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Presidio Partners
Presidio Partners, formerly CMEA Capital, is a San Francisco venture capital firm investing in life sciences, information technology, and energy technology; it adopted the Presidio name in 2015 and closed a $142 million fund.
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR: standing body of the Supreme Soviet acting between sessions, issuing decrees; its Chairman was nominal Soviet head of state (Kalinin through Gorbachev).
Preslav Literary School
The Preslav Literary School (Преславска книжовна школа) was one of the two literary schools of the First Bulgarian Empire, active at Pliska and Preslav from the late 9th century.
Preslava
Preslava (Преслава) is a Bulgarian pop-folk singer, born Petya Koleva Ivanova in Dobrich in 1984, who signed with Payner in 2004 and is among Bulgaria's most awarded singers.
Presnel Kimpembe
Presnel Kimpembe, French centre-back born 1995, PSG academy product and 2018 World Cup winner with France (28 caps). Twenty years at Paris Saint-Germain, 2025 Champions League winner, then Qatar SC and Al-Kharitiyath after an Achilles rupture.
Prešov
Prešov (Eperjes) is Slovakia's third largest city, administrative center of the Prešov Region in the east, first mentioned in 1247, granted town privileges in 1299, with about 81,700 inhabitants in 2025.
Presque Isle State Park
Presque Isle State Park is a 3,200-acre sand spit into Lake Erie at Erie, Pennsylvania, the state's only seashore, a National Natural Landmark with seven miles of beaches, 339+ bird species, and 58 erosion-control breakwaters.
PRESS (MRI sequence)
PRESS (point resolved spectroscopy) is an MRI sequence that localizes magnetic resonance spectroscopy signal from a single rectangular volume of tissue using a 90° pulse and two 180° pulses.
Press Act 1910
The Press Act 1910 (प्रेस अधिनियम १९१०) was a British Indian law requiring presses to deposit security and allowing forfeiture of objectionable publications, repealed in 1922.
Press Council of India
The Press Council of India is an autonomous quasi-judicial statutory body created in 1966 to safeguard press freedom and uphold newspaper standards, functioning under the Press Council Act, 1978.
Press Gang
Press Gang is a British ITV comedy drama (1989–1993, 43 episodes) about teenagers running the Junior Gazette newspaper; all episodes written by Steven Moffat, starring Julia Sawalha and Dexter Fletcher.
Press Information Bureau (प्रेस सूचना कार्यालय)
Press Information Bureau (प्रेस सूचना कार्यालय, PIB), India's nodal government media-dissemination agency under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting; founded 1946 from 1919 origins, runs 8 regional offices and the Fact Check Unit (est. 2019).
Press kit
A press kit, also known as a media kit or electronic press kit, is a package of background information and downloadable assets that helps journalists cover an organization or event.
Press Metal Aluminium Holdings
Press Metal Aluminium Holdings is a Malaysian aluminum producer founded by Paul Koon and his brothers in 1986, the largest integrated aluminum producer in Southeast Asia.
Press of the French Revolution
The press of the French Revolution was the mass of political newspapers founded in France from 1789 to 1799, when the fall of censorship produced hundreds of titles.
Press release
Press release (news release): a written statement distributed to news media announcing newsworthy events, studies, or launches. Uses inverted-pyramid format; heavily relied on by journalists, but criticized for exaggeration in science coverage.
Press TV
Press TV (PressTV) is Iran's first 24/7 English-language international news channel, launched by IRIB in July 2007 in Tehran. Unlike Al Jazeera English or RT, it is OFAC-sanctioned, lost its UK Ofcom licence in 2012, and broadcasts mainly via Telegram and Rumble.
Press Ups
Press Ups (also Touch and Go, Basis 10, Brain Fight) is a 1974 two-player abstract pegboard game by Yigal Bogoslavski, published by Invicta; players press pegs adjacent to the last one pressed, and the generalized game is PSPACE-complete.
Press Your Luck
Press Your Luck is an American game show created by Bill Carruthers and Jan McCormack, aired on CBS 1983-1986 with Peter Tomarken, famous for the Whammy and Michael Larson's $110,237 win, revived on ABC in 2019 with Elizabeth Banks.
Press Your Luck scandal
The Press Your Luck scandal saw contestant Michael Larson win $110,237 in 1984 on the CBS game show by memorizing its Big Board's supposedly random patterns.
Press-hardened steel
Press-hardened steel, also called hot-stamping steel, is a boron-alloyed sheet steel, most commonly 22MnB5, formed hot and quenched in dies to reach about 1500 MPa, widely used in car body reinforcements.
Press–Schechter formalism
The Press–Schechter formalism is a 1974 analytic method in cosmology that predicts the abundance of dark matter halos, introduced by William H. Press and Paul Schechter.
Pressboard
Pressboard, also known as transformerboard, is a high-density cellulose board used as electrical insulation in oil-filled power transformers, serving as spacers, barriers, and clamping parts.
Pressure
Pressure is the force applied perpendicular to a surface divided by the area, written p = F/A, measured in pascals and central to the physics of fluids.
Pressure (2026 film)
Pressure (2026 film), Anthony Maras war drama adapted from David Haig's 2014 play, stars Andrew Scott as D-Day meteorologist James Stagg and Brendan Fraser as Eisenhower; released May 29, 2026, 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Pressure acid leaching
Pressure acid leaching (PAL), usually called high-pressure acid leaching (HPAL), extracts nickel and cobalt from lateritic ores with sulfuric acid in autoclaves at about 250 °C and 45–50 bar.
Pressure angle
The pressure angle of a gear is the angle between the line of action of the tooth force and the pitch circle tangent; standard values are 14.5°, 20°, and 25°.
Pressure broadening
Pressure broadening, also called collisional broadening, is the widening of a spectral line caused by collisions that shorten the lifetime of the emitting or absorbing state.
Pressure Busspipe
Pressure Busspipe, born Delyno Brown in 1981, is a reggae singer-songwriter from St Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, best known for the 2007 hit "Love and Affection".
Pressure compensator
A pressure compensator is a hydraulic control element that adjusts pump displacement or valve pressure drop to keep flow or pressure constant under changing loads.