ExpertGlossary acronyms starting with P

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P/E Ratio — Price/Earnings Ratio (P/E Ratio) A company’s stock price divided by its annual earnings, a widely used equity valuation measure.
PA — Principal applicant (PA) The person with the primary relationship to the petitioner, who the petitioner files to bring to the U.S.
PA/SI — Preliminary Assessment / Site Inspection (PA/SI) The Preliminary Assessment (PA) and Site Inspection (SI) are used by EPA to evaluate the potential for a release of hazardous substances from a site.
PAC — Political Action Committee (PAC) PAC's are political groups that are not formally related to a particular political party, but are associated with other groups (like labor unions…
PAT — Point Attribute Table / Polygon Attribute Table (PAT) A coverage can have either a point attribute table or a polygon attribute table, but not both.
PAT — Point attribute table or polygon attribute table (PAT) A coverage can have either a point attribute table or a polygon attribute table, but not both.
PAT — Port address translation (PAT) Port address translation.
PCIP — Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) A program that will provide a health coverage option for you if you have been uninsured for at least six months, you have a pre-existing condition, and…
PCP — Primary Care Physician (PCP) Your Primary Care Physician ("PCP") is the doctor you choose to provide basic health care.
PCS — Power conditioning system (PCS) In solar energy facilities, the collection of electrical equipment that converts direct current (DC) from a photovoltaic array to alternating current (AC)…
PD — Property damage (PD) Physical damage to property.
PF — Power Factor (PF) The ratio of actual power being used in a circuit, expressed in watts or kilowatts, to the power that is apparently being drawn from a power source…
PFC — Perfluorocarbon (PFC) Compounds consisting of carbon and fluorine. They do not deplete the stratospheric ozone but are very strong greenhouse gases with long lifetimes in the…
PFT — Perfluorocarbon Tracer Gas Technique (PFT) An air infiltration measurement technique developed by the Brookhaven National Laboratory to measure changes over time (one week to five months) when…
PFYC — Potential Fossil Yield Classification (PFYC) Initially developed by the U.S. Forest Service and the Region 2 Paleo Initiative in May 1996, the PFYC system provides baseline guidance for assessing the…
PHS — Public Health Service (PHS) An administrative entity of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
PIF — Problem Identification Form (PIF) Used to identify and document problems with ARM systems, physical infrastructure, or instruments.
PIN — Personal Identification Number (PIN) Generally a four-character number or word, the PIN is the secret code given to credit or debit cardholders enabling them to access their accounts.
PIP — Personal Injury Protection (PIP) This is a mandatory no fault coverage for automobile insurance providing benefits including, but not limited to, medical expenses, loss of income…
PITI — Principal, Interest, Taxes, and Insurance (PITI) Common acronym for principal, interest, taxes, and insurance—used when describing the monthly charges on a mortgage.
PITIA — Pricipal, interest, taxes, insurance and homeowners association dues (PITIA) Shorthand for principal, interest, taxes and insurance, which are the components of the housing expense.
PLO — Public Land Order (PLO) An order affecting, modifying, or cancelling a withdrawal or reservation that has been issued by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to powers of the…
PLSS — Public Land Survey System (PLSS) The survey carried out by the BLM and its predecessors for establishing boundaries and subdivisions of public lands of the United States, using the rules…
PMA — Federal Power Marketing Administrations (PMA) These are separate and distinct organizational agencies within the U.S. DOE that market power at federal multipurpose water projects at lowest possible…
PMI — Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI) Insurance offered by a private insurance company that protects the bank against loss on a defaulted mortgage up to the limit of the policy (usually 20 to…
POS — Point of Sale (POS) 1) The location at which a transaction takes place. 2) Systems that allow bank customers to effect transfers of funds from their deposit accounts and…
POS — Point of Service (POS) Plans A type of plan in which you pay less if you use doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers that belong to the plan’s network.
POTW — Publicly Owned Treatment Works Permit (POTW) A permit that regulates discharges to publicly owned sewage treatment plants.
PPACA — Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) Legislation (Public Law 111-148) signed by President Obama on March 23, 2010. One of two laws collectively referred to as the Affordable Care Act or…
PPE — Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Clothing or devices worn to help isolate or shield a person from direct exposure to a hazardous material or situation.
PPI — Patient Package Insert (PPI) A patient package insert contains information for patients' understanding of how to safely use a drug product.
PPL — Permissible Exposure Limit (PPL) The maximum amount or concentration of a chemical that a worker may be exposed to under OSHA regulations.
PPO — Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) A preferred provider organization (PP0) is a network of doctors and other healthcare providers that offers discounted care to members of a sponsoring…
PQPF — Probabilistic Quantitative Precipitation Forecast (PQPF) A form of QPF (see below) that includes an assigned probability of occurrence for each numerical value in the forecast product.
PRP — Potentially Responsible Parties (PRP) The Superfund law (CERCLA) allows EPA to respond to releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances into the environment.
PRP — Preferred Risk Policy (PRP) A policy that offers fixed combinations of building/contents coverage or contents-only coverage at modest, fixed premiums.
PSD — Prevention of significant deterioration (PSD) Under the Clean Air Act, a planning and management process for air quality when a new source of air pollution is proposed in an area where ambient air…
PSD — Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) Program A Federal air pollution permitting program intended to ensure that air quality does not diminish in attainment areas which meet national ambient air…
PSI — Pounds per square inch (PSI) a term generally used when describing water pressure when cleaning a building
PSPA — Senior Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement (PSPA) Entered into at the time the conservatorships were created, the PSPAs authorize the Enterprises to request and obtain funds from Treasury, which in turn…
PUD — Public utility district (PUD) A publicly owned energy producer or distributor. PUDs operate as special government districts under the authority of elected commissions.
PUM — Piling unmerchantable material (PUM) A logging contract requirement to remove and pile unmerchantable woody material of a specified size.
PURPA — Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) A federal law requiring a utility to buy the power produced by a qualifying facility at a price equal to that which the utility would otherwise pay if it…
PV — Photovoltaic (PV) Literally, "light" (photo) and "electricity" (voltaic). The class of equipment used to generate electricity directly from sunlight.
PV — Photovoltaic (PV) array An interconnected system of PV modules that function as a single electricity-producing unit.
PV — Photovoltaic (PV) cell The smallest semiconductor element within a PV module that converts incident sunlight into electrical energy (direct current voltage and current).
PV — Photovoltaic (PV) facility A solar energy facility that uses photovoltaic cells to produce electricity and that includes all components, such as the PV system, power conditioning…
PV — Photovoltaic (PV) module An assembly of solar cells (flat-plate type) or receiver(s) and optics (concentrator type) and ancillary parts, such as interconnects and terminals…
PV — Photovoltaic (PV) panel A collection of modules, either flat-plate or concentrator type, mechanically fastened, electrically interconnected, and designed to provide a…
PV — Photovoltaic (PV) power plant See Photovoltaic (PV) facility
PV — Photovoltaic (PV) receiver An assembly of one or more PV cells that accepts concentrated sunlight and incorporates means for thermal and electric energy removal.
PV — Photovoltaic (PV) system See Photovoltaic (PV) facility
PV — Photovoltaics (PV) Technologies that utilize semiconducting materials that convert sunlight directly into electricity.
PV — Present value (PV) The current value of a future cash flow or series of cash flows discounted at an appropriate interest rate or rates.