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PlĂĽcker formula In mathematics, a PlĂĽcker formula is one of an extensive family of counting formulae, of a type first developed in the 1830s by Julius PlĂĽcker, that relate the extrinsic geometry of algebraic curves in projective space to intrinsic invariants such as the genus. They can be applied in either direction, to calculate the genus for example from some geometrical numbers.
Plácido Polanco Plácido Enrique Polanco (pronounced: ) (born October 10, 1975) is a Dominican Major League Baseball player who has played for the Philadelphia Phillies, St Louis Cardinals and Detroit Tigers. He usually plays second base and occasionally shortstop and third base.
Pláhnetan Pláhnetan was an Icelandic rock band formed in the spring of 1993 after singer Stefán Hilmarsson, Ingólfur Guðjónsson and Sigurður Gröndal wrote several songs for Stefán’s forthcoming solo album, but the group got along so well that they decided to continue composing and even form a new band with that material under Stefán’s management.
Plön Plön is the district seat of the Plön district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and has about 13,000 inhabitants. It lies right on Schleswig-Holstein's biggest lake, the Großer Plöner See, as well as on several smaller lakes, touching the town on virtually all sides.
Plön (district) Plön is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the districts of Ostholstein and Segeberg, the city of Neumünster, the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, the city of Kiel and the Baltic Sea.
Plea In legal terminology, a plea is simply an answer to a claim made by someone in a civil or criminal case under common law using the adversary system. Colloquially, a plea has come to mean the assertion by a criminal defendant, at arraignment or otherwise in response to a criminal charge, whether he is guilty or not guilty.
Plea bargain A plea bargain (also plea agreement or copping a plea) is an agreement in a criminal case in which a prosecutor and a defendant arrange to settle the case against the defendant. The defendant agrees to plead guilty or no contest (and often allocute) in exchange for some agreement from the prosecutor as to the punishment.
Plea colloquy A plea colloquy, in United States criminal procedure, is a conversation between a judge and a criminal defendant who has been sworn under oath, which must occur when the defendant enters a guilty plea in court in order for the plea to be valid. The United States Supreme Court has crafted a doctrine which requires the court to engage in a specific line of inquiry.
Plea for Peace (album) Plea for Peace is the final, posthumous 7" EP from the ska punk band Operation Ivy. It was released in 1992, three years after the band broke up, and contained four songs not released on their 27-song reissue of Energy.
Plea for Peace Foundation The Plea for Peace Foundation was founded in 1999 by musician and founder of Asian Man Records, Mike Park. The Plea for Peace Foundations is a 501C3 Non-Profit Organisation based in San Jose, California, in the United States.
Pleading In the law, a pleading is one of the papers filed with a court in a civil action, such as a complaint, a demurrer, or an answer. A complaint is the first pleading filed by a plaintiff which initiates a lawsuit.
Pleading the belly Pleading the belly was a process available at British Common Law, which permitted women pregnant with late stage fetuses to receive a reprieve of their death sentences until delivery. The plea was available at least as early as 1387 and was eventually rendered obsolete by the Sentence of Death (Expectant Mothers) Act of 1931.
Pleasance Pleasance is a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, which is the location for one of the largest and most popular venue at the Edinburgh Fringe, hosting mainly comedy shows. In 2006 it consisted of two multiplex venues: the Pleasance Courtyard (situated on the Pleasance), and the Pleasance Dome (situated on Bristo Square).
Pleasance Dome The second series of venues under the Pleasance Theatre branch in Edinburgh, used for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Pleasance Dome attracts comedians, actors and musicians to its spaces, used for the rest of the year by Edinburgh University.
Pleasant Bay, Nova Scotia Pleasant Bay is a community on the western coast of Cape Breton Island on the shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Inverness County , Nova Scotia on the Cabot Trail 141 kilometers from Port Hawkesbury .
Pleasant Corners, Pennsylvania Pleasant Corners is an unincorporated community located in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania at the intersections of Pennsylvania Route 100 and Pennsylvania Route 309, in the United States. It is part of the Lehigh Valley region of the state.
Pleasant Crump Pleasant Riggs Crump (December 23, 1847-December 31, 1951) was a Confederate soldier, believed by some to be the last living American Civil War veteran who fought for the Confederacy. Although survived by several claimants of questionable status (such as Thomas Riddle, William Lundy, John B.
Pleasant Gerbil The Pleasant Gerbil (scientific name Gerbillus amoenus) is a species of Gerbil that is found mainly in Libya, Egypt, possibly Mauritania to Tunisia. These are a mere 6 cm body length with a brown agouti style coat, white belly and very long tail.
Pleasant Hill, Kentucky Pleasant Hill, Kentucky,, USA, is the site of a Shaker religious community that was active from 1805 to 1910. Following a preservationist effort that began in 1961, the site, now a National Historic Landmark, has become a popular tourist destination.
