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Piaggio Ape
The Piaggio Ape, Italian for "bee", is a three-wheeled light commercial vehicle built by Piaggio in Italy since the late 1940s to move goods cheaply in post-war Italy.
Piaggio P.180 Avanti
The Piaggio P.180 Avanti, also known as the Piaggio Avanti, is an Italian three-lifting-surface business aircraft with pusher turboprops, first flown in 1986 and still in production.
PIANC
PIANC, the World Association for Waterborne Transport Infrastructure, is a non-political, nonprofit association founded in Brussels in 1885 that publishes technical reports on ports and waterways.
Piano Software
Piano Software is a software company selling a subscription, analytics, and customer-data platform used by publishers like the BBC and Le Monde to run paywalls and manage subscribers.
PIAP
PIAP, formally the Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements, is a Polish research institute in Warsaw, founded in 1965, known for mobile robots for explosive ordnance disposal and reconnaissance.
Piasecki Aircraft
Piasecki Aircraft Corporation is an American research and development company founded in 1955 by helicopter pioneer Frank Piasecki, specializing in experimental rotorcraft and unmanned air vehicles.
Piasecki H-21
The Piasecki H-21 Shawnee, nicknamed the "Flying Banana" for its kinked fuselage, was an American tandem-rotor transport helicopter built by Piasecki and Vertol, serving in Arctic rescue, Algeria, and Vietnam.
Piasecki Helicopter
Piasecki Helicopter, formally the Piasecki Helicopter Corporation and later Vertol Aircraft, was an American manufacturer founded by Frank Piasecki in 1940, known for tandem-rotor helicopters.
Piasecki X-49 SpeedHawk
The Piasecki X-49 SpeedHawk, designated X-49A, was an American experimental high-speed compound helicopter built by Piasecki Aircraft from a Sikorsky YSH-60F Seahawk, first flown in 2007.
PIAT
The PIAT (Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank) was a British and Commonwealth shoulder-fired anti-tank weapon of the Second World War, replacing the Boys rifle as the infantry's answer to German armor.
Pibit.AI
Pibit.AI is an insurtech startup founded in 2020 by Akash Agarwal and headquartered in South San Francisco, California, whose CURE platform automates underwriting for commercial property and casualty insurers.
PIC microcontrollers
PIC microcontrollers, also called PICmicro or Microchip PIC, are a family of microcontrollers developed by General Instrument in the 1970s and made by Microchip since 1989.
Picanol
Picanol is a Belgian manufacturer of shuttleless air-jet and rapier weaving machines based in Ieper, Belgium, founded in 1936, with more than 400,000 machines produced.
Picasa
Picasa, also known as Picasa Web Albums, was a free image organizer and photo editor founded in 2001, acquired by Google in 2004, and retired in 2016 in favor of Google Photos; final version 3.9.
Picatinny Arsenal
Picatinny Arsenal is a U.S. Army installation in Rockaway Township, New Jersey, leading research, development, and acquisition of guns and ammunition for all U.S. military branches.
Picatinny rail
The Picatinny rail, also known as the STANAG rail, is the standardized mounting rail for scopes, lights, and lasers on firearms, defined by MIL-STD-1913 in 1995.
Piccadilly
Piccadilly, also known as Piccadilly, London, is a major street in Westminster running from Piccadilly Circus to Hyde Park Corner, home to The Ritz and the Royal Academy of Arts.
Piccadilly Circus
Piccadilly Circus is a road junction and public space in London's West End, created in 1819 and known for its illuminated advertising signs and Eros fountain.
Piccadilly line
The Piccadilly line is a deep-level line of the London Underground, running from Cockfosters to Heathrow Airport and Uxbridge. It opened in 1906 and serves 53 stations.
Pichilingue LNG Terminal
The Pichilingue LNG Terminal, also called the La Paz Terminal, is a small LNG import terminal near La Paz, Mexico, opened by New Fortress Energy in July 2021.
Pick and place
Pick and place is a robotic operation in which a machine grasps an object at one location, moves it, and releases it at another, repeating the cycle at speed.
Pick face
A pick face is a warehouse storage location from which pickers directly draw items to fill orders, sitting in the forward area and periodically refilled from bulk reserve storage.
Pick-by-vision
Pick-by-vision is an order picking method in which warehouse pickers wear data glasses showing article, quantity, and storage location, a term coined by researchers at the Technical University of Munich.
Pick–Sloan Missouri Basin Program
The Pick–Sloan Missouri Basin Program, authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1944, merged the Army's Pick Plan and the Bureau of Reclamation's Sloan Plan for the Missouri River basin.
Pickaxe
A pickaxe is a T-shaped hand tool with a heavy steel head mounted crosswise on a long handle, used to break rock, hard soil, and compacted gravel.
Pickering nuclear power plant
The Pickering Nuclear Generating Station is an eight-reactor CANDU plant in Pickering, Ontario, on Lake Ontario, Ontario's first commercial nuclear plant; its B units began refurbishment in September 2026.
Pickfair
Pickfair was the Beverly Hills, California estate of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, a redesigned hunting lodge said to be the nation's second-most famous residence.
Pickit3D
Pickit3D, also known as Pickit, is a Belgian company founded in 2016 that sells plug-and-play 3D vision systems letting industrial robots detect and pick parts.
Pickling (metal)
Pickling is a metal surface treatment in which metal is immersed in acid, called pickle liquor, to remove oxide scale and rust; in steel production it prepares hot-rolled steel for cold rolling, galvanizing, or coating.
Pickup truck
A pickup truck, or pickup, is a light-duty truck with an enclosed passenger cab and an open cargo bed at the rear, first sold factory-built by Ford in 1925.