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Pair - two insulated wires of single circuit associated together.

Pairing - the union of two insulated single conductors through twisting.

Parallel Cable - two insulated conductor's side-by-side in a cable.

PASP - Polyethylene Aluminum Steel Polyethylene.  provides additional lightning and gopher protection.

PE - Polyethylene.

Peak Voltage - the maximum instantaneous voltage.

Percent Conductivity - conductivity of a material expressed as a percentage of that of copper.

Periodicity - The uniformly spaced cable impedance variations that result in addition of the reflections of a signal. The distance between them is the half wavelength most affected. Multiples of that frequency is also affected. Even very slight variations, which appear over and over in a construction or installation, can have major effects on signal integrity because of periodicity.

Permittivity - see dielectric constant

PIC - Plastic Insulated Conductor.  Provides strong insulation.

Pick - distance between two adjacent crossover points of braid filaments. The measurement in picks per inch indicates the degree of coverage.

Pitch - Nominal distance from center-to-center of adjacent conductors within a cable. When conductors are flat, pitch is usually measured from the reference edge of a conductor to the reference edge of the adjacent conductor. Spacing.

Pitch Diameter - diameter of a circle passing through the center of the conductors in any layer of multiconductor cable.