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Paramotor
A paramotor, also called a powered paraglider, is a backpack engine and propeller worn while flying a paraglider wing, foot-launched from a short strip of grass.
Paramount Hotel explosion
The Paramount Hotel explosion was a natural gas explosion and fire that destroyed part of the Paramount Hotel in downtown Boston on January 28, 1966, killing 11 people.
Paramount Resources
Paramount Resources is a Canadian independent oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, founded by geologist Clay Riddell and public since 1978.
Paramount Tower
Paramount Tower, also called The Paramount, is a 43-story residential high-rise at 680 Mission Street in San Francisco's SoMa district, completed in 2001 as the city's tallest residential building.
Paramount+
Paramount+ is a subscription streaming service owned by Paramount, known for live NFL on CBS, UEFA Champions League, and content from CBS, Showtime, and Nickelodeon.
Paramvir Bahl
Paramvir (Victor) Bahl is an American computer scientist at Microsoft Research, known for pioneering work in wireless networking and indoor localization, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.
Paraná-Uruguayana Gas Pipeline
The Paraná-Uruguayana Gas Pipeline (Gasoducto Paraná-Uruguayana) runs about 437 km from Entre Ríos, Argentina, to Uruguaiana, Brazil, inaugurated in 2000 as Argentina's first gas export pipeline to Brazil.
Parand power station
Parand power station (نیروگاه پرند) is a gas-fired combined-cycle power plant in Parand, southwest of Tehran, Iran, with a capacity of about 1,500 to 1,668 MW.
Parapet
A parapet is a low wall along the edge of a roof, terrace, bridge, balcony, or fortification rampart, protecting people from falling or defenders from enemy fire.
Parasite aircraft
A parasite aircraft is a smaller aircraft carried and launched in flight by a larger mothership, a concept dating from 1931 and revived with air-recovered drones.
Parasolid
Parasolid is a geometric modeling kernel owned by Siemens Digital Industries Software that computes exact 3D solid geometry for CAD products including NX, Solid Edge, SOLIDWORKS, and Onshape.
Parasurameswara Temple
Parasurameswara Temple, also spelled Parsurameswar, is a 7th-century Shiva temple in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, built around 650 CE and known for its lively early Kalinga carvings.
Parata Air
Parata Air, formerly Fly Gangwon, is a South Korean low-cost airline based in Yangyang, relaunched in 2025 by appliance maker Winix as a hybrid carrier.
Parathion
Parathion, also known as ethyl parathion or E 605, is a highly toxic organophosphate insecticide developed by Gerhard Schrader at Bayer in 1944 and banned in the United States by 2003.
ParaView
ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application that lets scientists and engineers explore simulation results interactively in 3D, built on the Visualization Toolkit and first released in 2002.
Paravirtualization
Paravirtualization is a virtualization technique in which the guest operating system is modified to communicate with the hypervisor via hypercalls, avoiding slow hardware emulation for faster performance.
PARC (company)
PARC, the Palo Alto Research Center, is an American research company in Palo Alto, California, founded by Xerox in 1970 and donated to SRI International in 2023.
Parc du Radôme
Parc du Radôme, Pleumeur-Bodou, Brittany: leisure and science park around the Radôme, a 50 m inflatable dome sheltering the 340-tonne PB1 antenna that received the first live transatlantic TV via Telstar on 11 July 1962; hosts Cité des Télécoms, Planétarium de Bretagne, Village Gaulois.
Parc Infantil de Trànsit
Parc Infantil de Trànsit (children's traffic park; parque infantil de tráfico) is a signposted miniature road circuit where children learn road safety by riding bicycles, karts, or scooters; Barcelona's Guàrdia Urbana facility at Montjuïc Castle served 5,805 pupils in 2021-2022, and the Spanish model dates to Madrid in 1962.
Parcel (bundler)
Parcel is a free, open-source web application bundler first released in 2017, distinguished by requiring zero configuration for most projects and developed by Devon Govett.
Parco refinery
The Parco refinery is a 94,000 barrel-per-day oil refinery in Sinclair, Wyoming, opened in 1923 and owned by HF Sinclair since 2022; it serves the Rocky Mountain region.
Pareto front
The Pareto front, also called the Pareto frontier or Pareto curve, is the set of Pareto optimal solutions showing the best tradeoffs among conflicting objectives in multi-objective optimization.
Parex Resources
Parex Resources is a Canadian oil and gas company focused on Colombia, headquartered in Calgary and founded in 2009 as a spin-off from Petro Andina Resources.
Parichha power station
Parichha Thermal Power Station is a coal-fired power station in Jhansi district, Uttar Pradesh, India, run by UPRVUNL with a usable capacity of 920 MW.
Paris Agreement Capital Transition Assessment
The Paris Agreement Capital Transition Assessment (PACTA) is a free, open-source tool introduced in 2018 that measures the alignment of financial portfolios with climate decarbonization scenarios.
Paris Air Show
The Paris Air Show, formally the Salon International de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, is a biennial aerospace, space, and defense trade show at Paris-Le Bourget Airport, founded in 1909.
Paris Gun
The Paris Gun, also called the Kaiser Wilhelm Geschütz, was a German long-range artillery piece built by Krupp that shelled Paris from March to August 1918.
Paris La Défense Arena
Paris La Défense Arena, also known as Arena 92 or U Arena, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Nanterre west of Paris, home of Racing 92 since 2017.
Paris Métro
The Paris Métro, also known as the Métropolitain, is the rapid transit system serving Paris, with its first line opened in 1900 and 14 lines today.
Paris Metro Line 14
Paris Metro Line 14, known as Météor, is a fully automated driverless line of the Paris Métro that opened in 1998 and links Saint-Denis Pleyel to Orly Airport.