Used in a Sentence

pekka

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for pekka.

Editorial note

I just see it as the new normal; a symptom of a network economy as Pekka Himanen describes in The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age.

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Quick take

a Finnish male given name.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of pekka gathered in one view.

N

a Finnish male given name.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for pekka.

N

a Finnish male given name.

Example sentences

1

I just see it as the new normal; a symptom of a network economy as Pekka Himanen describes in The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age.

2

I've been reading Indigenous Continent by Pekka Hämäläinen recently, I picked it up now that it is available as a paperback.

3

I know Pekka closely for 15 years, and he smiled 3 times.

4

Btw you look like Finnish actor Pekka Strang.

5

Plasma physicist Pekka Janhunen points out in the comments that the losses in a traditional magnetic trap are high, this is what the Tokamak was invented for in the first place.

6

Smith, Lauri Kahanpää, Pekka Kekäläinen and William Traves, An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry, Springer, Berlin, 2004.

7

Just to set some context, I remember talking to Glauber and Pekka last year, right around when the Turso folks started toying with the idea of reimplementing SQLite in Rust.

8

I found Pekka Hämäläinen's Indigenous Continent to be a worthwhile history of North America, although mostly it was focused on events during European exploration of North America with a relatively short initial section about the state of civilization prior to the Spanish arrival.

9

I used to work in a big multi national (Nokia) with a care taker CEO (Olli Pekka Kallasvuo) who took over from the man that grew Nokia from a large but insignificant Finnish company to the smart phone behemoth it was around 2005 (Jorma Ollila).

Quote examples

1

Pekka Toveri, former head of Finland's military intelligence agency, told the paper that the accidental-damage theory was "total B.

2

You might even want to pick up a copy of "The Hacker Ethic" by Pekka Himanen.

3

They have also threatened to withdraw the option program that Tesla has, where you get shares for a certain number of years," says IF Metall's contract secretary Veli-Pekka Säikkälä.

4

I just started reading "The hacker ethic" by Pekka Himmanen.

Proper noun examples

1

Pekka is a Finn, and there are other Finns as well, but not all of us are Finns.

2

Government's lack of competitive pressure can be somewhat overcome by social pressure from the government official being your neighbor Pekka.

3

He handed the keys to the company to a non technical CEO with a financial background (Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, aka, OPK internally).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use pekka in a sentence?

I just see it as the new normal; a symptom of a network economy as Pekka Himanen describes in The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age.

What does pekka mean?

a Finnish male given name.

What part of speech is pekka?

pekka is commonly used as N.