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PLUR
PLUR (Peace, Love, Unity, Respect) is the rave and EDM community's ethos code, attributed to DJ Frankie Bones and early-1990s New York Storm Rave parties, expressed through kandi trading and debated amid commercialization; distinct from the PLUR agent-memory standard and PLUR Network platform.
Plural
Plural: the grammatical number form signaling more than one referent, as in English dogs. Also called plural number. WALS typology: 513 of 1,066 languages use plural suffixes; obligatory plural marking clusters in Eurasia and Africa, optionality in Asia and Australia.
Plural voting
Plural voting, also called multiple or weighted voting, let one elector cast several votes, notably in Britain via business and university votes until the Representation of the People Act 1948 abolished it.
Plurale tantum
Plurale tantum (plural pluralia tantum), Latin for "plural only": a noun used only in plural form with no singular, like English scissors, trousers, clothes, or Russian sani; grammatically plural yet often denoting a single object.
Pluralism (philosophy)
Pluralism in philosophy is the view that the entities or principles in question are many, opposed to monism. Spans ontological pluralism (many modes of being), William James's metaphysics, value pluralism (Berlin, Galston), truth, logical, and scientific pluralism.
Pluralism (political philosophy)
Pluralism in political philosophy holds that a political body should accommodate diverse interests, convictions, and lifestyles. Covers Berlin's value pluralism, Rawls's reasonable pluralism and overlapping consensus, Galston's expressive liberty, and Dahl's dispersed-power theory.
Pluralism (political theory)
Pluralism (political theory): the view that power is dispersed among autonomous groups rather than a unitary state. Associated with Laski's British pluralists, Bentley, Truman, and Dahl's interest-group polyarchy, later revised as neopluralism.
Pluralism in economics
Pluralism in economics is the position that economics should admit a range of theories and methods, not just a single dominant framework built on optimizing agents and equilibrium.
Plurality (2021 film)
Plurality (複身犯) is a 2021 Taiwanese sci-fi crime thriller directed by Aozaru Shiao, starring Tony Yang, Sandrine Pinna, and Frederick Lee; five bus-crash victims' consciousnesses are uploaded into a death-row prisoner to solve child kidnappings.
Plurality block voting
Plurality block voting (block vote, plurality-at-large voting): a multi-member plurality system where each voter casts as many votes as seats and the top n candidates win; used in Mauritius, Brazil, Iran, and the Philippines.
Plurality voting
Plurality voting, or first past the post, is an electoral system where the candidate with the most votes wins, even without a majority. It is used in the US, UK, and India.
Plurality-at-large voting
Plurality-at-large voting, also called bloc voting or the multiple non-transferable vote, is an electoral system for multi-member districts in which voters cast as many votes as there are seats.
Pluribus
Pluribus is an AI poker program by Carnegie Mellon's Tuomas Sandholm and Noam Brown with Facebook AI that beat professionals in six-player no-limit Texas hold'em in 2019.
Pluribus (TV series)
Pluribus is a Vince Gilligan sci-fi drama on Apple TV starring Rhea Seehorn as Carol Sturka, one of 13 people immune to an alien hive-mind virus; premiered November 7, 2025, nine episodes, renewed for season 2.
Pluribus Networks
Pluribus Networks was an American networking company founded in 2010 that developed the Linux-based Netvisor ONE operating system and controllerless software-defined networking for data center switches.
Pluricentric language
Pluricentric language (polycentric language): a language with several codified national standard varieties, such as English, German, Dutch, Spanish, or French, each nation acting as a norm-setting center; contrasted with the pluriareal model of variation.
Pluripotent stem cell
Pluripotent stem cells (ESCs and iPSCs) self-renew and differentiate into all three germ layers but not placenta; iPSCs were created in 2006 by Yamanaka's four-factor reprogramming, Nobel Prize 2012.
Plurisexuality
Plurisexuality, also called bi+, is an umbrella research term for sexual identities involving potential attraction to more than one sex or gender, including bisexual, pansexual, omnisexual, queer, and fluid identities, distinct from monosexual identities.
Plus and minus signs
The plus sign (+) and minus sign (−) are mathematical symbols for addition and subtraction, first printed in 1489 in Johannes Widmann's Leipzig arithmetic book.
Plus Collective
Plus Collective is a Venice, California venture capital platform that pools accredited artists, athletes, and cultural leaders into access funds run by Plus Capital Management.
Plus minus
Plus-Minus Jass (Plus-Minus-Jass), a Swiss Jass point-trick card game for 3-4 players with a 36-card pack; both highest and lowest card-point totals score sticks, first to 7 sticks wins.
Plus One (2019 film)
Plus One (2019) is an American romantic comedy directed and written by Jeff Chan and Andrew Rhymer, starring Maya Erskine and Jack Quaid as single friends who attend ten weddings as each other's plus one; it won the 2019 Tribeca Narrative Audience Award.
Plus Power
Plus Power is a privately held American company that develops, owns, and operates standalone utility-scale battery storage, founded in 2018 by Brandon Keefe and Alex Fraenkel.
Plus ultra
Plus ultra, Latin for "further beyond", reverses non plus ultra and was adopted by Charles V of Spain in 1516 as imperial motto; it remains Spain's national motto on the Pillars of Hercules coat of arms.
Plus-size clothing
Plus-size clothing is apparel for bodies above a retailer's standard range, commonly from US size 14. Covers stoutwear history via Lane Bryant (1904), ASTM 14W–40W sizing, a USD 311.4 billion global market, fit problems, and the GLP-1-era retail pullback.
Plus-size model
Plus-size model: a fashion model above the industry's straight-size range, also called curve models. Distinctive facts: the modeling threshold sits far below retail plus-size (a US 10 can qualify), non-White models are 4.5 times more likely to be plus-size, and runway plus-size share is only about 0.3%.
Plus-Sized Misadventures in Love!
Plus-Sized Misadventures in Love! (デブとラブと過ちと！, Debu to Love to Ayamachi to!) is a mamakari shōjo manga on Comic C'moA about amnesiac office worker Yumeko Kōda, with a 2022 live-action drama and a 2025 Marvy Jack TV anime.
Plus–minus sign
The plus or minus symbol (±) is a mathematical sign indicating a value may be either added or subtracted, also used to report measurement uncertainty.
Plus.ai
PlusAI is an autonomous trucking software company founded in Silicon Valley in 2016 and based in Santa Clara, California, known for its Level 4 SuperDrive system.
Plush (band)
Plush is an all-female American hard rock band formed in Albany, New York, in 2020, led by Moriah Formica (The Voice). Known for "Hate" (No. 24 Billboard Rock), albums Plush (2021) and Mass Hysteria (2026), and tours with Disturbed, KISS, and Evanescence; distinct from Liam Hayes's Plush and Pllush.