PID
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Modern automatic machines incorporate many convenience features depending on price point, including integrated manometers, wake-up, standby modes and PID controllers with shot pre-infusion and shot timing.
From Seattle Times
If an article does not cite a data set PID that Crossref can recognize, the link between the data generator, the publication and the data set will break down.
From Nature
PID, which represents about 10 percent of group sales, saw its revenue fall 1 percent last year, while orders grew by only 2 percent.
From Reuters
A person — PID chip 02D1AF0E, a permanent resident — picked a McIntosh apple from a tree in an indoor park.
From Nature
Under the rules, Marines were required to have “PID” — positive identification — of a combatant before firing.
From New York Times
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