Per Dictionary

According to dictionary entries, the words as per means “according to”, “for” or “by each”. The previous sentence can thus be rephrased as “as per dictionary entries, AS PER pertain to things “according to”, “for” or “by each”. Although that pertains to the English word, per.

Some interesting notes about the word PER:

The word “PER” takes a variety of meanings, as there are more than a few entries under the word Per or PER.
PER can stand for any of the following:
the International Olympic Committee code for Peru,
PE-ratio or price-to-earning ratio used in finance
Partial Equivalence Relation
Project on Ethnic Relations
Protein Efficiency Ratio
the standard astronomical abbreviation for the constellation Perseus,
a village in Hungary, among the many other definition or entries for the word per.
The word “per” is “par” in French, “pro” in German, “por” in Portuguese, also “por” in Spanish.

It is quite common to see the word per in dictionary entries, as it is a common prefix pertaining to a certain rate. Examples of these are “per annum”, “per diem” “per capita”, “per cent” “per contiguum” among many others. It is intersting perhaps to note that per as a prefix to such words pertainsto a certain rate.