pith
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (botany)Examples: "This ſvveete ſmelling Reede is of a darke dun colour, full of ioints and knees eaſie to be broken into ſmall ſplinters, hollovv and full of a certaine vvhite pith, cobvveb vviſe, ſomevvhat gummie in eating, and hanging in the teeth, and of a ſharpe bitter taſte."; "Some make inciſion into the very Vine braunch, as farre as to the pith and marrovv vvithin (to divert the moiſture that feedeth the grape:) others lay the cluſters a drying upon tile-houſes: and all this is done vvith the grapes of the Vine Helvenaca."; "Atop the [Palmito] tree is a pith, in taſte better then Cabbage; and eating it takes avvay the future benefit of grovvth or fructifying, theſe and the Date-tree thriue not, except the male and female be vnited, and haue copulation: the ſhe is only fruitfull."Synonyms: marrow, medullauncountableusually
2. (botany)uncountableusually
3. (by extension)Synonyms: medullabroadlyuncountableusually
4. (by extension)Examples: "Becauſe many do hold this opinion that this diſeaſe doth conſume the marrovv of the backe: […] [s]ome againe, do tvvine out the pith of the backe vvith a long vvire thruſt vp into the horſſes head, and ſo into his necke and backe, vvith vvhat reaſon I knovv not."Synonyms: medullabroadlyuncountableusually
5. (by extension)Synonyms: diploebroadlyobsoleteuncountableusually
6. (by extension)Examples: "Verily if vvee take a right vievv of this laxe pith or marrovv in Mans head, neither our ſenſe nor underſtanding can diſcover any thing more in this ſubſtance that can pretend to ſuch noble operations as free Imagination and ſagacious collections of Reaſon, then vve can diſcern in a Cake of Sevvet or a bovvle of Curds."broadlyobsoleterareuncountableusually
adj (English)
1. (mathematics) The ordinal form of the number pi (π; approximately 3.14159…).Examples: "The pith root of pi is approximately 1.439…"; "(e^pi*i*i/2), or e^(-pi/2), which is the reciprocal of the square root of e to the pith power."; "That's nothing. I have an IMEI changer that will do all of the above and beat you off at the same time, while whistling the adaggio from Spartacus in Armenian and calculating pi to the pith power in swahili."not-comparabletransitive
noun (English)
1. (mathematics) One divided by pi, that is, 1/π (approximately 0.31831…).Examples: "not only that, but your "radian" axis can be labelled as *being* in units of pis, as opposed to the redundancy of 0pi, pi/2, pi etc.; conversely, your circumferential measure can be rational (or units) and your radius can be transcendental (or piths .-)"; "thought it was the two-sixths power of pi, and teh^([sic]) secondpower of six piths"; "of course, although a pith is less than a third, hence pi is more than three, say, thirty-one tenths, but 22/7 is still less than pi, and that's a rather small gore"transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary