"PHP" meaning in English

See PHP in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: Originally an initialism of personal home page, used to describe a set of tools written by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. With the advent of PHP 3 which was no longer a limited language it was renamed to a recursive backronym: PHP: hypertext preprocessor. Etymology templates: {{m|en|personal home page}} personal home page, {{m|en|PHP: hypertext preprocessor}} PHP: hypertext preprocessor Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} PHP
  1. (computer languages) A scripting language widely used to write Web applications. Categories (topical): Computer languages, Diseases Derived forms: PHP-FPM
    Sense id: en-PHP-en-name-2cwUK2Oe Disambiguation of Diseases: 68 32 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 85 15 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 92 8 Topics: computer-languages, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} PHP (uncountable)
  1. (pathology) Initialism of pseudohypoparathyroidism. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: pseudohypoparathyroidism Categories (topical): Pathology
    Sense id: en-PHP-en-noun-pqVGvTQQ Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Alternative forms

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