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| Pentagon
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A plane figure with five angles and five sides. |
| Pentahedron
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A five sided solid figure. |
| Penthouse
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A separately roofed structure on the top of a tall block of apartments/condominiums, or simply the top-floor unit in a residential high-rise. |
| Per autre vie
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Time period of an estate based on how long a third party lives. |
| Per se
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Latin for by itself. A per se matter is one that is alone and not connected to another matter. |
| Per stirpes
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A legal method of distributing an estate to include the descendants of a deceased legatee, whose share is apportioned among linear descendants. |
| Per-diem interest
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Amount of interest due each day. |
| Per-unit allocation
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Allocating common or central costs to each unit of property. |
| Percent elongation
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The maximum amount that a material can be lengthened or stretched before breaking; expressed as a percentage of the original length of material tested. |
| Percent grade
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To evaluate the proposed slope of a driveway, road, etc. a calculation is done by dividing the rise and fall of the grade by the distance over which the rise and fall is measured. This decimal figure is then multiplied by 100 to obtain the percent grade. |
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