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Prey (novel)
Prey (2002) is Michael Crichton's techno-thriller novel, published by HarperCollins, about a predatory swarm of self-replicating nanoparticles that escapes a Nevada desert lab; distinct from John Sandford's Prey series and the Alien vs. Predator novel Prey.
Prey 2
Prey 2, a canceled 2011-announced first-person shooter by Human Head Studios and Bethesda, was to star bounty hunter Killian Samuels on the alien planet Exodus; development stopped in late 2011 and cancellation was confirmed in 2014.
Prey for the Devil
Prey for the Devil (originally The Devil's Light) is a 2022 Lionsgate supernatural horror film directed by Daniel Stamm, starring Jacqueline Byers as Sister Ann, a nun training to be the first female exorcist; it earned $19.8 million and weak reviews.
Prey Veng
Prey Veng (ខេត្តព្រៃវែង, "long forest") is a province of southeastern Cambodia on the Mekong's east bank: 4,883 km², 1,057,720 people (2019), third most populous, rice-producing, bordering Vietnam.
Prezi
Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software built on a zooming user interface, launched in Budapest, Hungary, in 2009 and now headquartered in San Francisco, claiming over 170 million users.
PRF1
PRF1 (perforin 1, P1, PFP) is the human gene encoding perforin, a three-exon, MACPF-domain pore-forming protein of cytotoxic lymphocytes that delivers granzymes; mutations cause FHL2 and other immune diseases.
Priabonian
The Priabonian is the last and youngest stage of the Eocene Epoch, from about 37.71 to 33.9 million years ago, named for the Italian village of Priabona.
Priam (Πρίαμος)
Priam (Πρίαμος), king of Troy in Greek myth, son of Laomedon, originally Podarces; father of Hector and Paris, ransomer of Hector's body in Iliad 24, killed by Neoptolemus.
Priam's Treasure
Priam's Treasure is a hoard of gold, silver, and copper objects uncovered by Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlık, the site of ancient Troy, in 1873, now held in Moscow.
Priapea
Priapea, also called Carmina Priapea or Corpus Priapeorum, is an anonymous collection of 80 obscene Latin epigrams devoted to the god Priapus, written between the Augustan period and CE 100.
Priapism
Priapism is a persistent penile erection unrelated to sexual stimulation, lasting over four hours. Subtypes are ischemic (over 95% of cases, an emergency), non-ischemic, and stuttering; treated by aspiration plus phenylephrine, shunts, or embolization.
Priapulida
Priapulida (penis worms) is a phylum of 22 marine ecdysozoan worms with a scalid-bearing introvert and molting cuticle, dominant Cambrian predators and bioturbators whose trace fossil Treptichnus pedum marks the Cambrian base.
Priapus (Πρίαπος)
Priapus (Πρίαπος), ithyphallic Greek and Roman god of gardens and fertility from Lampsacus, guardian who threatens intruders, son of Dionysus and Aphrodite, linked to Mutunus Tutunus and the Priapeia.
Pribram
FK Příbram is a Czech football club based in Příbram, founded in 1928 as SK Březové Hory, playing at Stadion Na Litavce in the second-tier Chance Národní Liga.
PriC
PriC (originally 'protein n') is an E. coli replication restart protein, a ~24 kDa five-helix bundle that loads the DnaB helicase onto SSB-coated ssDNA at stalled forks and rescues failed oriC initiation, independent of PriA.
Price
A price is the amount of money asked in exchange for a good, service, or asset; in economic theory, the market-clearing price is where quantity supplied equals quantity demanded.
Price ceiling
A price ceiling, or price cap, is a legal maximum price a seller may charge, such as rent control, which causes shortages when set below market price.
Price Chopper (Northeastern United States)
Price Chopper, also branded Market 32, is a supermarket chain of 129 stores across six Northeastern states, headquartered in Schenectady, New York, and owned by Northeast Grocery.
Price controls
Price controls, also called administered prices, are legal limits on prices for goods, labor, or rents; ceilings set below market prices cause shortages, floors cause surpluses.
Price discrimination
Price discrimination, also called differential pricing, is charging different customers different prices for the same product when the differences exceed any difference in the cost of serving them.
Price elasticity of demand
Price elasticity of demand, also known as demand elasticity, measures the percentage change in quantity demanded from a price change, and determines how tax burdens and price changes affect revenue.
Price elasticity of supply
Price elasticity of supply, also called elasticity of supply, measures how strongly the quantity producers offer responds to a price change; Alfred Marshall introduced the concept.
Price fixing
Price fixing: an illegal agreement among competitors to raise, lower, maintain, or stabilize prices, punished under the Sherman Act with prison and fines up to $100 million; cartel overcharges average 121% (Connor 2024), and leniency programs drive detection.
Price floor
A price floor is the lowest price one can legally pay for a good, service, or labor; the minimum wage is the best-known example, and binding floors create surpluses.
Price gouging
Price gouging is the practice of sellers sharply raising prices of essential goods and services during emergencies or shortages, beyond what their added costs justify.
Price index
A price index, or price indices, measures how the cost of a defined set of goods and services changes over time, most prominently the consumer price index.
Price is right, the
The Price is Right is a seven-card high-low stud poker variant for 3 to 7 players who buy five cards after two dealt face down; distinct from the retired Poker Game pricing game on the TV show.
Price leadership
Price leadership is a market structure in which one firm's price changes are accepted and followed by rivals, so the leader effectively sets the industry price.
Price liberalization
Price liberalization is the removal of government-set prices so supply and demand determine them, typically freeing most goods while energy, transport, and necessities stay regulated.
Price look-up code
A price look-up code, also known as a PLU code or produce code, is a four- or five-digit number on stickers identifying fresh produce at retail checkout, used since 1990.