ppp
pianississimo; double pianissimo.
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abbreviation
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purchasing power parity: a rate of exchange between two currencies that gives them equal purchasing powers in their own economies
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private-public partnership: an agreement in which a private company commits skills or capital to a public-sector project for a financial return
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However for these countries 50 per month is quite a sum for average person, although not even close to 1600 ppp!
From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2017
There is a long and stormy Coda—a second development in true Beethoven style—which finally ends ppp in the lowest depths of the orchestra, in the same mood as the opening measures.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
Be sure you have the following packages installed: * ppp * ppp-pam * wvdial When you install the wvdial package, you may be given the opportunity to configure it.
From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by Goerzen, John
This opens with the familiar flowing type of MacDowell melody, but with the succeeding section in D flat major, marked ppp, comes in a new and earnest expressiveness.
From Edward MacDowell by Porte, John F.
The story is absurd, for the simple reason that even in 1705, Sperling, in his “Principæ Musicæ,” describes crescendos from ppp to fff, and we read in Plutarch of the same thing.
From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James)
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