plim

plim

1. (mathematics) probability limit

   For a sequence {X_n} of random variables ${\displaystyle {\underset {n\to \infty }{\operatorname {plim} }}\,X_{n}=X}$ is the same as ${\displaystyle \lim _{n\to \infty }\operatorname {Pr} {\big (}|X_{n}-X|\geq \varepsilon {\big )}=0}$ ${\displaystyle (\forall \varepsilon >0)}$

• lim

• IPA^(key): /plɪm/, [pʰlɪm]
• Rhymes: -ɪm

plim (comparative more plim, superlative most plim)

1. (chiefly South Wales) plump; full

plim (third-person singular simple present plims, present participle plimming, simple past and past participle plimmed)

1. (chiefly South Wales) To swell or inflate; to fill up.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 32:

     "Don't that make your bosom plim?"

• IPML, impl, limp, pilm

• plym

A deverbative in -i(m), based on an unattested verb *plyej, from Proto-Albanian *plānja (“to fill”), from Proto-Indo-European *plē (“full”).^[1]

plim m (plural plimë, definite plimi, definite plural plimët)

1. mass crowd
2. row

plim (feminine plime)

1. in heaps, in piles

• plotë

From French plume (“feather”).

• IPA^(key): /plim/

plim

1. feather

Borrowed from French plume (“quill”).

plim

1. pen (writing tool)

• plin

plim

1. meh (expressing indifference)

• “plim”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024