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Plum Brook Station
Plum Brook Station, renamed the Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility in 2020, is NASA Glenn's 6,400-acre test campus in Sandusky, Ohio, with the world's largest vacuum chamber.
Plumber
A plumber is a tradesperson who installs, maintains, and repairs piping systems that carry water, gas, and waste. Most learn the trade through a 4- or 5-year paid apprenticeship.
Plumbing
Plumbing is the work or business of installing pipes, fixtures, and apparatus in buildings for bringing in water supply and removing liquid and water-borne wastes.
Plunge pool
A plunge pool is a basin that receives a free-falling jet from a dam spillway or outlet and dissipates its energy, protecting the riverbed from scour.
Pluribus
Pluribus is an AI poker program by Carnegie Mellon's Tuomas Sandholm and Noam Brown with Facebook AI that beat professionals in six-player no-limit Texas hold'em in 2019.
Pluribus Networks
Pluribus Networks was an American networking company founded in 2010 that developed the Linux-based Netvisor ONE operating system and controllerless software-defined networking for data center switches.
Plus Power
Plus Power is a privately held American company that develops, owns, and operates standalone utility-scale battery storage, founded in 2018 by Brandon Keefe and Alex Fraenkel.
Plusnet
Plusnet, also known as Force9, is a British internet service provider based in Sheffield, Yorkshire, founded in 1997 and now operating as the value brand of BT Group.
Pluto LNG Terminal
Pluto LNG Terminal is a Woodside-operated liquefied natural gas plant on the Burrup Peninsula, Western Australia, producing 4.9 million tonnes of LNG a year since 2012.
Plutonio Oil Field
Plutonio is a deepwater oil field in Block 18 offshore Angola, about 300 km northwest of Luanda, discovered in 1999 and producing since 2007 through the FPSO Greater Plutonio.
Plutonium disposition
Plutonium disposition is the conversion of surplus weapons-grade and civil plutonium into forms hard to reuse in weapons, by reactor fuel, immobilization, or dilution and disposal.
Plutonium pit
A plutonium pit is the spherical plutonium core at the center of a thermonuclear weapon, serving as the first-stage fission trigger that detonates its fusion reaction.
Pluvial flooding
Pluvial flooding, also called surface water flooding, happens when rainfall exceeds the infiltration capacity of soil or the capacity of drainage systems, producing overland flow and ponding.
PLY (file format)
PLY, also called the Stanford Triangle Format, is a file format for storing 3D polygonal models and point clouds, developed in the mid-1990s at Stanford University.
Plymouth (automobile)
Plymouth was an American automobile marque of the Chrysler Corporation from 1928 to 2001, its low-priced entry-level make, known for the Barracuda, Road Runner, and Voyager minivan.
Plymouth Barracuda
The Plymouth Barracuda, or 'Cuda, is a two-door pony car built by Plymouth from 1964 to 1974, beating the Ford Mustang to market by 16 days.
Plymouth Belvedere
The Plymouth Belvedere was an automobile sold by Chrysler's Plymouth division from 1954 to 1970, beginning as a full-size flagship and ending as a mid-size car.
Plymouth Caravelle
The Plymouth Caravelle was a mid-size Plymouth sedan, a rebadged Dodge 600 sold in Canada from 1983 and in the United States from 1985 to 1988.
Plymouth Duster
The Plymouth Duster was a two-door fastback coupe built by Chrysler's Plymouth division on the Valiant compact platform from 1970 to 1976, with 1,332,846 built and an available 340 V-8.
Plymouth Fury
The Plymouth Fury was a Chrysler automobile introduced in 1956 as a performance version of the Belvedere, later a full-size line and a common police car.
Plymouth GTX
The Plymouth GTX was an American muscle car built by Plymouth from 1967 through 1971 and marketed as a gentleman's muscle car with a standard 440 V8.
Plymouth Laser
The Plymouth Laser was a compact sports coupe sold by Chrysler's Plymouth division from 1990 to 1994, a sibling of the Mitsubishi Eclipse and Eagle Talon.
Plymouth Prowler
The Plymouth Prowler, sold as the Chrysler Prowler after 2000, is a retro-styled two-seat hot rod roadster that Chrysler built from 1997 to 2002, inspired by 1940s and 1950s hot rods.
Plymouth Reliant
The Plymouth Reliant was a front-wheel-drive compact car built by Chrysler for the 1981 through 1989 model years as the Plymouth-brand version of the original K-car.
Plymouth Road Runner
The Plymouth Road Runner was a low-priced American muscle car built by Plymouth from 1968 to 1980, named for the Warner Bros. cartoon character and named Motor Trend's 1969 Car of the Year.
Plymouth Satellite
The Plymouth Satellite was a mid-size automobile sold by Chrysler's Plymouth division from 1965 to 1974, introduced as the top trim level of the B-body Belvedere line.
Plymouth Superbird
The Plymouth Superbird, or Plymouth Roadrunner Superbird, is a limited-production high-performance version of the 1970 Plymouth Road Runner, with a pointed nose cone and tall rear wing built for NASCAR.
Plymouth Voyager
The Plymouth Voyager is a front-wheel-drive minivan Plymouth built from 1984 to 2000; launched as Chrysler's first minivan, it and the Dodge Caravan helped establish the minivan market.
Plywood
Plywood is an engineered wood panel of thin veneer layers glued under heat and pressure with alternating grain, giving strength, stability, and a high strength-to-weight ratio.
PLZ-05
The PLZ-05, also known as the Type 05, is a Chinese tracked 155 mm self-propelled howitzer with an automatic loader, serving the People's Liberation Army.