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Pontiac Sunbird
The Pontiac Sunbird is a compact car Pontiac manufactured over three generations from 1976 to 1994, first rear-wheel drive, then front-wheel drive, before the Sunfire replaced it.
Pontiac Sunfire
The Pontiac Sunfire is a compact car built by Pontiac from the 1995 through the 2005 model year, replacing the Sunbird and sharing its platform with the Chevrolet Cavalier.
Pontiac Tempest
The Pontiac Tempest was a Pontiac model sold from 1961 to 1970, beginning as a compact with a distinctive rope-drive drivetrain and ending as the entry model of the A-body line that produced the GTO.
Pontiac Trans Sport
The Pontiac Trans Sport was a front-wheel-drive minivan built by General Motors from 1990 to 1998, known for its 'Dustbuster' styling and renamed Pontiac Montana in 1999.
Pontiac V8 engine
The Pontiac V8 engine was a family of V8 engines built by General Motors' Pontiac division from 1955 to 1981, in displacements from 265 to 455 cubic inches.
Pontiac Vibe
The Pontiac Vibe was a compact five-door hatchback wagon produced from 2002 to 2009 by GM and Toyota, and the mechanical twin of the Toyota Matrix.
Pontoon bridge
A pontoon bridge is a bridge carried on floating vessels or pontoons rather than piers, used since antiquity and still standard for military wet-gap crossings.
Pontpierre
Pontpierre: remains of a Roman bridge over the Eyrieux river at Saint-Fortunat-sur-Eyrieux, Ardèche, France; Barrington Atlas 17 D4, Pleiades 167873; also a Moselle commune and other French place names.
Pony car
A pony car is a class of American compact car with a long hood, short rear deck, and optional V8 power, named for the Ford Mustang of 1964 and led by rivals like the Chevrolet Camaro.
Pony Express Oil Pipeline
The Pony Express Oil Pipeline, also called PXP, is a FERC-regulated crude oil pipeline running from Guernsey, Wyoming to Cushing, Oklahoma, opened in October 2014 and owned by Tallgrass Energy.
POODLE
POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption), also known as the POODLE attack, is a man-in-the-middle attack disclosed in 2014 by Google researchers that exploits SSL 3.0 padding to decrypt session cookies.
Pooi See Lee
Pooi See Lee is a materials scientist and President's Chair Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, working on flexible electronics, soft actuators, and stimuli-responsive materials.
Pool of Siloam (בריכת השילוח)
The Pool of Siloam (בריכת השילוח), also called Siloam Pool, is an ancient water reservoir at the southern end of the City of David in Jerusalem.
Pooling layer
A pooling layer is a component of a convolutional neural network that downsamples feature maps by summarizing small local regions, most often with max or average pooling, reducing computation.
Poolside (model family)
Poolside is a family of open-weight code foundation models from the company Poolside, founded in 2023, whose Laguna models are trained with reinforcement learning that rewards code that actually executes.
Poon Lim (潘濂)
Poon Lim (潘濂) was a Chinese merchant seaman who survived 133 days alone on a raft in the South Atlantic in 1942 and 1943, the longest recorded survival adrift at sea.
Pop-up ad
A pop-up ad is an online advertisement in a new browser window over the page being viewed, invented by Ethan Zuckerman at Tripod.com in the mid-1990s.
Pop! OS
Pop!OS, also known as Pop! operating system, is a Linux distribution from the American computer maker System76, built on Ubuntu and first released in 2017 for developers, scientists, and makers.
Popcorn Time
Popcorn Time was a free, open-source desktop application released in 2014 that streamed films and TV shows through BitTorrent behind a Netflix-style interface, closing in 2022.
Pope Francis Balenciaga image
The Pope Francis Balenciaga image is an AI-generated picture of Pope Francis in an oversized white puffer coat, created with Midjourney in March 2023 and seen by tens of millions.
Popemobile
The Popemobile (Papamobile) is a specially adapted vehicle used by the Pope for appearances and journeys, from the 1929 Bianchi to Mercedes-Benz's first fully electric model in 2024.
Poplar River power station
The Poplar River power station is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by SaskPower near Coronach, Saskatchewan, whose two units produce 582 MW of baseload power.
Poppet valve
A poppet valve is a valve with a movable, mushroom-shaped disc that lifts off a machined seat to control flow, standard in internal-combustion engines since early development.
Poppy (robot)
Poppy is an open-source, 3D-printed humanoid robot platform developed from 2012 at Inria's Flowers laboratory in Bordeaux, France, for research and education in robotics and cognitive science.
Population balance model
A population balance model is a mathematical framework describing how populations of particles, droplets, or cells evolve under growth, nucleation, aggregation, and breakage, predicting particle size distributions.
Porcelain insulator
A porcelain insulator is a ceramic electrical insulator made of vitrified porcelain, used to support and isolate overhead power line conductors and substations; wet-process designs dominated high-voltage use after 1896.
Porcelain telegraph insulator
A porcelain telegraph insulator is a ceramic fitting that supports and electrically isolates telegraph wire from poles, first used in 1849 and dominant from around 1915.
Porcelain Tower of Nanjing (大报恩寺琉璃塔)
The Porcelain Tower of Nanjing (大报恩寺琉璃塔) was a nine-story glazed Buddhist pagoda at Nanjing's Great Bao'en Temple, built in the Ming dynasty and destroyed in 1856.
Porch
A porch, also called a sit-out, is a roofed, open-sided shelter projecting from a building's entrance; in America it peaked in the nineteenth century as an outdoor parlor.
Pore network model
A pore network model (PNM) is a simulation method representing the void space of a porous medium as pores connected by throats, used in petroleum engineering.