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Pinch analysis
Pinch analysis is a thermodynamics-based process integration method that sets minimum energy targets for heating and cooling, then guides heat exchanger network design; case studies report 20 to 40 percent savings.
Pinch grasping
Pinch grasping is a grasping strategy in which two opposing gripper fingers squeeze an object by friction, the grasp mode of the parallel-jaw gripper common in industry.
Pinch hitter
Pinch hitter (PH): a baseball substitute who bats in the replaced player's batting-order spot. First used 1889 (Mickey Welch); term coined 1896; Yogi Berra hit the first World Series pinch-hit homer in 1947.
Pinch Strength
Pinch strength: force exerted by the index finger and thumb, measured by pinch gauge as maximum voluntary contraction. Types are tip, three-jaw chuck, and lateral pinch; reliability ICC > 0.75-0.90, correlated with grip strength (r 0.72-0.92).
Pinchas Menachem Alter (Pnei Menachem)
Pinchas Menachem Alter, known as Pnei Menachem, was the sixth Rebbe of the Ger Hasidic dynasty in Israel from 1992 until his death in 1996.
Pincho
Pincho (Basque pintxo) is a small Basque bar snack, typically bread topped with food held by a skewer, invented in 1930s San Sebastián; famous example the gilda; eaten bar-to-bar, paid per piece, distinct from free tapas.
Pincian obelisk
Pincian obelisk, also called Aurelian or Barberini obelisk: a 9.25 m pink Aswan granite obelisk commissioned by Hadrian after AD 130 for Antinous, carved with hieroglyphs in Rome, found near Porta Maggiore, erected on the Pincio in 1822.
Pinctada
Pinctada, described by Röding in 1798, is a genus of saltwater pearl oysters in the family Pteriidae whose nacreous shells produce the world's commercial cultured pearls.
Pind Peya Saara Jombieland Baneya (ਪਿੰਡ ਪੈ ਸਾਰਾ ਜੌਂਬੀਲੈਂਡ ਬਣੇਆ)
Pind Peya Saara Jombieland Baneya (ਪਿੰਡ ਪੈ ਸਾਰਾ ਜੌਂਬੀਲੈਂਡ ਬਣੇਆ), also released as Jombieland, is a 2025 Punjabi-language zombie horror comedy directed by Deepak Thaper, starring Binnu Dhillon, Kanika Mann, Angira Dhar and G Khan, released 13 June 2025, 128 minutes, CBFC UA 16+.
Pinda Taila
Pinda Taila (Pinda Thailam) is a classical Ayurvedic cooling medicated oil, AFI-listed, made with beeswax, Manjishtha, Sarjarasa, and Sariva in sesame oil, applied externally for Vatarakta (gout) pain and burning sensations.
Pindale
Pindale (Burmese: ပင်းတလဲမင်း) was the ninth king of the Toungoo dynasty of Burma, reigning at Ava from 1648 until 1661, when his brother Pye deposed and executed him.
Pindam (పిండం)
Pindam (పిండం), the scariest film tagline, is a 2023 Telugu horror thriller directed by Saikiran Daida, starring Sriram, Kushee Ravi and Easwari Rao as demonologist Annamma, based on a Nalgonda incident across three timelines.
Pindar (Πίνδαρος)
Pindar (Πίνδαρος), 518–438 BC, Theban Greek lyric poet, greatest of antiquity; forty-five epinician victory odes for Olympian, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian Games survive of seventeen books.
Pindari
Pindari (Pindaree, Hindi पिंडारी): irregular mounted raiders and plunderers in India, 17th to early 19th century, serving Mughal and Maratha armies, then independent until crushed in the 1817–18 Pindari War.
Pindari raids
The Pindari raids (पिंडारी हल्ले) were plundering expeditions by irregular bands of Maratha horsemen under leaders like Karim Khan and Chitu, suppressed in the Pindari War of 1817–18.
Pindaric ode
A Pindaric ode is an ancient Greek choral lyric in three-part triads of strophe, antistrophe, and epode, best known through Pindar's victory odes celebrating athletes at the great games.
Pindaris
The Pindaris were irregular cavalry bands who plundered in lieu of pay, first recorded in 1689 and numbering about 30,000 before their defeat in the Pindari War of 1817–18.
Pindi Bhattian
Pindi Bhattian (پنڈی بھٹیاں), city and tehsil headquarters in Hafizabad District, Punjab, Pakistan; founded by Bhatti Rajputs in Akbar's time, home of folk hero Dulla Bhatti, 66,511 residents in 2023, on the M-2/M-4 motorways.
Piṇḍola-Bhāradvāja
Piṇḍola-Bhāradvāja (पिण्डोलभारद्वाज) was an early Buddhist monk whom the Buddha declared foremost of lion-roarers; in East Asian tradition he is the first of the sixteen arhats, worshipped as Binzuru in Japan.
Pindolol
Pindolol, sold as Visken, is a non-selective beta-blocker used mainly for high blood pressure, distinguished by intrinsic sympathomimetic activity, meaning it partly stimulates beta receptors while blocking them.
Pindrop Security, Inc.
Pindrop Security, Inc. is a privately held American cybersecurity company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, founded in 2011, best known for its Phoneprinting call-analysis and deepfake detection technology.
Pinduoduo (拼多多)
Pinduoduo (拼多多) is a Chinese social e-commerce platform where buyers form teams on social networks to unlock lower group prices, launched in 2015 and operated by PDD Holdings alongside Temu.
Pindus
Pindus (Πίνδος, Pindos), the largest mountain range of Greece and continuation of the Dinaric Alps, runs northwest–southeast across the mainland; highest peak Smolikas at 2,637 m, source of major rivers, with Northern Pindos National Park.
Pine
Pine (Pinus) is a large Northern Hemisphere conifer genus of about 175 species, defined by needle fascicles and woody seed cones; notable for 128-million-year-old lineage, fire-adapted serotinous cones, bristlecone longevity, and resin, timber, and edible-seed uses.
Pine Barrens (The Sopranos)
"Pine Barrens" is season 3, episode 11 of The Sopranos, aired May 6, 2001; written by Terence Winter, directed by Steve Buscemi. Paulie and Christopher lose a Russian mobster in the snowy New Jersey woods; his fate is never revealed.
Pine Bluff Arsenal
Pine Bluff Arsenal is a U.S. Army installation near Pine Bluff, Arkansas, established in 1941, which made chemical munitions and destroyed its chemical weapons stockpile by 2010.
Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Pine Bluff, Arkansas: county seat of Jefferson County and largest city of southeast Arkansas's Delta region, founded 1819 on the Arkansas River, once a cotton and railroad center, now home to UAPB and the Pine Bluff Arsenal.
Pine Brook Capital Partners
Pine Brook Capital Partners is a New York private equity firm founded in 2006 by Howard Newman, making growth equity investments in energy and financial services companies.
Pine Creek Oil and Gas Field
The Pine Creek Oil and Gas Field is an operating sour gas field in west-central Alberta, Canada, opened in 1957 and producing from Devonian, Jurassic, and Cretaceous reservoirs.
Pine Crest School
Pine Crest School (founded 1934) is an independent PK-12 day school in Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton, Florida, distinct from the unrelated Pinecrest Academy charter network. Ranked #1 US private school in the 2023 Challenge Index; $100M Ross gift funds a West Palm Beach campus.