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Pasir Gudang SIPP power station
The Pasir Gudang SIPP power station, formally the Sultan Ibrahim Power Plant, is a 1,440 MW gas-fired combined-cycle power station in Pasir Gudang, Johor, Malaysia, opened in 2021.
Pasir Mas
Pasir Mas is a district (jajahan) of Kelantan, Malaysia, bordering Thailand; population 230,424 (2020), area 614.15 km², named from 'mas' (gold) and 'pasir' (sand).
Pasireotide
Pasireotide (SOM230, Signifor) is a cyclic hexapeptide somatostatin analogue approved in 2012 for Cushing's disease, binding SSTR5 strongly; its main drawback is hyperglycemia from suppressed insulin and incretin secretion.
Pasit
Pasit (Chuay Pyit-thee, Ansah Pyit-thee) is a traditional Burmese cross-shaped race board game for four pieces per player, played with six cowrie shells as dice; documented by Shway Yoe in 1882 and related to Pachisi.
Pasithea Dorsum
Pasithea Dorsum is a 282 km sinuous ridge in southern Argyre Planitia, Mars, IAU-approved in 1991 and named for one of the Greek Graces; it is interpreted as a likely esker from subice meltwater.
Pasko Rakic
Pasko Rakic, also known as Pasko Rakić, is an American developmental neuroscientist at Yale who discovered how cortical neurons are generated and migrate, winning the 2008 Kavli Prize.
Paşmakçizâde Abdullah Efendi
Paşmakçizâde Abdullah Efendi (1680–1732) was an Ottoman scholar who served as şeyhülislam, the empire's chief mufti, for about nine months under Mahmud I before being dismissed for arrogance toward the sultan.
Paşmakçizâde Ali Efendi
Paşmakçizâde Ali Efendi, also known as Seyyid Ali Efendi, was an Ottoman scholar who served twice as şeyhülislâm, the head of the religious-legal hierarchy, under Sultan Ahmed III.
Paso Diablo Coal Mine
Paso Diablo Coal Mine (Mina Paso Diablo) is an open-pit mine in the Guasare Basin of Zulia State, Venezuela, the country's largest coal mine since 1987.
Paso Robles, California
Paso Robles, officially El Paso de Robles, is a city of about 31,000 in northern San Luis Obispo County, California, known for hot mineral springs and its surrounding wine country.
Pasom-mana Tesserae
Pasom-mana Tesserae, a 1,200-km tessera feature on Venus at 33S 49E named for a Hopi goddess, is a ring of deformed crust interpreted as the first identified collapsed crustal plateau.
Paspalum dilatatum
Paspalum dilatatum, dallisgrass or common paspalum, is a South American warm-season perennial pasture grass introduced worldwide, valued as forage from Texas to North Carolina but toxic via Claviceps paspali ergot and a major invasive weed in Australia and turf.
Paspalum notatum
Paspalum notatum, bahiagrass (grama forquilha), a mat-forming perennial South American pasture grass of Poaceae with sexual diploids and apomictic tetraploids, grown in the US Southeast; cultivars Pensacola, Tifton 9, Argentine; low seed yield.
Pasqal
Pasqal is a French quantum computing company, founded in 2019 as a spin-out from the Institut d'Optique, that builds quantum processors from neutral atoms held by laser light.
Pasquale "Pat" Giammarco
Pasquale "Pat" Giammarco is an Italian-born American restaurateur who founded Marco's Pizza in Oregon, Ohio, near Toledo, in 1978 and sold most of it in 2004.
Pasquale Buonocore
Pasquale Buonocore (1916–2003), Italian water polo goalkeeper from Napoli; Rari Nantes Napoli player and member of 'The Settebello', gold medalist at the 1947 European Championships and London 1948 Olympics.
Pasquale Fiore
Pasquale Fiore (1837–1914) was an Italian jurist and leading international lawyer who taught at four Italian universities, served as a senator from 1910, and was nominated for the 1913 Nobel Peace Prize.
Pasquale Passarelli
Pasquale Passarelli (Pasquale Giuseppe Passarelli), German Greco-Roman wrestler born 1957 in Gambatesa, Italy; 1984 Los Angeles Olympic bantamweight (57 kg) gold medalist for West Germany, 1981 world and European champion, brother of Olympian Claudio Passarelli.
Pasquale Tridico
Pasquale Tridico is an Italian politician of the Five Star Movement and a Member of the European Parliament since 2024, chairing the Subcommittee on Tax Matters.
Pasqualino Seven Beasts
Pasqualino Settebellezze (Seven Beauties), 1975 Italian film by Lina Wertmüller starring Giancarlo Giannini; four 1977 Oscar nominations and the first Best Director nomination for a woman.
Pasquier Quesnel
Pasquier Quesnel (1634–1719) was a French Oratorian priest and Jansenist theologian whose annotated New Testament supplied the 101 propositions condemned by the papal bull Unigenitus in 1713.
Pass by catastrophe
Pass by catastrophe is an academic urban legend holding that when a disaster strikes, affected students automatically receive passing marks, though no institution is known to have such a rule.
Pass laws (Cape and Transvaal)
Pass laws (paswette) were ordinances of the Cape Colony and the Transvaal requiring written permits from particular groups, beginning with Governor Caledon's 1809 proclamation at the Cape.
PASS syndrome
PASS syndrome: pyoderma gangrenosum, acne, suppurative hidradenitis, and ankylosing spondylitis; rare autoinflammatory disease first described 2012, no known gene mutation, IL-1 driven.
Pass the Dutchie
Pass the Dutchie: 1982 Musical Youth single, a bowdlerized cover of the Mighty Diamonds' cannabis song Pass the Kouchie; UK No. 1, US No. 10, first Black-artist MTV heavy-rotation video.
Pass the Monster Meat, Milady!
Pass the Monster Meat, Milady! (Akujiki Reijō to Kyōketsu Kōshaku) is a Japanese fantasy romance light novel by Kanata Hoshi and Peperon, serialized from 2019, published by Kodansha from 2021, with a Palcy manga and a 2025 TBS anime.
Pass transistor logic
Pass transistor logic (PTL) is a digital circuit design style in which MOSFETs act as switches that route logic signals, often needing fewer transistors than static CMOS.
Pass@k
Pass@k is a metric for evaluating code-generating language models: the probability that at least one of k sampled solutions passes a problem's unit tests, introduced by OpenAI in 2021.
Passacaglia
Passacaglia: a Baroque variation form of serious character in triple meter, built on a repeating bass or ostinato theme; Spanish in origin (pasacalle), codified by Frescobaldi in 1627, closely related to and often interchangeable with the chaconne, revived by Brahms, Webern, and Britten.
Passage Bio
Passage Bio was a Philadelphia-based genetic medicines company, founded in 2017, that developed AAV gene therapies for rare CNS diseases and agreed in 2026 to merge into Remix Therapeutics.