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Burns Stanza Or Meter: Six-line stanza with the rhyme scheme aaabab (where a is a tetrameter line, and b is a dimeter line).

Panic Buying Or Selling: Rapid trading of stocks or bonds in high volume in anticipation of sharply rising or falling prices, usually after unexpected news is released.

Palynomorph: Generic term for any object a palynologist studies.

Panorama: Picture presenting a continuous view of the landscape, produced either by using a panoramic camera or from a composite of several images.

Panoramic Camera: Camera with a special type of scanning lens which rotates on its rear nodal point and produces an image of the scanned area on a curved plate or film.

Paper Profit (Or Loss): If you own an asset that increases in value, any increase in value is a paper profit, or unrealized gain. If you sell the asset for more than you paid to buy it, your paper profit becomes an . . . View Full Definition

Panorex: An extraoral full-mouth X-ray that records the teeth and the upper and lower jaws on one film.

Panorama Shooting: Photographing several overlapping images in succession that can be joined in the computer using software.

Palpal Organs: The more or less complex structures fs)und in the terminal part of the adult male palp. They comprise groups of sclerites separated from each other and the cymbium by up to three haematodoch . . . View Full Definition

Oxymoron: An expression impossible in fact but not necessarily self-contradictory, such as john milton's description of hell as 'darkness visible' in book i of paradise lost.