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P & O

British  

abbreviation

  1. the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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S P O R T In Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, California and elsewhere, sportsmen who hunt with bow & arrow have long had their own game preserves, where no guns are allowed.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is clear that if the earth is rotating about P O P' in the direction shown by the arrow, the rod a b is being shifted round, precisely as in the case first considered.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 by Various

P: O thou enveloped in thy cloak, S: O you who are clothed!

From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Abdullah Yusuf Ali

P: O mankind! if ye are in doubt concerning the Resurrection, then lo!

From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Now, let P O P' represent the polar axis of the earth; a b a horizontal rod at the pole bearing a pendulum, as in Fig.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 by Various

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