| PENTACHORD | • pentachord n. (Music) Five notes (pitch classes) in a scale. • pentachord n. A musical instrument with five strings. • PENTACHORD n. an ancient musical instrument with five strings. |
| PENTAGONAL | • pentagonal adj. Of, relating to, or shaped like a pentagon. • PENTAGONAL adj. having five corners or angles. • PENTAGONAL n. a pentagonal shape. |
| PENTAGRAMS | • pentagrams n. Plural of pentagram. • PENTAGRAM n. a five-pointed star, formerly used as a mystic or magical symbol. |
| PENTAGRAPH | • pentagraph n. A device used in surveying composed of four flat, straight brass rules, two of which are long and are… • pentagraph n. (Linguistics) A specific sequence of five letters, especially one used collectively to represent a single phoneme. • pentagraph n. (Computing) A five-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character. |
| PENTAHEDRA | • pentahedra n. Plural of pentahedron. • PENTAHEDRON n. a five-sided solid figure. |
| PENTALPHAS | • pentalphas n. Plural of pentalpha. • PENTALPHA n. a five-pointed star, resembling five alphas joined at their bases. |
| PENTAMETER | • pentameter n. (Poetry) A line in a poem having five metrical feet. • pentameter n. (Poetry) Poetic metre in which each line has five feet. • PENTAMETER n. a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet. |
| PENTANGLES | • pentangles n. Plural of pentangle. • PENTANGLE n. a five-pointed star, formerly used as a mystic or magical symbol. |
| PENTAPLOID | • pentaploid adj. (Genetics) That has five haploid sets of chromosomes. • pentaploid n. A cell or organism with five haploid sets of chromosomes. • PENTAPLOID n. a cell, organism, or form with five sets of chromosomes. |
| PENTAPODIC | • PENTAPODIC adj. relating to pentapody, a measure of five feet. |
| PENTAPOLIS | • pentapolis n. A geographic and/or institutional grouping of five cities. • PENTAPOLIS n. an alliance of five cities. |
| PENTAPRISM | • pentaprism n. (Photography) A five-sided prism used in the viewfinder of most single-lens reflex cameras. • PENTAPRISM n. a five-sided prism used in photography. |
| PENTAQUARK | • pentaquark n. (Physics) Any of a class of subatomic particles (previously hypothetical, since detected, subject to… • PENTAQUARK n. a hypothetical subatomic particle consisting of a group of five quarks (as compared to the usual three quarks). |
| PENTASTICH | • pentastich n. (Poetry) A composition consisting of five verses. • PENTASTICH n. a composition consisting of five verses. |
| PENTASTYLE | • pentastyle n. (Architecture) A portico with five columns. • PENTASTYLE n. a building or portico with five columns. |
| PENTATHLON | • pentathlon n. An ancient athletics discipline, featuring five events: stadion, wrestling, long jump, javelin and discus. • pentathlon n. (Athletics) Ellipsis of women’s pentathlon.; A 20th-century athletics discipline for women, the women’s… • pentathlon n. (Athletics) Ellipsis of modern pentathlon.; a discipline with five events based on late-19th century… |
| PENTATHLUM | • pentathlum n. Pentathlon. • PENTATHLUM n. a pentathlon. |
| PENTATOMIC | • pentatomic adj. (Chemistry) Having five atoms in each molecule. • pentatomic adj. (Chemistry) Having five hydrogen atoms capable of substitution. • PENTATOMIC adj. having five atoms in the molecule. |
| PENTATONIC | • pentatonic adj. (Music) Based on five tones. • pentatonic n. (Music) The pentatonic scale. • PENTATONIC adj. consisting of five tones or notes. |