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per

94 1.0
By a method or channel like email
  • adposition
  • /pɜr/
translation icon : vía
  • What if it's time spent on the app per dollar spent?

Final step is to leave on skin as per self tanning product directions.

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Examples

  • The concert tickets cost $50 per person.

  • Currently, the PBGC charges a basic premium equal to $16 per year, per participant.

    Academic text (1990)
  • It's just simply you pay per closed lead already.

  • Ask her, ask her how much you cost per hour.

  • So we can measure that at like the parts per million level essentially.

  • No rate cuts per the base case of the committee.

  • Three million dollars in Swiss accounts per our agreement.

  • The charge is 22,000 per night.

  • A woman may have to work 70 or more hours per week, which may conflict with family responsibilities.

    Academic text (2008)
  • You may submit up to two entries per person by letter, fax, or email.

    Fiction book (2002)

Synonyms

via
vsper
648 1.0

By using a particular route, place, or method

includes use according to a rule channel or specific standard
by way of
vsper
72 2.9

To reach a place or result through something else

focuses more on method or rule than on reaching a result

Idioms

per se
  • Formal
78 7.5

By itself, without considering other things

per annum
  • Formal
7 4.2

Each year, often used when talking about money amounts

Compounds

169 1.0

How often something happens in one year, often for an amount of money

A measure of speed showing how many miles you travel in one hour

57 3.5

For each person in a group

How far a car can travel on one gallon of fuel

per capita income
  • Specialized
11 4.1

Average amount of money each person gets in a place during a year

per diem
  • Specialized
9 6.4

Money paid each day to cover travel expenses

The number of kilometers you travel in one hour

7 3.4

A unit that measures pressure equal to one pound of force on one square inch

earning per share
  • Specialized
5 5.5

The profit a company makes for each share of its stock

beats per minute
  • Specialized
5 2.7

Number of times the heart beats in one minute to measure pulse

A measure of speed that shows how many kilometers something moves in one second

For each home as an amount or rate

words per minute
  • Specialized
3 2.5

The number of words read, spoken, or typed in one minute

2 4.1

A unit for frequency equal to one complete cycle in one second

1 3.5

The number of turns something makes in one minute

bits per second
  • Specialized
1 2.8

A unit that shows how many small pieces of information called bits are sent every second

per curiam
  • Formal
1 9.9

A court decision made by all judges without saying who wrote it

1 6.9

For each day

beats per minute
  • Specialized
3.1

Number of beats in music in one minute that shows a song's speed

A measure of how many billion math calculations a computer does each second

bits per inch
  • Specialized
5.1

A measure of how many bits are stored in each inch of a tape or disk

The cost for each item or unit used

Number of events that happen in one minute

force per unit area
  • Specialized
4.9

How hard a force pushes on each small part of a surface

7.2

A unit equal to one thousand cycles per second, now called kilohertz

How many liters of fuel a car uses to drive 100 kilometers

6.2

A unit equal to one million cycles per second for measuring radio frequencies

A measure of how fast a computer does one million math calculations each second

A unit for measuring how fast a computer processor runs, equal to one million instructions per second

4.9

A measure of cycles per second equal to one billion

A number that shows how much out of every hundred

per curiam
  • Formal
9.9

Made by a court as a whole without naming any judge

A measure of computer speed equal to one trillion math calculations every second

Surface Forms

per main

Etymology

Per comes from the Latin word per meaning 'through' or 'by'. It keeps the idea of using a way or method, so per email means 'by' or 'through' email.