"ppb" meaning in English

See ppb in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: ppb [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|ppb}} ppb (plural ppb)
  1. Initialism of parts per billion. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: parts per billion Synonyms (parts per billion): nU, nanouno Related terms: ppbv, ppm, ppt, ppq, percent, permille, permyriad
    Sense id: en-ppb-en-noun-au9moaE9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for ppb meaning in English (0.9kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ppb",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ppb"
      },
      "expansion": "ppb (plural ppb)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "parts per billion"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of parts per billion."
      ],
      "id": "en-ppb-en-noun-au9moaE9",
      "links": [
        [
          "parts",
          "parts#English"
        ],
        [
          "per",
          "per#English"
        ],
        [
          "billion",
          "billion#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "ppbv"
        },
        {
          "word": "ppm"
        },
        {
          "word": "ppt"
        },
        {
          "word": "ppq"
        },
        {
          "word": "percent"
        },
        {
          "word": "permille"
        },
        {
          "word": "permyriad"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "parts per billion",
          "word": "nU"
        },
        {
          "sense": "parts per billion",
          "word": "nanouno"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ppb"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ppb",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ppb"
      },
      "expansion": "ppb (plural ppb)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "ppbv"
    },
    {
      "word": "ppm"
    },
    {
      "word": "ppt"
    },
    {
      "word": "ppq"
    },
    {
      "word": "percent"
    },
    {
      "word": "permille"
    },
    {
      "word": "permyriad"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "parts per billion"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English indeclinable nouns",
        "English initialisms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English words without vowels"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of parts per billion."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "parts",
          "parts#English"
        ],
        [
          "per",
          "per#English"
        ],
        [
          "billion",
          "billion#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "parts per billion",
      "word": "nU"
    },
    {
      "sense": "parts per billion",
      "word": "nanouno"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ppb"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.