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Punch Powertrain

Punch Powertrain is an independent automotive powertrain supplier headquartered in Sint-Truiden, Belgium, producing CVTs, hybrid transmissions, and electric drivetrains for more than 30 car brands worldwide.

Oct 3, 2026

Punch Punch Forever!

Punch Punch Forever! (パンチパンチフォーエバー!) is an Irish-Japanese animated action-comedy web series created by animator Speedoru, premiering in 2023 on Newgrounds and YouTube as a parody of 1990s shōnen anime.

Sep 29, 2026

Punch test (materials testing)

The punch test, or punch testing, is a mechanical testing method in which a punch is pressed through a clamped specimen to measure shear strength or penetration resistance.

Punch-Drunk Love

Punch-Drunk Love is Paul Thomas Anderson's 2002 romantic comedy-drama starring Adam Sandler as Barry Egan, his first dramatic role, with Emily Watson and Philip Seymour Hoffman; it won Cannes Best Director 2002 and grossed $17.8M.

Sep 23, 2026

Punch-marked coins

Punch-marked coins (आहत मुद्रा) were India's first documented coinage, mostly silver pieces bearing symbols punched individually, issued from the 6th century BC through the Mauryan empire.

Punch-Out!!

Punch-Out!! (パンチアウト!!) is Nintendo's boxing series begun in arcades in 1983 by Genyo Takeda, starring Little Mac. Best known for the 1987 NES Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! and the 2009 Wii revival by Next Level Games.

Punch-Out!! (1984 video game)

Punch-Out!! (パンチアウト！！) is Nintendo's 1984 arcade boxing game by Nintendo R&D3 under Genyo Takeda, notable for its dual stacked monitors, green wireframe boxer, digitized speech, and six opponents including Glass Joe and Mr. Sandman.

Punch-Out!! (1987 video game)

Punch-Out!!, known in North America as Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, is a 1987 NES boxing game by Nintendo in which Little Mac climbs the circuits toward a final bout with Mike Tyson.

Punch-through

Punch-through is a failure mode of short-channel MOSFETs in which the source and drain depletion regions merge, creating a parasitic current path the gate cannot control, causing leakage and permanent damage.

Punchcutting

Punchcutting is the craft of cutting a character in mirror image on a steel punch, struck into copper to form a matrix from which metal type is cast.

Punchdrunk (theatre company)

Punchdrunk, British immersive theatre company founded in 2000 by Felix Barrett; pioneers of masked, free-roaming shows; Sleep No More ran in New York from 2011 and Shanghai from 2016; permanent Woolwich home since 2022.

Punched card

A punched card, or punch card, stores data as holes in stiff paper, dominant for data processing and computer input from the 1890s until the 1970s.

Punched tape

Punched tape, also called paper tape, is a paper strip storing data as patterns of punched holes, widely used for computers from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Oct 3, 2026

Punchline

Punchline is a 1988 American comedy-drama written and directed by David Seltzer, starring Sally Field as aspiring comedienne Lilah Krytsick and Tom Hanks as comic Steven Gold at a New York club; released 30 September 1988 by Columbia Pictures.

Punchmade Dev

Punchmade Dev, Lexington, Kentucky scam rapper (DevTakeFlight, OBN Dev), known for 'Wire Fraud Tutorial' and 'Internet Swiping'; albums UNDEFEATED, Richest Puncher, FREE_METHODS.zip; uncharged fraud allegations.

Oct 22, 2026

Punct

Punct was a Romanian avant-garde constructivist magazine published weekly in Bucharest in 1924 and 1925, led by Scarlat Callimachi and edited by Victor Brauner in 16 issues.

Punctal Plugs

Punctal plugs, also called punctal occlusion devices, are tiny implants placed in the eyelid's tear drainage openings to treat dry eye by slowing tear drainage; evidence of benefit is mixed, with epiphora and plug loss the main adverse effects.

Oct 20, 2026

Punctal stenosis

Punctal stenosis, or acquired lacrimal punctum stenosis, is narrowing or occlusion of the tear-drainage opening on the eyelid margin, causing epiphora. Defined as punctum under 0.3 mm; main causes are chronic blepharitis, ectropion, and medications; treated by punctoplasty or stenting.

Punctate inner choroidopathy

Punctate inner choroidopathy (PIC), also called punctate inner choroiditis, is a rare idiopathic inflammatory eye disease of the inner choroid and retina, affecting young myopic women, often complicated by choroidal neovascularization and vision loss.

Punctate palmoplantar keratoderma type 2

Punctate palmoplantar keratoderma type 2 (PPKP2, spiny keratoderma, porokeratotic type, OMIM 175860): rare autosomal dominant PPK with 1–2 mm spiny palmoplantar lesions from puberty, unknown gene, cornoid lamella-like histology.

Punctuated equilibrium

Punctuated equilibrium, or punctuated equilibria, is an evolutionary theory proposed by Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould in 1972: species show long stasis, with morphological change concentrated in rapid pulses at speciation, contrasting with phyletic gradualism.

Punctuation

Punctuation: standardized marks (period, comma, semicolon, dash, apostrophe) that structure and clarify written text. Origins with Aristophanes of Byzantium; systematized by Aldus Manutius; encoded in Unicode General Punctuation U+2000..U+206F.

Punctures

Punctures (MeSH D011677), needle incisions of tissue for diagnostic or therapeutic procedures, including vascular access, micropuncture, lumbar puncture, and biopsy; Seldinger technique and ultrasound guidance.

Sep 29, 2026

Puncturing (coding theory)

Puncturing is a channel coding technique that deletes selected coded bits before transmission to raise the code rate, letting one mother code serve several rates.

Pundit

Pundit: a person offering news analysis or opinion, especially on politics, via TV, radio, or print; from Sanskrit paṇḍita, learned man. Distinct from journalists by license to opine; accuracy tests, punditocracy critiques, and the Nate Silver dispute mark the field.

Pune (पुणे)

Pune (पुणे), also called Poona, is Maharashtra's second-largest city after Mumbai, at the Mula-Mutha river confluence. Known as the Oxford of the East and cultural capital of Maharashtra, it is an auto, IT, and education hub with an expanding metro.

Pune Airport (पुणे आंतरराष्ट्रीय विमानतळ)

Pune Airport, also known as Pune International Airport and Lohegaon Airport, serves Pune, Maharashtra, India, sharing its runway with the Indian Air Force's Lohegaon Air Base.

Pune district

Pune district (पुणे जिल्हा) is Maharashtra's second largest district, 15,643 sq km around Pune city, the 'Oxford of the East'; 14 tehsils, two municipal corporations, Sahyadri-to-Deccan geography, Maratha and Peshwa history.

Pune Division

Pune Division, one of six administrative divisions of Maharashtra, comprises the districts of Pune, Satara, Sangli, Solapur, and Kolhapur, headquartered at Pune city; area 57,255 sq km, 2011 population 23.449 million.