Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation Computers point of presence
  • abbreviation point of purchase
  • abbreviation proof of purchase

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  • initialism weather Acronym of probability of precipitation.
  • initialism telecommunications Acronym of point of presence.
  • initialism trade Acronym of Point of Purchase.
  • initialism Internet Acronym of Post Office Protocol.

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Examples

  • I don't care if she had 1000 babies, she's a pop star and POP STARS DO NOT HAVE SAG.

    unknown title 2009

  • But neither Francis Bacon nor Lucian Freud nor Damien Hirst has shaped modern art as Hamilton did when he put a lolly with the word POP on it in the hand of a muscleman in his 1956 collage, Just What is it that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?

    Richard Hamilton, the original pop artist, dies at 89 2011

  • POP is joining with these wonderful students to help them fight Eshoo and Kay Hagan, women who are willing to impose a huge financial burden on the health care system and cut off access to the newest drugs that could save the lives of breast cancer survivors.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • I write all this because APAture's LAP-POP is the second edition of a Locus event (started two years ago), and the perfect example of the official melding of Locus and KSW, which happened this summer and will be formalized at an event this fall.

    APAture Live 2008

  • After my attending the Brain POP seminar, I used it in my classroom while I was in at the conference for the second day.

    2008 November | BrainPOP Educators 2008

  • After my attending the Brain POP seminar, I used it in my classroom while I was in at the conference for the second day.

    BrainPOP and Substitute Teachersa | BrainPOP Educators 2008

  • Perhaps instead of calling them the Klan, we can lump all their disparate gripes and whines into the "POP" - Party Of Paranoia.

    Crooks and Liars 2008

  • Bauer recently revealed plans to relaunch the twice-a-year women's style title POP under new editor in chief Dasha Zhukova and editorial director Ashley Heath, who was instrumental in the launch of Arena and Arena Homme Plus. url = _media_news_fashion_memopad_bauer_suspends_publication_of_arena_2045298_justin_2045298;

    The latest WWD Headlines 2009

  • Bauer recently revealed plans to relaunch the twice-a-year women's style title POP under new editor in chief Dasha Zhukova and editorial director Ashley Heath, who was instrumental in the launch of Arena and Arena Homme Plus. url = _media_news_fashion_memopad_bauer_suspends_publication_of_arena_2045298_module_today;

    The latest WWD Headlines 2009

  • One fiber route in and out of Chicago to AT&T’s Canal POP is not how I define redundant.

    Reminder: You Can’t Stockpile Broadband 2009

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