Pleasant Hills, New South Wales Pleasant Hills is a small village about 34 kilometres West of Henty in the Riverina district of New South Wales, Australia. The village and surrounding area of 7 kilometre radius has a population of approximately 145 people.
Pleasant Island (Alaska) Pleasant Island is the largest island in the Icy Strait between northern Chichagof Island and the mainland of the Alaska Panhandle. It lies southeast of the mainland city of Gustavus and southwest of the mainland community of Excursion Inlet.
Pleasant Lake (Deerfield, New Hampshire) Pleasant Lake is a 494-acre lake located in Rockingham County in central New Hampshire, United States, in the town of Deerfield. The eastern shore of the lake forms the boundary between Deerfield and the town of Northwood.
Pleasant Lake (New London, New Hampshire) Pleasant Lake is a 606-acre lake located in Merrimack County in central New Hampshire, United States, in the town of New London. The village of Elkins is located at the east end of the lake, next to its outlet.
Pleasant Moorman Miller Pleasant Moorman Miller, born in Lynchburg, Virginia, was an American politician that represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives. He moved to Rogersville, Tennessee in 1796, and from Rogersville to Knoxville in 1800.
Pleasant Park Station (OC Transpo) Pleasant Park Transitway Station is a bus stop on Ottawa's Transitway served by OC Transpo buses. It is located in the southeastern Transitway section at Pleasant Park Road (a collector road through Alta Vista) near Riverside Drive.
Pleasant Point, New Zealand Pleasant Point is a small country town in southern Canterbury, New Zealand, some 19km inland from Timaru. A service town for the surrounding farming district, it has a population of 1,222 and one of its main attractions is the heritage railway, the Pleasant Point Museum and Railway, which operates steam locomotives and one of only two Model T Ford railcar replicas in the world.
Pleasant Porter Pleasant Porter (1840-1907), was a respected American Indian statesman and the Principal Chief of the Creek Nation from 1899 until his death. He served with the Confederacy in the 1st Creek Mounted Volunteers, as Superintendent of Schools in the Creek Nation (1870), as commander of the Creek Light Horsemen (1883), and was many times the Creek delegate to the United States Congress.
Pleasant Reed House The Pleasant Reed House was a sidehall shotgun house in Biloxi, Mississippi on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built by Pleasant Reed (1854-1932), a former slave on a Mississippi farm who moved with his family to coastal Biloxi after the American Civil War.
Pleasant Ridge Bridge The Pleasant Ridge Bridge is a bridge in Pungo, Virginia that is frequented by local skateboarders and risk takers. Controversy has surrounded the location since 2005 due to the continuing conflict between the rival gangs that influence the area, the PRB and TBM.
Pleasant Ridge Middle School Pleasant Ridge Middle School is one of eight middle schools operated in the Blue Valley School District, located in Stilwell, Kansas. It is fed into by Cedar Hills Elementary School, Liberty View Elementary School, and Morse Elementary School.
Pleasant Ridge, Cincinnati Pleasant Ridge is a quaint, diverse, mostly gaslight residential neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio with a small business district occupied largely by long-standing, independent businesses. Pleasant Ridge is home to a large concentration of Cincinnati's Irish population and plays host to the regions largest Saint Patrick's Day celebration.
Pleasant River (Androscoggin River) Pleasant River is a relatively short river in Oxford County, Maine in the United States. It is a tributary of the Androscoggin River, which flows east and south to join the Kennebec River in Merrymeeting Bay near the Atlantic Ocean.
Pleasant Street (MBTA station) Pleasant Street Station is an aboveground at-grade station on the Green Line "B" Branch of the MBTA subway system in Boston, Massachusetts. It is located in the median of Commonwealth Avenue, on the western side of its intersection with Henry Agganis Way (on the north side) and Pleasant Street (on the south side, extending into Brookline).
Pleasant Street Incline The Pleasant Street Incline or Pleasant Street Portal was the southern access point for the Tremont Street Subway in Boston, Massachusetts, which later became part of the Green Line (but not until after the incline was closed).
Pleasant Tackitt Pleasant Tackitt (Tackett) (April 22, 1803 – February 7, 1886) (sometime seen as James Pleasant, but there is no official document to support his name was ever James) a 19th century politician, pioneer Methodist minister, stockman, teacher, farmer, Indian fighter and Confederate Officer. Tackitt was a key figure in the history of Arkansas and north Texas, including a state repersenitive of the Arkansas General Assembly.
Pleasant Valley War The Pleasant Valley War (also sometimes called the Tonto Basin War) was an 1886 Arizona range war between two feuding families, the cattle-herding Grahams and the sheep-herding Tewksburys. The feud itself lasted for almost a decade, with its most heated clashes between 1886 and 1887, with the last known killing occurring in 1892.
Pleasant View, Toronto Pleasant View is a neighbourhood in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada that is located in the northern end of the city and bordered by Victoria Park to the East, Sheppard Avenue to the South, Highway 404 to the west and the Apache trail to the north (north of Finch Avenue).
