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Plaza Hotel

The Plaza Hotel is a landmarked luxury hotel at 768 Fifth Avenue beside Central Park in Manhattan, opened in 1907 and designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh in the French Renaissance style.

PLDT

PLDT Inc., formerly the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, is the Philippines' largest integrated telecommunications company, offering fixed line, wireless, and broadband services through Smart Communications and other subsidiaries.

Pleasant Prairie Power Plant

The Pleasant Prairie Power Plant was a 1,233 MW coal-fired power station in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, We Energies' largest generating plant, which ran from 1980 until its retirement in 2018.

Pleasants power station

Pleasants power station is a coal-fired power plant on the Ohio River at Willow Island, Pleasants County, West Virginia, with two units in service in 1979 and 1980.

Please Call Me

Please Call Me is a free Vodacom call-back service, launched in March 2001, letting South African users without airtime send a message asking someone to call them back.

Pleasing (brand)

Pleasing is a beauty and lifestyle brand founded by British singer Harry Styles and launched in November 2021 with nail polishes and skin-care products sold direct to consumers.

Pleated pneumatic artificial muscle

The pleated pneumatic artificial muscle is a contractile pneumatic actuator whose folded membrane unfolds on inflation to pull its load, invented by Frank Daerden and Dirk Lefeber in 1999.

Plenum (architecture)

A plenum is an enclosed, unoccupiable cavity in a building, such as above a suspended ceiling, that moves air as part of the HVAC air distribution system.

Pleroma (software)

Pleroma is a free and open-source federated microblogging server written in Elixir, compatible with Mastodon, first released in 2019, and lightweight enough for a Raspberry Pi.

Plesetsk Cosmodrome

Plesetsk Cosmodrome (космодром Плесецк) is a Russian military spaceport in Arkhangelsk Oblast, the northernmost launch site in the world, first used for orbital launches in 1966.

Plesetsk Cosmodrome (Космодром Плесецк)

Plesetsk Cosmodrome, also known as Plesetsk Space Center, is a Russian military spaceport in the Arkhangelsk region, founded in 1957 as the Soviet Union's first operational ICBM base.

Plethysmograph

A plethysmograph is an instrument that measures changes in the volume of an object or body part, most often to track blood or air volume in medical testing.

Plex (software)

Plex is a media platform whose server app organizes personal movies, TV shows, music, and photos into libraries and streams them to apps on other devices.

PLEXIL

PLEXIL (Plan Execution Interchange Language) is an open-source language developed by NASA and Carnegie Mellon University for representing and executing automation plans on spacecraft, robots, and unmanned vehicles.

Plexus (company)

Plexus is an American electronics manufacturing services company headquartered in Neenah, Wisconsin, founded in 1979, which designs and manufactures complex products for regulated markets such as aerospace, defense, and healthcare.

Ploom

Ploom is a heated tobacco device brand owned by Japan Tobacco, first sold online in Japan in December 2013 and later expanded to devices like Ploom X and Ploom AURA.

PlotJuggler

PlotJuggler is a free, open-source desktop application for visualizing time-series data from log files and live streams with a drag-and-drop interface, widely used in robotics.

Plotter

A plotter is a computer output device that produces drawings by moving a pen across paper under computer control, traditionally used for precise vector graphics such as maps, plans, and blueprints.

Plough

A plough (plow in North American usage) is an agricultural implement drawn through the soil to cut, lift, and turn over a furrow, burying weeds before sowing.

Plover Cove Reservoir (船湾淡水湖)

Plover Cove Reservoir (船湾淡水湖) is an impounding reservoir in northeastern Hong Kong, completed in 1968 as the world's first reservoir built in the sea and Hong Kong's second largest.

PLTGU (Amman power plant)

PLTGU, formally Batu Hijau CCPP-1, is a 450 MW LNG-fired captive power station owned by Amman Mineral at the Batu Hijau mine in West Sumbawa, Indonesia, replacing coal-fired power.

PLTGU Jawa-1 power station

PLTGU Jawa-1 (Pembangkit Listrik Tenaga Gas Uap Jawa-1) is a 1,760 MW LNG-fired combined-cycle power station in Cilamaya, West Java, Indonesia, the largest in the country, operating since 2024.

Plug & Charge

Plug & Charge is an authentication method for electric vehicle charging, defined in ISO 15118, that starts and bills a session automatically when the connector is plugged in.

Plug and abandonment

Plug and abandonment (P&A) is the permanent sealing of a well no longer viable for production, using cement or mechanical plugs to stop reservoir fluids contaminating aquifers.

Plug and play

Plug and play (PnP) is a set of hardware and software specifications that lets computers detect devices, match drivers, and assign resources automatically, introduced by Intel, Compaq, and Microsoft in 1992.

Plug and Play Tech Center

Plug and Play Tech Center is a Silicon Valley startup accelerator, corporate innovation platform, and venture investor founded by Saeed Amidi in Sunnyvale, California, in 2006.

Plug nozzle

A plug nozzle, also called an aerospike, is a rocket nozzle in which exhaust expands on the outside of a central plug, giving altitude compensation.

Plug Power

Plug Power is an American hydrogen energy company headquartered in Latham, New York, best known for fuel cells that replace batteries in warehouse forklifts for Walmart and Amazon.

Plug-in (computing)

A plug-in, also known as an add-in, is a software component that adds a specific capability to a host application through a well-defined interface, letting third parties extend it without source-code access.

Plug-in hybrid

A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) is a hybrid car whose battery can be recharged from an outlet and runs on electricity before switching to its gasoline engine.