ppt
See also: PPT
Translingual
Symbol
ppt
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Pa terms
English
Noun
ppt (plural ppt)
- Initialism of parts per trillion.
- (sometimes proscribed) Initialism of parts per thousand.
Usage notes
Some writers prescribe that ppt should be reserved consistently to its "parts per trillion" sense (sense 1) and that when "parts per thousand" is meant (sense 2) it should instead be expressed as ‰ (permille); the idea is to prevent any reader from ever possibly making a 10⁹ missense error when reading. Many writers either overrule this advice or are unaware of it.
Related terms
See also
- Parts-per notation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia