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Parshva (Sarvastivada Buddhist monk)

Parshva (पर्ष्व) was an Indian Sarvastivada Buddhist monk of the second century AD under the Kushan Empire, remembered as the elder whose counsel led King Kanishka to convene the Fourth Buddhist Council.

Parshvanatha

Parshvanatha (पार्श्वनाथ), also called Parshva, is the twenty-third Tirthankara of Jainism, a prince of Varanasi remembered for a fourfold vow of restraint and for teaching about 250 years before Mahavira.

Parsi Gujarati literature

Parsi Gujarati literature (પાર્સી ગુજરાતી સાહિત્ય) is the Gujarati-language literature of the Parsis, a Zoroastrian community of western India, flourishing from the 15th to the mid-20th century.

Parsi theatre

Parsi theatre was the commercial proscenium-stage theater of colonial India, founded by Parsi entrepreneurs in Bombay in the 1850s and dominant from the 1860s to the 1930s.

Parsifal

Parsifal (WWV 111), Wagner's last opera, a three-act Bühnenweihfestspiel premiered at Bayreuth on 26 July 1882, based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, reserved for Bayreuth until the Met's 1903 production.

Parsing

Parsing: determining the structure a formal grammar assigns to a string, also called syntax analysis. Key facts: BNF notation (Backus 1959, Naur 1960), top-down LL versus bottom-up LR parsing, Earley and CYK O(n^3) algorithms, GLR parse forests, ANTLR 4 ALL() parsing, Universal Dependencies treebanks.

Parsing Bill

Parsing Bill is a 2012 oil painting by Australian-born artist Petrina Ryan-Kleid, an MFA thesis work at the New York Academy of Art depicting Bill Clinton in a blue dress; it became famous for hanging in Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan townhouse, with ownership provenance still disputed.

Parsing expression grammar

A parsing expression grammar (PEG) is a formalism for describing syntax in which rules are recognition procedures with ordered choice, formalized by Bryan Ford in 2004.

Parsis (પારસી)

Parsis (પારસી) are Indian Zoroastrians, descendants of Persian refugees who settled Gujarat after the Arab conquest of Iran, per the Qissa-i Sanjan; noted for the Iranshah fire at Udwada, colonial-era commercial leadership, and a declining population.

Parsley

Parsley (Petroselinum crispum, garden parsley) is a biennial Apiaceae herb native to the Mediterranean region, grown as curly-leaf, flat-leaf Italian, and Hamburg root types; rich in vitamin K, C, and A, with apiol and myristicin oils.

Parsley force field

Parsley is the codename for the Open Force Field Initiative's first generation of small molecule force fields, released as OpenFF 1.0.0 in October 2019 and succeeded by Sage.

Parsley massacre

The Parsley massacre (El Corte) was the October 1937 killing of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent on Trujillo's orders along the Dominican-Haitian border, with death toll estimates from under 1,000 to 30,000.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme is Simon & Garfunkel's third studio album, released October 10, 1966 on Columbia Records, known for Scarborough Fair/Canticle, Homeward Bound, and The 59th Street Bridge Song.

Parsnip

Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa), a biennial Apiaceae root vegetable native to Eurasia, grown for its sweet cream-yellow taproot harvested after frost; furanocoumarins in foliage cause photodermatitis; feral in North America.

Parson

A parson is the incumbent of a parish holding its benefice in full legal title, a corporation sole in English law and a near-synonym for parish clergyman.

Parson Russell Terrier

Parson Russell Terrier, formerly Parson Jack Russell Terrier: British long-legged working fox terrier named for Rev. John Russell (1795–1883); FCI Standard 339, 36 cm dogs, spannable chest, distinct from the shorter Jack Russell Terrier.

Parsons Corporation

Parsons Corporation is an American technology and engineering company founded in 1944 in Los Angeles, headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, serving the U.S. federal government and infrastructure customers worldwide.

Parsons Nutritionals

Parsons Nutritionals Private Limited is an Indian FMCG contract manufacturer in Sahibabad, Uttar Pradesh, founded in 2002, making foods, supplements, and personal care for Hindustan Unilever, Mondelez, and ITC.

Parsons School of Design

Parsons School of Design, known as Parsons, is a private art and design college in New York City, part of The New School. Founded in 1896 as the Chase School, renamed Parsons in 1941, it pioneered fashion, graphic, and interior design study and enrolls over 5,700 students.

Parsua

Parsua, also called Parsuash or Parsumash, was a land of the central Zagros mountains named in Neo-Assyrian records from the 9th century BC and later made an Assyrian province.

Parsuna

Parsuna (парсуна), from the Latin persona, is a genre of Russian portrait painting of the 17th and early 18th centuries, transitional between icon painting and the secular portrait.

Part 1 (True Detective)

"Part 1" is the January 14, 2024 premiere of True Detective: Night Country (season 4), Issa López's Alaska-set entry starring Jodie Foster as Danvers, distinguished from the 2014 Louisiana debut season.

Part 135 (FAA)

Part 135 of the Federal Aviation Regulations sets operating requirements for commuter, charter, air taxi, air ambulance, and air tour operators, adopted by the FAA in 1964.

Part 6 (True Detective)

Part 6 is the sixth and final episode of True Detective season 4, Night Country, written and directed by Issa López, starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis, set at Tsalal station in Ennis, Alaska; distinct from season 1's 'Haunted Houses'.

Part III of the Mathematical Tripos

Part III of the Mathematical Tripos, also called the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Mathematics, is a nine-month taught master's course in mathematics at the University of Cambridge.

Part IV Family Law Act 1996 orders

Part IV Family Law Act 1996 orders are civil protective orders in England and Wales, giving courts two remedies for associated persons: non-molestation orders and occupation orders.

Part of speech

Part of speech, also called word class or lexical category, is a class of words with similar grammatical properties, such as noun, verb, and adjective. The article covers its Greek origins, criteria, cross-linguistic variation, and tagging.

Part-issue publishing of Victorian novels

Part-issue publishing of Victorian novels: sale of fiction as independent paper-covered installments, monthly at a shilling or weekly at a penny, pioneered by Dickens's Pickwick Papers (1836-37) and distinct from magazine serialization.

Part-of-speech tagging

Part-of-speech tagging is the natural language processing task of assigning each word in a text a syntactic label such as noun or verb, with modern English taggers reaching about 97% accuracy.

Part-Time Wife

Part-Time Wife (Istri Paruh Waktu) is a 2026 Indonesian Netflix drama series, 60 episodes, created by Manoj Punjabi, starring Audi Marissa as CEO Riska and Arifin Putra as Adimas; distinct from the 1961 British comedy and 1925 silent film of the same title.