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Plandemic
Plandemic, also called Plandemic: The Hidden Agenda Behind Covid-19, is a 2020 conspiratorial pseudo-documentary series by Mikki Willis featuring discredited researcher Judy Mikovits; its false claims about COVID-19, vaccines, and Fauci were debunked by FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, and AFP.
Plane
In geometry, a plane is a two-dimensional flat surface, one of the basic undefined objects, with the point and line, on which geometry is built.
Plane (Dungeons & Dragons)
In Dungeons & Dragons, a plane of existence is an alternate dimension of reality beyond the Material Plane, home to gods, demons, and angels, first described in 1977.
Plane (esotericism)
In Theosophy, a plane, also called a plane of existence, is a level of existence or state of consciousness defined by density of matter, not location.
Plane (film)
Plane is a 2023 American action thriller directed by Jean-François Richet, starring Gerard Butler as an airline pilot who lands on a militia-controlled Philippine island and must protect his passengers.
Plane (tool)
A plane, also called a hand plane, is a woodworking hand tool with a sharpened blade in a flat-soled body that shaves thin layers from wood to flatten or smooth it.
Plane Crazy
Plane Crazy (1928) is the first Mickey Mouse cartoon made, a silent Disney short animated by Ub Iwerks, test-screened May 15, 1928, and released with sound March 17, 1929 after Steamboat Willie's success.
Plane Jane
Plane Jane, drag persona of Andrew Dunayevskiy (born 1998), is a Boston-based Russian-Jewish American drag queen who placed third on RuPaul's Drag Race Season 16 with four challenge wins, then competed on House of Villains Season 3 and Project Runway Season 22.
Plane mirror
A plane mirror, or flat mirror, is a flat reflective surface forming a virtual, upright, same-size image as far behind the mirror as the object is in front.
Plane of array irradiance
Plane of array (POA) irradiance is the solar radiation, in watts per square meter, that strikes a photovoltaic array's tilted surface, differing from horizontal irradiance through tilt, azimuth, and tracking.
Plane partition
A plane partition is a partition of an integer n whose parts are arranged in a two-dimensional array, weakly decreasing across rows and down columns.
Plane stress
Plane stress is a two-dimensional stress state in which the out-of-plane stresses vanish, describing thin plates loaded in their plane and used as a simplification in elasticity and finite element analysis.
Plane tree (Platanus) pollen allergen skin prick test solution
悬铃木花粉变应原皮肤点刺液 (Platanus pollen allergen skin prick solution), Wolwo Bio-Pharmaceutical's Class 1 biological product approved by China's NMPA in December 2024 (国药准字S20240057); skin prick test reagent aiding diagnosis of Platanus pollen type I allergy, sensitivity 91.13%, specificity 88.39%.
Plane warts
Plane warts (verruca plana, flat warts) are small, smooth, flat-topped HPV type 3/10 papules clustered on the face, hands, or shins, mostly in children; about 4–8% of skin warts, often clearing spontaneously.
Plane wave
A plane wave is a wave whose value is constant over every plane perpendicular to its direction of travel, depending on only one coordinate and time.
Plane wave expansion method
The plane wave expansion (PWE) method is a numerical technique that expands wave fields in plane waves, converting periodic-medium equations into matrix eigenvalue problems to compute photonic band structures.
Plane wave imaging
Plane wave imaging is an ultrasound method that transmits an unfocused plane wave covering the whole region at once, reaching ultrafast frame rates conventional focused scanning cannot attain.
Plane xanthoma
Plane xanthoma (planar xanthoma) is a flat, yellow xanthoma of the skin occurring as xanthelasma, palmar crease xanthoma, or diffuse plane xanthoma, signaling dyslipidemia, cholestasis, or hematologic disease.
Plane-wave basis set
A plane-wave basis set is a set of plane-wave functions built from a crystal's reciprocal lattice, used to expand one-electron wavefunctions in solid-state density-functional theory calculations.
Planes (film)
Planes is a 2013 American computer-animated comedy from DisneyToon Studios, a spin-off of Pixar's Cars following crop duster Dusty, who competes in an around-the-world air race despite fearing heights.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a 1987 American comedy directed by John Hughes, starring Steve Martin and John Candy as mismatched travelers trying to get home for Thanksgiving.
Planes: Fire & Rescue
Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014) is a Disneytoon Studios animated sequel to Planes, directed by Bobs Gannaway, in which racer Dusty Crophopper becomes an aerial firefighter at Piston Peak National Park after his gearbox fails; consulted with CAL FIRE, grossed $59.2 million.
Planescape
Planescape is a Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting launched in 1994 by TSR (David "Zeb" Cook), set on the planes and centered on Sigil, the City of Doors, ruled by the Lady of Pain; it spawned Planescape: Torment and returned for 5e in 2023.
Planescape: Torment
Planescape: Torment, Black Isle Studios' 1999 Infinity Engine CRPG for Interplay, follows the amnesiac immortal Nameless One through D&D's Planescape setting; dialogue-driven, critically acclaimed, later re-released as Beamdog's Enhanced Edition.
PlaneSense
PlaneSense is a fractional aircraft ownership program based at Portsmouth International Airport in New Hampshire. Founded by George Antoniadis in 1995, it flies the Pilatus PC-12 and PC-24.
Planet
A planet, sometimes called a major planet, is a body orbiting the Sun that is nearly round and has cleared its orbital neighborhood, a definition adopted in 2006.
Planet (locomotive)
Planet was an 1830 2-2-0 steam locomotive built by Robert Stephenson & Co. for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the first with horizontal inside cylinders, the standard locomotive layout.
Planet 51
Planet 51 is a 2009 computer-animated sci-fi comedy from Spain's Ilion Animation Studios, directed by Jorge Blanco, Javier Abad, and Marcos Martínez, reversing E.T.: a human astronaut lands on a 1950s-style alien world that fears invasion. Budget $70 million; worldwide gross about $105.6 million.
Planet Coaster
Planet Coaster is a 2016 theme park construction and management sim by Frontier Developments for PC, with Career, Sandbox, and Challenge modes, Steam Workshop blueprints, and a 2024 sequel, Planet Coaster 2.
Planet Coaster 2
Planet Coaster 2 is Frontier Developments' theme park management sim, released 6 November 2024 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series S|X. It adds water parks, pools, and flumes, Career/Franchise/Sandbox modes, co-op multiplayer, and sold over 600,000 units.