| personnel selection | The process of choosing employees for specific types of employment. The concept includes recruitment. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| personnel staffing and scheduling | The selection, appointing, and scheduling of personnel. (12 Dec 1998) |
| personnel staffing and scheduling information systems | Computer-based systems for use in personnel management in a facility, e.g., distribution of caregivers with relation to patient needs. (12 Dec 1998) |
| personnel turnover | A change or shift in personnel due to reorganization, resignation, or discharge. (12 Dec 1998) |
| personnel, hospital | The individuals employed by the hospital. (12 Dec 1998) |
| persons | Persons as individuals (e.g., abortion applicants) or as members of a group (e.g., hispanic americans). It is not used for members of the various professions (e.g., physicians) or occupations (e.g., librarians) for which occupational groups is available. (12 Dec 1998) |
| perspective | 1. A glass through which objects are viewed. "Not a perspective, but a mirror." 2. That which is seen through an opening; a view; a vista. "The perspective of life." 3. The effect of distance upon the appearance of objects, by means of which the eye recognised them as being at a more or less measurable distance. Hence, aerial perspective, the assumed greater vagueness or uncertainty of outline in distant objects. "Aerial perspective is the expression of space by any means whatsoever, sharpness of edge, vividness of colour, etc." (Ruskin) 4. The art and the science of so delineating objects that they shall seem to grow smaller as they recede from the eye. Synonym: linear perspective. 5. A drawing in linear perspective. Isometrical perspective, an inaccurate term for a mechanical way of representing objects in the direction of the diagonal of a cube. Perspective glass, a telescope which shows objects in the right position. Origin: F. Perspective, fr. Perspectif: cf. It. Perspettiva. See Perspective. 1. Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical. 2. Pertaining to the art, or in accordance with the laws, of perspective. Perspective plane, the plane or surface on which the objects are delineated, or the picture drawn; the plane of projection; distinguished from the ground plane, which is that on which the objects are represented as standing. When this plane is oblique to the principal face of the object, the perspective is called oblique perspective; when parallel to that face, parallel perspective. <zoology> Perspective shell, any shell of the genus Solarium and allied genera. See Solarium. Origin: L. Perspicere, perspectum, to look through; per + spicere, specere, to look: cf. F. Perspectif; or from E. Perspective, n. See Spy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| perspectograph | An instrument for obtaining, and transferring to a picture, the points and outlines of objects, so as to represent them in their proper geometrical relations as viewed from some one point. Origin: L. Perspectus (p.p. Of perspicere to look through) + -graph. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| perspectography | The science or art of delineating objects according to the laws of perspective; the theory of perspective. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| perspicil | An optical glass; a telescope. Origin: LL. Perspicilla, fr. L. Perspicere to look through. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| perspiration | Sweating, the functional secretion of sweat. Origin: L. Perspirare = to breathe through (18 Nov 1997) |
| perspiratory glands | The coil glands of the skin that secrete the sweat. Synonym: glandulae sudoriferae, Boerhaave's glands, perspiratory glands, sudoriferous glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| perspire | To emit or evacuate through the pores of the skin; to sweat; to excrete through pores. "Firs . . . Perspire a fine balsam of turpentine." (Smollett) 1. <physiology> To excrete matter through the skin; especially, to excrete fluids through the pores of the skin; to sweat. 2. To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin; as, a fluid perspires. Origin: L. Perspirare to breathe through; per + spirare. See Per-, and Spirit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| perstillation | See: pervaporation. Origin: L. Per, through, + stillo, to trickle, distil (05 Mar 2000) |
| persuade | 1. To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives. "Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian." (Acts xxvi. 28) "We will persuade him, be it possible." (Shak) 2. To try to influence. "Hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you." (2 Kings xviii. 32) 3. To convince by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe. "Beloved, we are persuaded better things of you." (Heb. Vi. 9) 4. To inculcate by argument or expostulation; to advise; to recommend. Synonym: To convince, induce, prevail on, win over, allure, entice. See Convince. Origin: L. Persuadere, persuasum; per + suadere to advise, persuade: cf. F. Persuader. See Per-, and Suasion. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |