister's dress. With inscription.
Portrait of Per Johan Wimermark, the draftsman's brother-in-law and the vice-pastor of Linkoping. Bust in a minister's dress. With inscription.
Inscription PER CASVS.AD.PASSVS 'and' CONSTANS.IN.LEVITATE '. Depictions of a falling skater and a satyr with an ear of wheat in his hand.
Inscription PER CASVS.AD.PASSVS 'and' CONSTANS.IN.LEVITATE '. Depictions of a falling skater and a satyr with an ear of wheat in his hand.
Image of flowers. Below the text 'Floruit per vices XLIII an norum'.
Image of flowers. Below the text 'Floruit per vices XLIII an norum'.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
  1. Pers
    Light blue; grayish blue; -- a term applied to different shades at different periods.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.
  1. (n) pers
    See perse.
  2. pers
    An abbreviation of Persia or Persian;
  3. pers
    [lowercase or cap.] of person;
  4. pers
    of personal;
  5. pers
    [lowercase] of personally.
Quotations
June Jordan
The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment: these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.
June Jordan
Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.
Tommy Steele
John Mortimer
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
John Mortimer
Robert Benchley
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Robert Benchley
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F. pers,

Usage in the news

From $200 per person per night, all-inclusive. travelandleisure.com

The separator processed 76 tons of soil per hour to keep up with the tunneling that averaged nine feet per hour. eponline.com

According to the CROP poll done for La Presse, the Liberals would bag 36 per cent of the vote, ahead of the NDP at 30 per cent. vancouversun.com

Venezuela- $0.18 per gallon ($0.05 per liter ). csmonitor.com

At about 2 am on Friday, an East Hampton Town police officer pulled over a blue Subaru that was reportedly doing 44 miles per hour in a 30-mile-per-hour zone on Main Street in Amagansett. easthamptonstar.com

The legislation appropriates the annual budget for the legislature and, within that, includes the 22 percent increase in per diem for lawmakers who live outside the metro area, hiking the rate from $150 per day to $183 a day. denverpost.com

However, there is a limit of 50 picture postmarks (hand cancellations) per person per day. courierpress.com

For children overall, 15.1 per cent of boys were obese compared with eight per cent of girls. vancouversun.com

The province has set a goal of increasing recycling rates to 75 per cent, from 57 per cent, under the new program. vancouversun.com

20 per personSpectators $10 per person. kbw.com

In both the 2003 and 2004 ICAT surveys, the median output per consulting firm per year was around $7 million in integrated systems. svconline.com

Gas will be sold for $3 per gallon (maximum of 5 gallons per household) at the municipal building today only, Mayor David Stahl said in a statement. nj.com

The Finance Department said the total tax bill will be $23.78 per thousand of assessed valuation - 88 cents per thousand less than last year. hbl.com

To earn the rating, rivers and streams must meet the official criteria for gold medal water: 12 trout per acre over 14 or 60-pounds of trout per surface acre. summitdaily.com

125 per person/per night through September at The Broadmoor. cobizmag.com

Usage in scientific papers

So he can e.g. determine that ”Scenario X” should be executed 100 times with a call rate of 10 calls per second and then 20 times with a call rate of 2 calls per second.
SPAM over Internet Telephony and how to deal with it

For constant stars, the distribution of the squared RV amplitudes S 2 then follows a χ2 distribution with df degrees of freedom, where df is the number of RV measurements per star (in our case, df = 33, because we have 33 data points per star on average).
A Spectroscopic Survey of WNL Stars in the LMC: General Properties and Binary Status

Our observations are fragmented into 13 runs of different duration and slightly different typical sampling frequencies between 0.5 and 2 data points per day and per star.
A Spectroscopic Survey of WNL Stars in the LMC: General Properties and Binary Status

The most widely used is the so-called k-ǫ model, where the properties of the turbulence are described by two variables, the turbulent energy per unit mass, k, and the turbulent dissipation rate per unit mass, ǫ.
The turbulent destruction of clouds - I. A k-epsilon treatment of turbulence in 2D models of adiabatic shock-cloud interactions

The formal resolution is 64 cells per rc , but due to the shallow profile the effective resolution is roughly 128 cells per cloud radius.
The turbulent destruction of clouds - I. A k-epsilon treatment of turbulence in 2D models of adiabatic shock-cloud interactions

Usage in literature

This means that 35,000 / 5,000 = 7 pounds of water was evaporated per pound of coal burned. "Engineering Bulletin No 1: Boiler and Furnace Testing" by Rufus T. Strohm

He tells us that when our first census was taken only four per cent. "Checking the Waste" by Mary Huston Gregory

The public debt on January 1, 1783, was $42,000,375, of which $7,885,088 was foreign, bearing four and five per cent. "Albert Gallatin" by John Austin Stevens

The yield of quarters was 20.46 per cent, that of small kernel parts O.66 per cent, and the total 21.12 per cent. "Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting" by Northern Nut Growers Association

I should be inclined to place it as low as five per cent. "Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900" by George Henry Makins

Then the profits of the trust from the increased prices alone will amount to four and one half million dollars per annum. "Monopolies and the People" by Charles Whiting Baker

The sale aggregated $10,425, or $386 per head. "Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884." by Various

The population of the State of Louisiana, according to the last census, is 61 per cent white and 38.9 per cent Negro. "The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921" by Various

Price: cloth, per set, $3.60; per volume, 30 cents. "Breaking Away" by Oliver Optic

The variation in per cent kernel first crack and total per cent kernel probably represents fairly the difference in the samples. "Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943" by Various

Usage in poetry
Non son chi fui; perí di noi gran parte:
Questo che avanza è sol languore e pianto.
E secco è il mirto, e son le foglie sparte
Del lauro, speme al giovenil mio canto.
Oh!... Il bel tempo dell'assiduo
Alternar di paci e guerre,
Quando i vescovi aggiravansi
Cavalcando per le terre,
Mentre ai pie` delle Eminenze
Chiedean tutti le indulgenze!
E` vero!.... E` vero!.... Ei calpesto` un affetto,
Che men compianta potea far sua vita!....
E` vero!.... E` vero!.... Al domestico tetto
Per lui la mensa fu di duol condita!....
And two of these cakes each man got per day,
Which the poor creatures devoured in a ravenous way;
Along with a little fresh water to wash it down,
Which they most thankfully praised God for and didn't frown.
Alvar Fanez and Per Vermudoz, for them the King let send.
He took them to a hall apart: "Now harken to me both
Minaya and Per Vermudoz. The Cid my service doth;
The Campeador, his pardon well hath he earned of me.
It starts this mornin'. I wake with a tooth
That's squirmin' like a basketful uv snakes.
Per'aps I groan a bit, to tell the truth;
An' then she wakes,
An' arsts me wot I'm makin' faces for.
I glare at 'er, an' nurse me achin' jor.