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Presbyterian polity
Presbyterian polity, also called Presbyterian church governance, is a Protestant form of church government by elders and ministers in graded councils: session, presbytery, and General Assembly.
Presbyterianism
Presbyterianism, or Presbyterian Christianity, is a form of Protestant church life combining Reformed (Calvinist) theology with governance by elders in graded councils from sessions to General Assemblies.
Presbytis
Presbytis (surilis) is a genus of Sundaland leaf langurs in Colobinae, with 50+ color variants in 10–11 species; two radiations (late Miocene, Pleistocene); 24 of 28 taxa IUCN-threatened.
Preschool
Preschool: structured early education for children aged roughly 3 to 5 before primary school, rooted in Froebel's 1837 kindergarten, expanded by Head Start (1965) and now reaching 37% of US 4-year-olds in state-funded programs.
Preschool (film)
Preschool (2026) is a comedy film directed by and starring Josh Duhamel, with Michael Socha and Antonia Thomas, about two rival London fathers competing for the last spot at an elite preschool; released digitally March 17, 2026 via Republic Pictures.
Preschool Language Scale
The Preschool Language Scale (PLS) is a standardized, play-based test of receptive and expressive language in young children, used to screen for and diagnose language delay or disorder.
Prescott (microprocessor)
Prescott was the code name for Intel's 90 nm Pentium 4 processor, launched in 2004 with a 31-stage pipeline, 1 MB L2 cache, and SSE3 instructions.
Prescott Bush
Prescott Sheldon Bush (1895-1972), Brown Brothers Harriman partner and Republican U.S. senator from Connecticut 1952-1963; father of George H. W. Bush, grandfather of George W. Bush; UBC director whose firm's assets were seized in 1942.
Prescott Fire Department
Prescott Fire Department, the career all-hazards fire and EMS agency of Prescott, Arizona, founded 1885 and the oldest organized fire agency in Arizona; home of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, who lost 19 members in the 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire.
Prescott G. Woodruff
Prescott G. Woodruff is an American pulmonologist and physician-scientist who is chief of the pulmonary division at UCSF, known for research on molecular sub-phenotypes of asthma and COPD.
Prescott Island
Prescott Island: name of two official Canadian islands, one between Porcher and Stephens Islands, British Columbia, and one uninhabited Arctic island in Peel Sound, Nunavut; also a Minnesota river islet.
Prescott L. Deininger
Prescott L. Deininger is an American molecular geneticist at Tulane University School of Medicine, known for his work on Alu elements and L1 retrotransposons, mobile DNA sequences that drive genetic instability in cancer.
Prescott, Arizona
Prescott, Arizona: county seat of Yavapai County in north-central Arizona, founded 1864 as the first Arizona territorial capital (1864–67, 1877–89), population 45,827 in 2020, known for Courthouse Plaza, Whiskey Row, and the 1888 Frontier Days Rodeo.
Prescribed performance control
Prescribed performance control (PPC) is a control design methodology, proposed by Bechlioulis and Rovithakis in 2008, that fixes overshoot, convergence rate, and steady-state error in advance.
Prescription drug
Prescription drug (Rx medicine): a medicine legally supplied only on an authorized prescriber's order, unlike OTC drugs. Regulated via FDA NDA process and UK Human Medicines Regulations; class created by 1938 FDA rules, clarified by Durham-Humphrey 1951.
Prescriptive jurisdiction
Prescriptive jurisdiction is a state's authority to make its law applicable to persons, conduct, relations, or interests, one part of the tripartite division alongside enforcement and adjudicative jurisdiction.
Presearch (search engine)
Presearch was a decentralized search engine founded in 2017 by Colin Pape in which users earned PRE tokens for searching; it shut down in July 2026.
Presença (magazine)
Presença was a Portuguese literary magazine founded at Coimbra in 1927, the vehicle of Portugal's Second Modernism and one of the century's most influential literary reviews.
Presence (2024 film)
Presence (2024) is a Steven Soderbergh haunted-house film, written by David Koepp, shot entirely from a ghost's first-person POV. Premiered at Sundance 2024, released by NEON January 24, 2025, starring Lucy Liu and Callina Liang.
Presence (album)
Presence (1976) is Led Zeppelin's seventh studio album, released on Swan Song Records. Recorded in 18 days in Munich with Robert Plant in a wheelchair after his 1975 car crash, it hit number one but became their lowest-selling studio album.
Presence (DC Comics)
The Presence is DC Comics' supreme being, a fictionalized counterpart of the Abrahamic God, first appearing as "The Voice" in More Fun Comics #52 (1940), later featured in Vertigo's Sandman and Lucifer titles.
Présence Africaine
Présence Africaine is a Paris-based cultural journal, publishing house, and bookshop founded in 1947 by the Senegalese intellectual Alioune Diop, a central forum of the Négritude movement.
Presence information
Presence information is data describing a user's current availability and status on a network, such as online, offline, busy, or away, so others can see it before communicating.
PresenceLearning Holdings, Inc.
PresenceLearning Holdings, Inc., doing business as Presence, is a New York City education technology company founded in 2009 that connects K-12 schools with licensed clinicians delivering remote special education services.
Presencism
Presencism, or Presencismo, was the second phase of Portuguese modernism, an introspective, psychologizing literary movement active from 1927 to 1940 around the Coimbra magazine Presença.
Presendin (sustained-release exenatide)
Presendin is Invex Therapeutics' sustained-release exenatide (PLGA microsphere, once-weekly injection) for idiopathic intracranial hypertension; its Phase III IIH EVOLVE trial (NCT05347147) closed in August 2023 for commercial reasons after 14 enrollments.
Present
The present is the portion of time currently occurring, opposed to past and future: strictly a durationless boundary, experientially an interval of a few seconds.
Present bias
Present bias is the tendency to prefer smaller immediate rewards over larger delayed ones, modeled by quasi-hyperbolic discounting and explaining self-control failures such as procrastination and over-borrowing.
Present continuous
Present continuous, also called present progressive, is the English be + -ing construction (I am working) for actions in progress, temporary states, changes, and future arrangements; stative verbs resist it, and corpus studies show its stative spread plateaued.
Present Laughter
Present Laughter is a 1942 comedy of manners by Noël Coward about vain matinee idol Garry Essendine, a self-portrait role Coward played first; notable Garrys include Ian McKellen, Kevin Kline, Andrew Scott, and Tracy-Ann Oberman's gender-switched Geri.