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Plusnet
Plusnet, also known as Force9, is a British internet service provider based in Sheffield, Yorkshire, founded in 1997 and now operating as the value brand of BT Group.
PLUSO trial
PLUSO trial (NCT06632184), a phase IV triple-blind pilot RCT at IMSS Guadalajara testing 8 mg intraperitoneal ondansetron plus saline lavage versus saline alone for pain and PONV after laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
Plutarch (Πλούταρχος)
Plutarch (Πλούταρχος), Greek biographer and Platonist of Chaeronea (c. 45–125 CE), author of the Parallel Lives pairing Greek and Roman figures and of the Moralia; priest at Delphi, Roman citizen, dedicatee Sosius Senecio.
Plutarco Elías Calles
Plutarco Elías Calles (1877–1945), Mexican general and president 1924–1928, Jefe Máximo of the Maximato, founder of the PNR (later PRI) and of the Banco de México, exiled by Cárdenas in 1936.
Pluteaceae
Pluteaceae, a family of Agaricales fungi, now comprises the genera Pluteus (about 300 species, type P. cervinus) and Volvopluteus; Volvariella has been moved to Volvariellaceae.
Plutellidae
Plutellidae, the diamondback moth family, is a family of small Lepidoptera in superfamily Yponomeutoidea with about 48 genera and 150 species; its type genus Plutella includes P. xylostella, the world's worst crucifer pest.
Pluteus
Pluteus (deer mushrooms) is a genus of wood-decomposing agaric fungi in Pluteaceae, Agaricales, with free gills, pink spore print, no volva, sections Pluteus, Hispidoderma, Celluloderma, and a few psilocybin species such as P. salicinus.
Pluteus cervinus
Pluteus cervinus, the deer mushroom or deer shield (synonym Pluteus atricapillus), is a widespread wood-rotting Pluteaceae mushroom with a brown cap, free pink-gilled lamellae, and horned cystidia; it is the type species of Pluteus and heads a cryptic species complex.
Plutino
A plutino is a trans-Neptunian object locked in a 3:2 resonance with Neptune, orbiting the Sun twice for every three Neptune orbits; Pluto is the largest known member.
Plutinos
Plutinos are trans-Neptunian objects locked in a 3:2 orbital resonance with Neptune, named for Pluto, their largest member; more than 300 are known, orbiting near 39.4 AU.
Pluto
Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune, reclassified from ninth planet in 2006 and explored by NASA's New Horizons flyby of 2015.
Pluto (2026 film)
Pluto (പ്ലൂട്ടോ) is a 2026 Malayalam sci-fi comedy directed by Adithyan Chandrashekar, starring Neeraj Madhav and Althaf Salim as a luckless youth and an alcohol-powered alien; released July 30, 2026, streaming on Saina Play.
Pluto (Disney)
Pluto, also Pluto the Pup, is Disney's non-anthropomorphic cartoon dog, Mickey Mouse's pet, debuted unnamed in The Chain Gang (1930), named in The Moose Hunt (1931), starred in 48 shorts; Lend a Paw won the 1941 Oscar.
Pluto (Future album)
Pluto (Future album): Future's debut studio album, released April 17, 2012 on Epic Records, also called Pluto 3D in reissue; gold-certified, with singles "Tony Montana" and "Magic" featuring T.I., distinct from Mixtape Pluto (2024).
Pluto (Πλούτων) (mythology)
Plouton (Πλούτων, Latin Pluto), "the rich one", the Greek euphemistic name of the underworld god Hades, used in cult and the Eleusinian Mysteries from the 5th century BC; Rome adopted it as Pluto, equating him with Dis Pater.
Pluto (นิทาน ดวงดาว ความรัก) (Thai TV series)
Pluto (นิทาน ดวงดาว ความรัก) is a 2024 Thai GL series by GMMTV, adapted from Chao Planoy's novel, starring Namtan and Film; 12 episodes on GMM25 about twins, a blind lawyer, and identity deception.
Pluto (プルートウ) (Japanese TV series)
Pluto (プルートウ) is a 2023 Netflix anime series, 8 hour-long episodes by Studio M2, adapting Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki's manga reimagining of Tezuka's Astro Boy arc "The Greatest Robot on Earth," starring robot detective Gesicht; Metacritic 86.
Pluto LNG Terminal
Pluto LNG Terminal is a Woodside-operated liquefied natural gas plant on the Burrup Peninsula, Western Australia, producing 4.9 million tonnes of LNG a year since 2012.
Pluto TV
Pluto TV is a free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) service founded in 2013, acquired by Viacom for $340 million in 2019, now part of Paramount. It offers 350+ live channels and on-demand content in 35+ markets, funded by ads.
Plutocracy
Plutocracy: rule by the wealthy, from Greek ploutokratia. Covers the term's definition and classical roots, the Gilens and Page US policy-influence findings and their critics, cross-national replications, money-in-politics mechanisms, and contemporary cases such as India.
Plutonio Oil Field
Plutonio is a deepwater oil field in Block 18 offshore Angola, about 300 km northwest of Luanda, discovered in 1999 and producing since 2007 through the FPSO Greater Plutonio.
Plutonium
Plutonium is a radioactive, silvery-gray actinide metal with atomic number 94, first isolated at Berkeley in 1940, used in nuclear weapons, recycled reactor fuel, and spacecraft power sources.
Plutonium dioxide
Plutonium dioxide (PuO₂), also called plutonium(IV) dioxide, is the tetravalent oxide of plutonium, a refractory ceramic used as MOX fuel and in spacecraft power systems.
Plutonium disposition
Plutonium disposition is the conversion of surplus weapons-grade and civil plutonium into forms hard to reuse in weapons, by reactor fuel, immobilization, or dilution and disposal.
Plutonium pit
A plutonium pit is the spherical plutonium core at the center of a thermonuclear weapon, serving as the first-stage fission trigger that detonates its fusion reaction.
Plutonium-238
Plutonium-238 is a radioactive isotope of plutonium with an 87.7-year half-life that produces about 0.567 watts of heat per gram, used to power NASA spacecraft.
Plutonium-239
Plutonium-239 (Pu-239) is a fissile isotope of plutonium with a half-life of 24,110 years, produced from uranium-238 in nuclear reactors and used as the main explosive ingredient of nuclear weapons.
Plutonium-240
Plutonium-240 is a radioactive isotope of plutonium with a half-life of about 6,560 years, formed in reactors when plutonium-239 captures a neutron; its high spontaneous fission rate shaped early bomb design.
Plutonium(VII) compounds
Plutonium(VII) compounds contain plutonium in the +7 oxidation state, the highest confirmed state of the element, known almost entirely from short-lived alkaline solutions that are dark green.
Plutus
Plutus (Greek Ploutos, Πλοῦτος) is the Greek god and personification of wealth, son of Demeter and Iasion, blinded by Zeus; also Aristophanes' last surviving comedy (408/388 BC) about curing his blindness.