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Palm Beach International Airport

Palm Beach International Airport, officially President Donald J. Trump International Airport since 2026, is Palm Beach County, Florida's commercial airport, with the IATA code DJT, formerly PBI.

Palm OS

Palm OS, also known as Garnet OS, is a mobile operating system for PDAs and smartphones, first shipped in 1996 on the Palm Pilot 1000.

Palm Pilot

The Palm Pilot was a shirt-pocket personal digital assistant created by Palm Computing and released in March 1996, combining a monochrome touchscreen, Graffiti handwriting input, and one-button desktop syncing.

Palm Springs Aerial Tramway

The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, in Chino Canyon near Palm Springs, California, opened in 1963 and carries riders up 5,873 feet to Mount San Jacinto in about ten minutes.

Palm, Inc.

Palm, Inc., also known as PalmOne, Inc., was an American handheld-computer maker founded in 1992 by Jeff Hawkins that created the PalmPilot and was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2010.

Palma Cathedral

Palma Cathedral, known in Catalan as La Seu, is the Gothic cathedral of Palma de Mallorca, Spain, built from the 13th century on the site of the city's former great mosque.

Palma de Mallorca Airport

Palma de Mallorca Airport, also known as Son Sant Joan Airport, is Spain's third-busiest airport, located about 8 km east of Palma on the island of Mallorca.

Palmdale Regional Airport

Palmdale Regional Airport (PMD) is a public-use airport in Palmdale, California, sharing its runways with the Air Force's Plant 42, with no scheduled passenger service today.

Palmer Luckey

Palmer Luckey is an American entrepreneur who founded Oculus VR, sold it to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014, and later founded defense company Anduril Industries.

Palmito Oil and Gas Field

Palmito (Campo Palmito) is an onshore natural gas field in the Burgos Basin of Nuevo León, Mexico, operated by Pemex and producing since 1965, peaking in 2012.

Palmprint recognition

Palmprint recognition is a biometric method in computer vision that authenticates people by matching line, texture, and orientation patterns from palm images, used in access control and payment.

Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is an American cybersecurity company in Santa Clara, California, founded by Nir Zuk in 2005 and best known for pioneering the next-generation firewall.

Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station

Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, also known as PVNGS, is a nuclear power plant in Maricopa County, Arizona, west of Phoenix, operated by Arizona Public Service.

Paloma Beamer

Paloma Beamer is an exposure scientist and environmental engineer at the University of Arizona, a 2025 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Palomar Technologies

Palomar Technologies is a privately held American manufacturer of automated die attach, wire bonding, and vacuum reflow systems for microelectronic packaging, based in Carlsbad, California, with origins in Hughes Aircraft.

PALRO

PALRO (パルロ) is a conversational humanoid robot developed by FUJISOFT of Japan, sold from 2010 for elderly care, schools, and homes before being discontinued in 2025.

PALS laser facility

PALS (Prague Asterix Laser System) is a high-power laser research facility in Prague, Czech Republic, whose core instrument is the kJ-class iodine laser Asterix IV, operational since 2000.

Palua Indah power station

Palua Indah power station, commonly the Pulau Indah Power Plant (PIPP), is a 1,200 MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle plant on Pulau Indah in Selangor, Malaysia, in operation since 2025.

Paluel nuclear power plant

The Paluel nuclear power plant is a French nuclear station operated by EDF at Paluel in Seine-Maritime, Normandy, with four 1,300 MWe reactors commissioned between 1984 and 1986.

PAM submachine gun

The PAM submachine gun (Pistola Ametralladora, models PAM-1 and PAM-2) is an Argentine 9mm submachine gun produced from 1954 as a licensed derivative of the American M3A1 Grease Gun.

PAM-6

PAM-6 (Private Astronaut Mission 6), also known as Vast ISS Mission 1, is a planned crewed flight to the International Space Station operated by Vast, launching no earlier than 2027.

Pamban Bridge

The Pamban Bridge is a railway bridge in Tamil Nadu, India, connecting Rameswaram Island with the mainland; the original 1914 bridge was India's first sea bridge.

Pambi Oil Field

Pambi is an offshore oil field in Block 3/05 in the Lower Congo Basin, about 37 km off Angola, discovered in 1990 with first oil in 1995.

Pamela J. VandeVord

Pamela J. VandeVord is an American biomedical engineer who studies blast-induced neurotrauma and hemostatic nanotechnology, receiving a Presidential Early Career Award in 2009 at Wayne State University.

Pamir (ship)

Pamir was a German four-masted steel barque built in 1905 for the Laeisz line's Flying P-Liners, and sank in 1957 in Hurricane Carrie, killing 80 of the 86 aboard.

Pampa Energia

Pampa Energía is an Argentine integrated energy company producing about 9% of the country's gas and 15% of its electricity, and its largest producer of styrenics.

Pampa Sul

Pampa Sul, also known as Usina Termelétrica Pampa Sul, is a 345 MW coal-fired power station in Candiota, Brazil, built by Tractebel and sold to investment funds in 2023.

Pampers

Pampers is an American brand of baby diapers, training pants, and wipes owned by Procter & Gamble. Launched in 1961, it was the first mass-produced disposable diaper.

Pampo Oil Field

The Pampo Oil Field is an offshore field in the Campos Basin off Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, discovered by Petrobras in 1977 and owned by Trident Energy since 2020.

Pamyatno-Sasovskoye Oil Field

Pamyatno-Sasovskoye oil field (Памятно-Сасовское месторождение) is an oil field in Volgograd Region, Russia, discovered in 1992 and operated by LUKOIL subsidiary RITEK, described as the largest in Volgograd Oblast.