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Picó (Colombian sound system)
A picó, or picó sound system, is a large hand-painted street sound system from Colombia's Caribbean coast, above all Barranquilla and Cartagena, central to champeta culture.
Pico 4
The Pico 4 is a standalone virtual reality headset made by Pico, owned by ByteDance, released in October 2022 as a direct competitor to the Meta Quest 2.
Pico Bolivar
Pico Bolívar, also called La Columna, is Venezuela's highest mountain at 4,978.4 ± 0.4 m by 2002 GPS survey (official 5,007 m since 1928), in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida; first climbed 5 January 1935.
Pico Caroni
Pico Caroni, born 1952 in Locarno, Switzerland, is a Swiss neurobiologist at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel known for discovering Nogo-A and for work on synaptic plasticity and learning.
Pico de Aneto
Pico de Aneto is a 3,404 m granite peak in the Maladeta massif of the central Pyrenees, in the province of Huesca, Spain, and the range's highest summit.
Pico de Bandeira
Pico de Bandeira, Portuguese Pico da Bandeira, is a 2,892-meter mountain in the Serra do Caparaó on the border of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo, the third-highest point in Brazil.
Pico de gallo
Pico de gallo (salsa fresca, salsa bandera, salsa cruda) is Mexico's fresh, uncooked chopped salsa of tomato, onion, chile, cilantro, and lime, chunkier and drier than blended salsa, with fruit-salad variants in some regions.
Pico de Neblina
Pico da Neblina, called Yaripo by the Yanomami, is Brazil's highest mountain at 2,995.30 meters, on the Brazil–Venezuela border in Amazonas and the highest in South America east of the Andes.
Pico de Orizaba
Pico de Orizaba (Citlaltépetl), Mexico's highest peak and North America's highest volcano, is a stratovolcano on the Puebla–Veracruz border, last erupting in 1846, whose Glaciar Norte is Mexico's last glacier.
Pico de São Tomé
Pico de São Tomé, highest peak of São Tomé Island and of São Tomé and Príncipe at 2,024 m, a volcanic summit on the Cameroon Volcanic Line northwest of the island's center.
Pico de Surf do Lodinho
Pico de Surf do Lodinho is an A-frame beach break surf spot in Espírito Santo, Brazil, near Aracruz, inside the APA Costa das Algas marine protected area; rated intermediate, best January to March, water about 25-26 °C.
Pico de Surf do Urubu
Pico de Surf do Urubu is a year-round beach-break surf spot at Praia dos Padres, Aracruz, Espírito Santo, Brazil, inside the APA Costa das Algas; A-frame waves, intermediate level, distinct from Guarapari's Praia do Urubu.
Pico del Mulhacén
Pico del Mulhacén, also Muley-Hacén, is a 3,479 m peak in Sierra Nevada, Granada, Spain, the highest of the Iberian Peninsula and second in Spain after Teide, named for the Nasrid sultan Muley Hacén.
Pico Duarte
Pico Duarte, formerly Pico Trujillo, is the highest mountain of the Dominican Republic, Hispaniola, and the Caribbean, in the Cordillera Central; officially 3,087 m, measured at 3,098 m (GPS, 2000) and 3,101.1 m (GNSS, 2021).
PICO framework
The PICO framework is a mnemonic that structures a clinical question into Population, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome; described in 1995, it is the most widely used such model.
Pico Island (island, Portugal)
Pico Island (Ilha do Pico), second largest of Portugal's nine Azores islands, 447.9 km², holds Mount Pico at 2,351 m, Portugal's highest point, and the UNESCO-listed basalt-walled vineyard landscape inscribed in 2004.
Pico Pedra da Mina (Pontan)
Pico Pedra da Mina (Pedra da Mina), 2,798.2 m, is Brazil's fourth highest point and the highest of Serra da Mantiqueira and São Paulo state, on the Queluz/Lavrinhas–Passa Quatro border; a nepheline syenite peak of the Passa Quatro Alkaline Complex.
PICO process
The PICO process is a framework that structures clinical questions into Population, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome, proposed in 1995 and standard in evidence-based medicine and systematic reviews.
Pico Turquino
Pico Turquino (Pico Real del Turquino), 1,974 m, is Cuba's highest peak, in the Sierra Maestra's Turquino National Park; climbed by guided treks from Alto del Naranjo (Granma) or Las Cuevas, near the Comandancia de la Plata.
PICO Venture Partners
PICO Venture Partners is a Jerusalem-based, early-stage, sector-agnostic venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Elie Wurtman, Todd Kesselman, and Gina LaVersa, with offices in Tel Aviv and New York.
Pico y Placa
Pico y Placa is a driving restriction in Colombian and Ecuadorian cities that bans private vehicles on weekdays by license plate digit, first used in Bogotá in 1998.
PICO-60
PICO-60 was a bubble chamber dark matter detector operated 2 km underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Ontario, setting the most stringent spin-dependent WIMP constraints of its time.
PicoBlaze
PicoBlaze is a free 8-bit RISC soft microcontroller core for Xilinx, now AMD, FPGAs, written by Ken Chapman and known internally as KCPSM; every instruction executes in 2 clock cycles.
Picocavity
A picocavity is an optical cavity formed by a single-atom defect on a metallic nanostructure, trapping visible light below 1 nm³ and enabling single-molecule spectroscopy.
Picoides
Picoides (Lacépède, 1799) is a woodpecker genus, once the largest in Picidae, now restricted to the three-toed woodpeckers and black-backed woodpecker after molecular phylogenies showed it was polyphyletic.
Picolinafen
Picolinafen (BAS 700H, CAS 137641-05-5) is a pyridinecarboxamide, PDS-inhibiting cereal herbicide introduced in 2001 for post-emergence broadleaf weed control in wheat and barley; EU-approved to 2031.
Picolinic acid
Picolinic acid, also called pyridine-2-carboxylic acid, is a pyridine carboxylic acid made from tryptophan in the body and used widely as a chelating ligand in chemistry.
Picoplatin
Picoplatin (ZD0473, AMD473), a sterically hindered 2-methylpyridine cisplatin analog developed to overcome platinum resistance; tested through phase III in small cell lung cancer but discontinued after failing to show a survival advantage.
Picornaviridae
Picornaviridae, the picornaviruses, is a family of small non-enveloped icosahedral positive-sense ssRNA viruses (6.7–10.1 kb genomes) in the order Picornavirales, including poliovirus, rhinovirus, hepatitis A virus, and foot-and-mouth disease virus.
PicoRV32
PicoRV32 is a size-optimized open-source RISC-V CPU core written in Verilog, implementing RV32IMC and fitting in 750 to 2000 LUTs, licensed under the permissive ISC license.