ideal vs pip

ideal

noun
  • A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at. 

  • A subsemigroup with the property that if any semigroup element outside of it is added to any one of its members, the result must lie outside of it. 

  • A subring closed under multiplication by its containing ring. 

  • A non-empty lower set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary suprema (a.k.a. joins). 

  • A collection of sets, considered small or negligible, such that every subset of each member and the union of any two members are also members of the collection. 

  • A Lie subalgebra (subspace that is closed under the Lie bracket) 𝖍 of a given Lie algebra 𝖌 such that the Lie bracket [𝖌,𝖍] is a subset of 𝖍. 

adj
  • Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included. 

  • Optimal; being the best possibility. 

  • Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary. 

  • Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea. 

  • Perfect, flawless, having no defects. 

  • Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism. 

pip

noun
  • Something or someone excellent, of high quality. 

  • A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation 

  • A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip. 

  • The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading. 

  • One of the stylised version of the Bath star worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman. 

  • One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc. 

  • A spot; a speck. 

  • One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment to continue the call. 

  • Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza. 

verb
  • To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin 

  • To hit with a gunshot 

  • To peep, to chirp 

  • To remove the pips from. 

  • To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg 

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