61,984 articles
Pochaiv Lavra
Pochaiv Lavra is a working Orthodox men's monastery in Pochaiv, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1597 and known for the Pochaiv Icon of the Mother of God.
Pocheon IPP power station
The Pocheon IPP power station (포천천연C/C) is an LNG-fired combined-cycle power station in Pocheon, South Korea, developed by Daewoo E&C with two units using Mitsubishi 501J turbines for over 60% efficiency.
Pocheon power station
Pocheon power station (포천복합화력발전소) is a 1,560 MW LNG combined-cycle power plant in Pocheon, South Korea, whose two 780 MW units began commercial operation in 2014.
Pocket bike
A pocket bike, also called a mini moto, is a small motorcycle replicating a full-size racing bike at roughly one-quarter scale, for pavement and track use.
Pocket pistol
A pocket pistol is a pistol small enough to carry in a pocket, common from the late 17th to the late 19th century and still used for concealed carry.
Pocket watch
A pocket watch, or fob watch, is a portable timepiece carried in a pocket, the dominant form of personal timekeeping from the 1500s until World War I.
Pocketpair
Pocketpair, Inc. (株式会社ポケットペア) is a Japanese independent video game developer in Shinagawa, Tokyo, founded in 2015 by CEO Takuro Mizobe and known for Palworld and Craftopia.
PocketQube
A PocketQube is a standardized picosatellite format of 5 cm cubes weighing at most 250 g, proposed in 2009 by Robert Twiggs at Morehead State University.
Poclain Hydraulics
Poclain Hydraulics is a French, family-owned manufacturer of high-torque radial piston motors, pumps, and valves for construction, agricultural, and mining machinery, created in 1976 and independent since 1985.
Poco (smartphone brand)
Poco, stylized POCO, is a smartphone brand created by Xiaomi in 2018 to sell high-performance phones at low prices, spun off as an independent company in 2020.
Podium
A podium is an architectural base: in classical usage the masonry platform under a temple, in modern usage the lower storeys of a tower set apart by form or use.
Podman
Podman is a daemonless, open source, Linux-native tool for running OCI containers, offering a Docker-compatible command line and a rootless mode that runs containers as a non-privileged user.
Poe
Poe, short for Platform for Open Exploration, is a Quora-made AI chat app launched in 2023 that bundles many chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, behind one subscription.
Poenari Castle
Poenari Castle, also known as Poenari Citadel, is a ruined medieval fortress in Argeș County, Romania, built in the 14th century and expanded by Vlad the Impaler.
Poet Biorefining – Emmetsburg
POET Biorefining – Emmetsburg is a dry-mill corn ethanol plant near Emmetsburg, Iowa, producing 50 million gallons a year and co-located with Project LIBERTY, a cellulosic ethanol joint venture of POET and DSM.
Pogo oscillation
Pogo oscillation, also called pogo instability or pogo effect, is a self-excited longitudinal vibration of liquid-propellant launch vehicles, first observed on Titan II flights in 1962.
Pogo pin
A pogo pin, also known as a spring-loaded contact or spring probe, is a spring-loaded electrical pin used in circuit-board testing, charging docks, and battery contacts.
Pohokura Oil and Gas Field
The Pohokura Oil and Gas Field is an offshore gas-condensate field in New Zealand's Taranaki Basin, producing since 2006 and operated by OMV New Zealand (74%), with Todd Energy holding 26%.
Point (typography)
The point, also called the typographic point, is the basic unit for stating font size, defined digitally as exactly 1/72 of an inch; 12 points make a pica.
Point absorber
A point absorber is a buoy-like wave energy converter, small relative to the wavelength, that captures energy from waves and is the most common wave energy converter type.
Point Arguello
Point Arguello is a coastal site near Lompoc, California, that served from 1958 to 1964 as the Naval Missile Facility, the main launch complex of the Navy's Pacific Missile Range.
Point Beach nuclear power plant
Point Beach Nuclear Plant is a two-unit nuclear power plant on Lake Michigan near Two Rivers, Wisconsin, the state's only operating nuclear plant, licensed to run into the 2050s.
Point cloud
A point cloud, or point cloud data, is a large set of 3D points representing object or terrain surfaces, typically produced by lidar or derived from overlapping photographs.
Point Cloud Library
The Point Cloud Library (PCL) is an open-source C++ library for 2D/3D image and point cloud processing, introduced by Radu Bogdan Rusu and Steve Cousins of Willow Garage in 2011.
Point cloud segmentation
Point cloud segmentation is the task of labeling every point in a 3D LiDAR scan, a core perception step for autonomous driving, robotics, and mapping.
Point coordination function
The point coordination function (PCF) is an optional IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN access method in which the access point polls stations to transmit, designed for voice and video but rarely implemented commercially.
Point foot
A point foot is a robot foot modeled as contact at a single point with no actuation, making legged robots underactuated and standard for most quadrupeds.
Point in polygon
The point in polygon (PIP) problem asks whether a query point lies inside, outside, or on the boundary of a polygon, a basic operation in computational geometry.
Point interpolation method
The point interpolation method (PIM) is a meshless numerical method for solving partial differential equations of computational mechanics, introduced by G. R. Liu and Y. T. Gu in 2001.
Point kinetics equations
The point kinetics equations are a pair of coupled differential equations that model changes in a nuclear reactor's neutron population, treating the core as a single point.