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what is pie

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pie

 /pī/

   noun

     1. a baked dish of fruit, or meat and vegetables, typically with a top and base of pastry. synonyms: pastry, turnover

                                                                                                                                      

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 (pī)

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    1. (also pē) The 16th letter of the Greek alphabet. See Table at alphabet.

    2. Mathematics A transcendental number, approximately 3.14159, represented by the symbol π, that expresses the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle and appears as a constant in many mathematical expressions.

 Jan 10, 2017
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edited by Obscure  Jan 10, 2017
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pie1

pī/

noun

noun: pie; plural noun: pies

a baked dish of fruit, or meat and vegetables, typically with a top and base of pastry.

synonyms:pastry, t**t, turnover

"the enticing aroma of fresh-baked pies"

US

a pizza.

Origin

Middle English: probably the same word as pie2, the various combinations of ingredients being compared to objects randomly collected by a magpie.

pie2

pī/

noun

noun: pie; plural noun: pies

short for magpie.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pica ‘magpie’ (related to picus ‘green woodpecker’).

pie3

pī/

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noun: pie; plural noun: pies

a former monetary unit of India and Pakistan, equal to one twelfth of an anna.

Origin

from Hindi pā'ī, from Sanskrit pada, padī ‘quarter.’

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