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Peel testing
Peel testing is a mechanical test that separates one bonded layer from another at a controlled angle and rate, measuring the force required to quantify adhesion.
Peel-Yalgorup system
Peel-Yalgorup System, Ramsar Site 482, wetland of international importance near Mandurah, Western Australia; 26,530 ha, listed 1990, over 20,000 waterbirds, Lake Clifton thrombolites, Bindjareb Noongar country.
Peela Srinivasa Rao
Peela Srinivasa Rao is an Indian Telugu Desam Party politician who served as Mayor of Visakhapatnam from 2025 to 2026, after previously leading the party's council floor and district unit.
Peeli Chhatri Wali Ladki
Peeli Chhatri Wali Ladki (पीली छतरी वाली लड़की; "The Girl with the Yellow Umbrella") is a long story by Hindi writer Uday Prakash, serialized in 2001.
Peeling skin-leukonychia-acral punctate keratoses-cheilitis-knuckle pads syndrome
PLACK syndrome (peeling skin-leukonychia-acral punctate keratoses-cheilitis-knuckle pads syndrome) is an ultra-rare autosomal recessive genodermatosis caused by CAST loss-of-function variants, first described in 2015, with roughly 19-21 reported cases and a reported dilated cardiomyopathy association.
PeelingFlesh
PeelingFlesh is an American slam death metal band formed in 2021 in Oklahoma City, known for mixing brutal death metal with hip-hop samples and mixtape-style releases.
Peelite
Peelites: British political faction (1846–late 1850s) of Sir Robert Peel's free-trade followers after the Corn Laws repeal split the Conservatives; figures included Aberdeen, Gladstone, Graham, and Herbert; absorbed into the Liberals.
Peelu
Peelu (پیلو) was a seventeenth-century Punjabi poet, remembered as the first to tell a Punjabi folktale in verse through his qissa Mirza Sahiban, the tragic love story of Mirza and Sahiban.
Peely
Peely is Fortnite's anthropomorphic banana character, an Epic-rarity Battle Pass outfit released February 28, 2019 (Season 8, Tier 47), with reactive ripening, over a dozen variants (P-1000, Agent Peely, Peely Bone), deep lore roles, LEGO and KAWS crossovers, and 27.3% locker ownership.
Peenemünde
Peenemünde, a village on northern Usedom island in the Baltic, hosted the German Army rocket research center where the V-2 was developed and first flown in 1942, using forced labor, and is now a museum site.
Peenemünde Army Research Center
The Peenemünde Army Research Center (German: Heeresversuchsanstalt Peenemünde) was a secret German Army rocket facility on Usedom island, active from 1937 to 1945, birthplace of the V-2.
Peening
Peening is a surface treatment that plastically deforms metal by repeated impact from shot, laser shock, or ultrasound, leaving compressive stress that raises fatigue strength and crack resistance.
Peep show
Peep show: a picture sequence or erotic show viewed through an eyehole or coin-operated booth. Also called raree show. Traces 16th-century street boxes, penny arcades, Kinetoscope parlors, 1960s Hodas and Sturman porn arcades, regulation, and webcam successors.
Peep Show (British TV series)
Peep Show is a British Channel 4 sitcom (2003-2015, nine series, 54 episodes) created by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb as Croydon flatmates Mark Corrigan and Jeremy Usbourne, filmed in first-person POV with inner monologues; it won a BAFTA and Rose d'Or.
PEEP titration
PEEP titration is the bedside adjustment of positive end-expiratory pressure to keep alveoli open in ARDS, using methods like PEEP/FiO2 tables, best-compliance trials, and EIT.
PEEP trial (NCT05386901)
PEEP trial, NCT05386901, a registered randomized controlled trial testing lung dynamic compliance-guided PEEP titration versus conventional PEEP to reduce postoperative pulmonary complications in children undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery with one-lung ventilation.
Peepal Tree Press
Peepal Tree Press is an independent publisher based in Leeds, England, founded by Jeremy Poynting in 1985, specializing in Caribbean and Black British writing with over 450 titles published.
Peeping Tom (1960 film)
Peeping Tom (1960) is Michael Powell's British psychological thriller, scripted by Leo Marks, about killer cameraman Mark Lewis (Karlheinz Böhm); reviled and censored on release, it ended Powell's career before Scorsese's 1970s revival made it a slasher-progenitor classic.
Peepli Live
Peepli Live (Peepli [Live]) is a 2010 Hindi satirical comedy-drama directed by Anusha Rizvi, produced by Aamir Khan, about a farmer whose planned suicide for government compensation becomes a media circus; India's 83rd Oscars foreign-film entry.
PeePooDo & The Super Fuck Friends
Peepoodo & The Super Fuck Friends is a French adult animated sex-education comedy web series by Balak and Bobbypills, two seasons 2018–2021, crowdfunded after Blackpills dropped it.
Peeps
Peeps are sugar-coated marshmallow chicks and bunnies made by Just Born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, since it acquired Rodda Candy in 1953; 2 billion a year, best-selling non-chocolate Easter candy, famously polarizing.
Peer Bork
Peer Bork (1963–2026) was a German computational biologist at EMBL Heidelberg, best known for the STRING protein-interaction database, the iTOL tree tool, and the concept of gut microbiome enterotypes.
PEER Consultants
PEER Consultants, P.C. is an environmental engineering consulting firm founded in 1978 by Dr. Lilia A. Abron, a chemical and environmental engineer who leads it as president and CEO.
Peer effects
Peer effects are the causal influences that the composition or behavior of a reference group, such as classmates, roommates, or neighbors, exerts on an individual's own outcomes, studied in economics.
Peer Fischer
Peer Fischer is a German-based physicist and professor at Heidelberg University who heads a Max Planck lab in Heidelberg, known for micro- and nanorobotics and the first acoustic hologram.
Peer group
Peer group: a social group whose members share interests, social position, and age, studied as an agent of socialization. Covers Harris's group socialization theory, meta-analytic peer influence effects (g = 0.47), conformity mechanisms, and peer learning.
Peer Gynt
Peer Gynt is Henrik Ibsen's five-act 1867 dramatic poem, written in Danish, about a self-absorbed Norwegian fantasist's lifetime of evasion; premiered 1876 with Edvard Grieg's incidental music and regarded as Norway's national play.
Peer Gynt (Grieg)
Peer Gynt, Op. 23 is Edvard Grieg's 1874–75 incidental music for Ibsen's verse drama, premiered 24 February 1876 in Christiania; known through the two suites Opp. 46 and 55 with Morning Mood and In the Hall of the Mountain King.
Peer instruction
Peer instruction is a classroom teaching method introduced by Eric Mazur at Harvard in which students answer a conceptual question, discuss with neighbors, and vote again.
Peer pressure
Peer pressure is influence by a peer group to conform to group norms. Also called peer-group pressure; distinguished from general conformity by its group-member setting, with normative and informational motives.