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

  • abbreviation characters per inch

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun acronym the consumer price index, an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer. The increase of this value each year is one measure of monetary inflation.

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  • initialism characters per inch

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a self-report personality inventory originally derived from the MMPI; consists of several hundred yes-no questions and yields scores on a number of scales including dominance and self acceptance and self control and socialization and achievement etc.
  • noun an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer

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