per-
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
per-/pəː/
▶prefix
- 1 through; all over: pervade.
■ completely; very: perfect.
■ to destruction; to ill effect: perdition.
- 2 Chemistry having the maximum proportion of some element in combination: peroxide.
'per-' also found in these Oxford entries:
a
- absolute alcohol
- ampere
- ampersand
- arkose
- atmosphere
- bar
- baud
- becquerel
- birth rate
- bit rate
- Boltzmann's constant
- bpi
- bpm
- bps
- Britannia metal
- Britannia silver
- calorific value
- centimorgan
- clock speed
- compeer
- cps
- c/s
- cumec
- curie
- cusec
- cycle
- death rate
- demi-pension
- dpi
- duty
- dyne
- electrum
- EPS
- exercise price
- expansivity
- -flop
- fps
- frequency
- full-motion video
- fully
- gal
- gigaflop
- gigahertz
- golden share
- gph
- gpm
- gray
- greywacke
- gsm
