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Panda Temple power station

The Panda Temple power station is a natural gas-fired combined-cycle power station in Temple, Texas, comprising two adjacent plants, Panda Temple I and II, each rated at 758 megawatts.

Pandabuy

Pandabuy was a Chinese shopping agent that bought goods for overseas customers and shipped them internationally, raided by police over counterfeit goods in April 2024.

PandasAI

PandasAI, also written pandas-ai, is an open-source MIT-licensed Python library by Sinaptik-AI that lets users query pandas DataFrames and databases conversationally via LLMs; created by Gabriele Venturi in April 2023, YC W24, CVE-2024-12366 prompt injection noted.

PandaSet

PandaSet is an open-source dataset for autonomous driving research, released in May 2020 by Scale AI with the LiDAR maker Hesai, and free for commercial use.

Pandera

Pandera is an open-source Python dataframe validation library by Niels Bantilan (2018), maintained by Union.ai under MIT license. It validates pandas, Polars, PySpark, Ibis, and PyArrow data against declared schemas with checks and hypothesis tests.

Pandereta Gas Field

Pandereta Gas Field is an onshore natural gas field in the Lower Magdalena Valley Basin of northwestern Colombia, discovered in 2017 and operated by Canacol Energy.

Pandion Energy

Pandion Energy is a Norwegian independent oil and gas company established in November 2016 through a management buyout of Tullow Oil Norge, backed by Kerogen Capital and headquartered in Oslo.

Pandora (jewelry)

Pandora, also known as Pandora A/S, is a Danish jewelry company founded in Copenhagen in 1982 and best known for its charm bracelets, the core of its business.

Panduit

Panduit is a privately held American manufacturer of electrical and network infrastructure products, headquartered in Tinley Park, Illinois, and founded by Jack E. Caveney Sr. in 1955.

Panel truck

A panel truck is a small light-duty commercial vehicle with a fully enclosed, windowless body for delivering goods, common from 1928 until replaced by cargo vans.

Panel van

A panel van, also known as a blind van, is a light commercial vehicle for carrying goods, with solid panels where passenger vehicles have side and rear windows.

Panelling

Panelling (paneling in US spelling), also called boiserie or wainscoting, is a wall covering traditionally of interlocking wood, begun in antiquity to insulate stone rooms.

Panerai

Panerai, also known as Officine Panerai, is a luxury watch manufacturer founded in Florence in 1860, known for large cushion-cased dive watches developed for the Royal Italian Navy.

Panganamala Ramana Kumar

Panganamala Ramana Kumar is a control and communication-networks engineer, Regents Professor at Texas A&M University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007, whose scheduling policy has run an IBM wafer fab since 2005.

Pangpangta Coal Mine

Pangpangta Coal Mine (庞庞塔煤矿) is a large underground bituminous coal mine in Linxian County, Lüliang, Shanxi, China, operated by Huozhou Coal Power and designed for 10 million tonnes annually.

Pangram (AI detector)

Pangram, also known as Pangram.com, is an AI-generated text detector developed by Pangram Labs, a New York start-up co-founded in 2023 by Max Spero, that classifies writing as human, AI, or mixed.

Pangu (盘古) (model family)

Pangu (盘古) is a family of large language models developed by Huawei's Noah's Ark Lab, first released in April 2021 and focused on Chinese-language enterprise applications.

Panguna mine

The Panguna mine was a large open-cut copper and gold mine in central Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, operated by Bougainville Copper Limited from 1972 until 1989.

Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line

Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line is an American interstate natural gas pipeline company founded in 1929, moving gas from the Anadarko Basin to the Midwest and owned by Energy Transfer.

Panhard

Panhard, formally Panhard et Levassor, was a French vehicle manufacturer founded in Paris in 1867 that built the world's first series-produced gasoline cars from 1891.

Panhard AML

The Panhard AML is a French four-wheeled 4x4 light armored car produced from 1960, armed with a 60 mm mortar or 90 mm gun, and exported to dozens of countries.

Panigaglia LNG Terminal

The Panigaglia LNG Terminal is an onshore LNG regasification plant in the Gulf of La Spezia, Liguria, and the first LNG import terminal built in Italy.

Panipat power station

Panipat power station, also known as Panipat Thermal Power Station, is a 710 MW coal-fired power station at Assan Kalan in Panipat district, Haryana, India, established in 1979.

Panj Takht (ਪੰਜ ਤਖ਼ਤ)

The Panj Takht (ਪੰਜ ਤਖ਼ਤ), the Five Thrones, are the five gurdwaras recognized as the supreme seats of Sikh religious authority, issuing binding edicts called hukamnamas.

Panjiang Puding power station

Panjiang Puding power station (盘江普定电厂) is a 1,320 MW coal-fired power station in Puding County, Guizhou, China, with two 660 MW ultra-supercritical units that entered service in 2024 and 2025.

Panjin–Jinzhou Oil Pipeline

The Panjin–Jinzhou Oil Pipeline is a set of three parallel pipelines in Liaoning, China, carrying crude oil, gasoline, and diesel between Jinzhou Port and Panjin.

Panlong hydroelectric plant

The Panlong hydroelectric plant, also known as the Panlong pumped storage power station, is a 1.2 GW plant in Qijiang District, Chongqing, first commissioned in December 2023.

Pannier

A pannier is a bag or rigid case carried on either side of a bicycle or motorcycle, holding cargo low and to the sides rather than on the rider's back.

Panoptic segmentation

Panoptic segmentation is a computer vision task combining semantic and instance segmentation, proposed by Kirillov and colleagues at Facebook AI Research in 2018, with the panoptic quality metric.

Panoramic imaging

Panoramic imaging is an imaging method capturing fields of view from 100 degrees to a full 360 degrees, using wide-angle optics, rotating cameras, or multi-image stitching.