plimsoll

/P L IH1 M S OW0 L/

noun

1
A rubber-soled lace-up canvas shoe for sports or onboard ships; a precursor of trainers.
2
The plimsoll symbol ⦵ (or o) that is used as a superscript in the notation of thermodynamics to indicate an arbitrarily chosen non-zero reference point.

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