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Prometheus (company)
Prometheus Group is a privately held American software company, founded in 1998 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, that develops enterprise asset management software for industries such as oil and gas and utilities.
Prometheus (crater)
Prometheus (crater) is an IAU-named eruptive center, not an impact crater, on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io; a persistent ~100 km Prometheus-type plume first seen by Voyager in 1979, whose plume site migrated ~75-80 km west by the Galileo era.
Prometheus (DC Comics)
Prometheus (DC Comics): Justice League supervillain created by Grant Morrison and Arnie Jorgensen, first appearing in New Year's Evil: Prometheus #1 (1998). An anti-Batman genius whose helmet downloads martial arts skills; distinct from the earlier Curt Calhoun Prometheus of Blue Beetle.
Prometheus (Manship)
Prometheus (Manship): 18-foot, eight-ton gilded cast bronze by Paul Manship at Rockefeller Center's Lower Plaza, debuted January 1934, first gilded 1937, with an Aeschylus inscription and a 2025 regilding.
Prometheus (software)
Prometheus is an open-source metrics monitoring and alerting system with a multidimensional time-series data model and the PromQL query language, started at SoundCloud in 2012 and now the default metrics layer for Kubernetes.
Prometheus (tree)
Prometheus (WPN-114) was a Great Basin bristlecone pine on Wheeler Peak, Nevada, cut down in 1964 by Donald R. Currey; its 4,862 rings made it the oldest tree then dated, about 4,900 years old.
Prometheus (Προμηθεύς)
Prometheus (Προμηθεύς), a Titan in Greek mythology, son of Iapetus, meaning "forethought"; stole fire for humankind in a fennel stalk and was punished with an eagle eating his liver, as told by Hesiod and the tragedy Prometheus Bound.
Prometheus Award
The Prometheus Award, presented by the Libertarian Futurist Society since 1982 (founded 1979 by L. Neil Smith), honors libertarian/pro-freedom science fiction with Best Novel and Hall of Fame categories and a gold-coin trophy.
Prometheus Biosciences
Prometheus Biosciences, founded as Precision IBD, Inc. in 2016, was a San Diego clinical-stage biotech developing precision-medicine treatments for inflammatory bowel disease, acquired by Merck for about $10.8 billion in 2023.
Prometheus Bound
Prometheus Bound (Προμηθεὺς δεσμώτης, Prometheus Vinctus) is a Greek tragedy of disputed authorship in the Aeschylean corpus, showing the chained Titan defying Zeus through visitors including Oceanus, Io, and Hermes.
Prometheus Mensa
Prometheus Mensa is a 178.70 km flat-topped mountain (mensa) on Jupiter's moon Io, IAU-approved 2006, named for the Greek fire god, at 2.49S 152.17W beside the persistently active Prometheus volcano and plume.
Prometheus Unbound (Shelley)
Prometheus Unbound (1820) is Percy Bysshe Shelley's four-act lyrical drama reworking the Prometheus myth, published by C. and J. Ollier; composed 1818-1819 at Este, Rome, and Florence, with Act 4 added as an afterthought.
Prometryn
Prometryn is a selective methylthio-s-triazine herbicide, first registered in 1964 by Ciba, that kills annual grasses and broadleaf weeds in cotton and celery by inhibiting photosynthesis.
Promigas Pipeline Network
The Promigas Pipeline Network is the natural gas transportation system operated by Promigas, a Colombian utility founded in 1974 and headquartered in Barranquilla, carrying about 56% of Colombia's gas.
Prominent veins
Prominent veins (隆起した静脈, ICD-11 MC88) are unusually visible or bulging superficial veins, caused by low body fat, exercise, heat, aging, or varicose veins from valve failure; duplex ultrasound evaluates reflux.
Prominin
Prominin (prominin-1, CD133, AC133 antigen), encoded by human PROM1 on chromosome 4, is a pentaspan membrane glycoprotein concentrated in microvilli and protrusions, a stem cell and cancer stem cell marker, and linked to retinal degeneration.
Promiscuity
Promiscuity, also called promiscuous sexual behavior, means having many different sexual partners or casual relationships. Distinguished by its etymology, self-report measurement problems, evolutionary context, double standards, and links to relationship outcomes and STD transmission.
Promiscuous (song)
Promiscuous is a 2006 single by Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland from the album Loose, also called The BlackBerry Song. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks and peaked at number 3 in the UK.
Promiscuous mode
Promiscuous mode is a network interface mode in which the hardware address filter is switched off, so the host receives every packet, used chiefly for packet capture.
Promise
Promise: a commissive speech act committing a speaker to a future action for a hearer's benefit, distinct from predictions and intentions. Covers Searle's felicity conditions, consideration in contract law, experimental economics of promise-keeping, and cross-cultural variation.
Promise (Sade album)
Promise is the second studio album by British band Sade, released in 1985; it topped the UK and US charts and won the band the 1986 Grammy for Best New Artist.
PROMISE 2 trial
PROMISE 2 (NCT02974153) was a phase 3 trial of intravenous eptinezumab (ALD403, Vyepti) 100 mg and 300 mg versus placebo in 1,072 adults with chronic migraine, reducing monthly migraine days by 2.0 to 2.6 over placebo.
Promise David
Promise David (Promise Oluwatobi Emmanuel David Akinpelu, born 2001, Brampton, Ontario), nicknamed Tobi, Canadian centre-forward, 1.95 m; Union Saint-Gilloise 41 goals in 82 games, 2025 Belgian title, Brighton loan 2026, Canada 14 caps, 2026 World Cup scorer.
Promise Me, America
Promise Me, America is Joe Biden's presidential memoir (Little, Brown, November 17, 2026), his third book after Promises to Keep and Promise Me, Dad, covering his presidency and 2024 withdrawal.
Promise of Wizard (魔法使いの約束)
Promise of Wizard (魔法使いの約束, Mahoyaku) is coly's free-to-play iOS/Android training game launched November 26, 2019, in which the Sage bonds with 21 wizards of five countries against the Great Calamity moon; TV anime aired January 2025.
PROMISE trial (NCT06416215)
PROMISE (NCT06416215, PROMISE_BO_2024) is a University of Bologna randomized pilot trial testing a Well-Being Therapy-based group intervention plus nutrition education versus basic nutritional intervention for weight loss in adults with obesity; 50 participants, completed December 2024.
PROMISE trial (NCT07680595)
PROMISE (NCT07680595, RX-2006-001) is a phase 1/2 exploratory cohort trial at Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai, testing atorvastatin 20 mg daily with or without folic acid 5 mg daily for 6 months on carotid plaque stability in 180 adults; distinct from other PROMISE-named trials.
Promised Land
Promised Land: the biblical land of Canaan God promised to Abraham and his descendants (Genesis 12:7, 15:18-21), a motif spanning the Hebrew Bible, Christian and Islamic interpretation, and modern Israeli-Palestinian political theology.
Promised Land (1987 film)
Promised Land (1987) is an American drama directed by Michael Hoffman, starring Jason Gedrick, Kiefer Sutherland, Meg Ryan, and Tracy Pollan; a Sundance-developed, Robert Redford-executive-produced film released January 1988 about small-town friends and a fatal robbery.
Promised Land (1996 TV series)
Promised Land (プロミスト・ランド) is a CBS family drama (1996–1999), a Touched by an Angel spin-off created by Martha Williamson, starring Gerald McRaney as Russell Greene, whose family travels America in an Airstream trailer; 69 episodes, three seasons.