PH

PH

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ph"

Translingual

Etymology 1

Symbol

PH

  1. (metrology) Symbol for petahenry, an SI unit of electrical inductance equal to 1015 henrys.

Etymology 2

Symbol

PH

  1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the Philippines since 1974.
    Synonyms: PHL (alpha-3 1976–present), PHI (alpha-3 1974–1976)

English

Noun

PH (countable and uncountable, plural PHs)

  1. Initialism of public house.
  2. Initialism of penthouse.
  3. (law) Initialism of preliminary hearing.
  4. (health, policy) Initialism of public health.
  5. Initialism of physical health.
    Coordinate term: MH
  6. Initialism of public holiday.
  7. (computer science) Initialism of polynomial hierarchy.
  8. (business, hydrology) Initialism of professional hydrologist.
  9. Initialism of pommel horse.
  10. Initialism of Purple Heart.
  11. Initialism of porotic hyperostosis.
    • 2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 29:
      In the bibliometric survey, the overwhelming majority of stress indicator studies focused on one or more of the following: porotic hyperostosis (PH, usually in the orbital roofs but sometimes also in the cranial vault), [] Because PNB and PH are surface alterations, macroscopy is well suited for their recognition in skeletal remains. For PH (and for porotic bony alterations in general), care needs to be taken in distinguishing normal from abnormal porosity.

Proper noun

PH

  1. (Malaysian politics) Initialism of Pakatan Harapan.
  2. Initialism of Pornhub.

Anagrams

French

Noun

PH m (plural PHs)

  1. (military, nautical, aviation) CVH: initialism of porte-hélicoptère: helicopter carrier
    Coordinate terms: PA, BPC, PHA, PHI

Malay

Proper noun

PH

  1. (Malaysian politics) initialism of Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope)

Romanian

Proper noun

PH

  1. abbreviation of Prahova: a county of Romania

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • (standard) IPA(key): /fiː/
    • (informal) IPA(key): /f/

Letter

PH (all caps, upper case Ph, lower case ph)

  1. The twenty-first letter of the Welsh alphabet, called ffi and written in the Latin script; preceded by P and followed by R.

See also

Mutation

  • PH is the aspirate mutation of P and cannot be mutated itself.