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Purwokerto
Purwokerto is a large town in Central Java, Indonesia, the capital of Banyumas Regency at the base of Mount Slamet, and a busy transit point between Jakarta and Yogyakarta.
Pus
Pus, or purulent exudate, is a thick fluid of white blood cells, bacteria, and necrotic debris signaling wound infection; once called laudable pus, its doctrine fell with germ theory and Lister's antiseptic surgery.
Pusa
Pusa (Scopoli, 1771) is a genus of small ice-breeding earless seals, family Phocidae, with three species: ringed seal Pusa hispida, Caspian seal P. caspica, and Baikal seal P. sibirica.
Pusalapadu Mound
Pusalapadu Mound is a prehistoric archaeological site in the village of Pusalapadu, Kurnool district, India, showing occupation from the Neolithic to Megalithic period and interpreted as an ancient bead-making factory.
Pusalar
Pusalar (பூசலர்), also Poosalar, is a Tamil Nayanar Shaiva saint of Tiruninravur who, unable to fund a stone temple, built one for Shiva in his mind.
Pusan Perimeter breakout
The Pusan Perimeter breakout was the US Eighth Army offensive launched on 16 September 1950 from its Pusan defensive line, which collapsed the North Korean army within days.
Pusapati Aditi Vijayalakshmi
Pusapati Aditi Vijayalakshmi Gajapathi Raju is a Telugu Desam Party politician elected in 2024 from the Vizianagaram Assembly constituency, Andhra Pradesh, winning 121,241 votes (64.21%) and defeating YSRCP's Kolagatla Veerabhadra Swamy by 60,609 votes, the highest vote share among women winners that year.
Puscifer
Puscifer, also styled as Maynard James Keenan's third band after Tool and A Perfect Circle, is an American electro-rock collective with Mat Mitchell and Carina Round; debut V Is for Vagina (2007) hit No. 25 on the Billboard 200, and fifth album Normal Isn't arrived in 2026.
Push (2009 film)
Push is a 2009 American science fiction action thriller directed by Paul McGuigan, in which fugitive psychics in Hong Kong plot against Division, a covert US agency.
Push (novel)
Push (1996) is Sapphire's debut novel about Claireece "Precious" Jones, an illiterate, abused Harlem teenager; published by Knopf, it won the Stephen Crane First Fiction award and inspired the 2009 Oscar-winning film Precious.
Push 2 Start
"Push 2 Start" is a 2024 song by South African singer Tyla, released on the deluxe album TYLA +; it peaked at number 23 in the UK.
Push Baby
Push Baby, formerly Rixton, is a British pop duo from Manchester, England, made up of vocalist Jake Roche and multi-instrumentalist Charley Bagnall; they rebranded from the band Rixton in 2019.
Push dagger
A push dagger, also called a push knife or punch knife, is a short dagger with a T-handle gripped inside the fist, blade projecting between the fingers.
Push It (Salt-n-Pepa song)
"Push It" is Salt-N-Pepa's 1987 breakthrough hip hop single, a B-side transformed by the Cameron Paul remix; it hit #14 R&B/#56 Hot 100 in the US, #2 in the UK, and is now central to the duo's copyright fight with UMG.
Push poll
A push poll is a political telemarketing call disguised as an opinion survey, used to deliver negative or false messages about a candidate; condemned by AAPOR, distinguished from legitimate message testing, and regulated in states like Maine.
Push present
Push present (push gift, birthing present): a gift given to a new mother or birthing parent, typically jewelry from her partner, around the time of birth; distinct from baby shower gifts, term first recorded on Fox News in 2003.
Push recovery
Push recovery is the set of control techniques a bipedal robot uses to keep its balance after an external push, through ankle, hip, and stepping motions.
Push technology
Push technology, or server push, is Internet communication in which the server initiates delivery, popularized by PointCast in 1996 and surviving today as web push notifications.
Push Ups (song)
Push Ups (Push Ups (Drop and Give Me 50)) is Drake's 2024 diss track responding to Kendrick Lamar's Like That verse, leaked April 13 and released April 19, 2024 on OVO/Republic, also targeting J. Cole, Rick Ross, the Weeknd, and Metro Boomin.
Push-button telephone
A push-button telephone, or push-button phone, is a telephone set with a keypad replacing the rotary dial, commercialized as Touch-Tone by the Bell System in 1963.
Push-down accounting
Push-down accounting is the practice of recording the acquirer's fair values and goodwill in an acquired company's separate financial statements, optional under US GAAP since 2014 and absent from IFRS.
Push-grasping
Push-grasping is a robotic manipulation technique combining a push across a supporting surface with a prehensile grasp, letting robots pick objects whose position is uncertain or blocked by clutter.
Push-out test
The push-out test is a mechanical test that measures the bond or shear strength of an interface by pushing a component out of its surrounding body.
Push-pull cable
A push-pull cable, sometimes called a Bowden cable, is a flexible control cable that transmits force in both push and pull directions along a curved path.
Push-pull configuration
The push-pull configuration, also called centerline-thrust, is an aircraft engine arrangement with a tractor engine at the nose and a pusher at the tail, avoiding asymmetric yaw on engine failure.
Push-up
Push-up: bodyweight closed kinetic chain calisthenics exercise pressing the body up from a plank; trains pectorals, deltoids, triceps, and core; joint loads vary with hand position, foot position, and speed.
Push–pull output
A push–pull output, also called a push-pull amplifier, is an electronic output stage in which one transistor sources current into the load and another sinks it.
Push–pull strategy
A push–pull strategy is a supply chain and production control approach that splits a value stream at the customer order decoupling point, running forecast-driven push operations upstream and order-driven pull operations downstream.
Push–pull train
A push–pull train is a passenger train with a locomotive at one end and a driving cab at the other, letting the driver control the locomotive remotely from either end.
Push–relabel maximum flow algorithm
The push–relabel maximum flow algorithm, also known as the push–relabel algorithm or preflow push, is a maximum flow algorithm introduced by Goldberg and Tarjan in 1988.