Pleasantville Public Schools The Pleasantville Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through twelfth grade from the City of Pleasantville, in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. The school district is an Abbott District.
Please Don't Eat The Daisies Please Don't Eat the Daisies is a best-selling collection of humorous essays by American humorist and playwright Jean Kerr. The essays do not have a plot or through-storyline, but the book sold so well it was later adapted into a film starring Doris Day and David Niven.
Please Don't Go "Please Don't Go" is a song recorded and released in 1979 on the KC and the Sunshine Band album Do You Wanna Go Party. The song was the band's first love ballad, in which the subject pleads obviously for a second chance.
Please Don't Go Girl "Please Don't Go Girl" is a 1988 ballad single from New Kids On The Block. Written and produced by Maurice Starr, it was the first release from their sophomore album Hangin' Tough, and also became the groups first commercial hit — eventually peaking at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart.
Please Heat This Eventually "Please Heat This Eventually" is a 12" EP from Gold Standard Laboratories and is a collaboration between The Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Quintet and Damo Suzuki of the group CAN. It was written, arranged and directed by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez.
Please Help The Cause Against Loneliness "Please Help The Cause Against Loneliness" is a song by British singer Sandie Shaw and the first single from her 1988 album Hello Angel. Having released a string of hit singles in the 1960s, Shaw had semi-retired from public life in the early 1970s and had released only a few records with minimal publicity since.
Please Send Me Someone to Love "Please Send Me Someone to Love" is a song written and recorded by Percy Mayfield in 1950 on Art Rupe's Specialty Records label. It was on the R&B chart for 27 weeks and reached the number one position.
Please Smile Again "PLEASE SMILE AGAIN" is Namie Amuro's 17th solo single on the avex trax label. Although the single "think of me / no more tears" (2001) was slated to be released in December, it was pushed back until the next year making "PLEASE SMILE AGAIN" the last single to precede her 4th studio album, break the rules (2000).
Please Teach Me English Please Teach Me English (Yeongeo wanjeonjeongbok) is a 2003 South Korean comedy about a young woman who begins English lessons after she is unable to help a belligerent foreigner who comes to her government office.
Please, Don't Say It's Over (Ne-Yo) Later this year, around late November or early December, Shaffer (Ne-Yo) will be releasing the first single off his new, and untitled album. Written by the artist himself, "Please, Don't Say It's Over," will center around a man, who has recently cheated on his girlfriend, with her best friend.
Please, Please "Please, Please" is a song by McFly, which was released as a double A-side single with their cover version of the Queen song "Don't Stop Me Now". It was premiered on Radio One on 7 June 2006.
Pleasing fungus beetle The pleasing fungus beetle (Cypherotylus asperus), is a part of the most diverse and numerous group of insects, the beetles. The pleasing fungus beetle's bright colours and interesting patterns have made them one of the stand outs of the beetle group; however, these insects' natural habits and characteristics are rarely seen by casual bug watchers.
Pleasley Pleasley is a small village in between the nearby towns of Chesterfield and Mansfield, it is 8 km south east of Bolsover, Derbyshire, England and 4 km north west of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. The River Meden which forms the county boundary in this area runs through the village.
Pleasure and Pain Pleasure and Pain is the name of an LP released in 1992 as a vinyl record by Ben Harper and Tom Freund (both previously from the band Thirsty Dog), consisting of 11 predominantly standards-based tracks with no backing recorded at the Cardas studio in California. It led to the signing of Ben Harper to Virgin Records.
Pleasure At Her Majesty's Pleasure At Her Majesty's was the name given to the filmed release of A Poke In The Eye (With A Sharp Stick), the first of the Amnesty International comedy benefit galas. The title is a play on the phrase At Her Majesty's Pleasure (the show was performed at Her Majesty's Theatre, London).
Pleasure Beach Pleasure Beach is a peninsula located off the coast of southeastern Bridgeport, Connecticut, and southwestern Stratford, Connecticut. It is surrounded by water (the Lewis Gut on the north shore, and the Long Island Sound on the south shore.
Pleasure center Pleasure center is the general term for the set of brain structures, predominantly the nucleus accumbens, theorized to produce great pleasure when stimulated electrically. Some references state that the septum pellucidium is generally considered to be the pleasure center while others mention the hypothalamus when referring to pleasure center for intracranial stimulation.
Pleasure Craft Operator Card The Competency of Operators of Pleasure Craft Regulations require operators of pleasure craft, in Canada, fitted with a motor and used for recreational purposes to have proof of competency on board at all times. These requirements are being phased in over ten years.
Pleasure EP Pleasure EP was the first release by rock band Semisonic. It was originally released in 1995 under their original name, Pleasure, and rereleased with bonus tracks following the success of their song "Closing Time" under their Semisonic name.
Pleasure gardens A pleasure gardens is usually a garden that is opened to the public for recreation. They are differentiated from other public amenties by containing entertainments in addition to the planting; for example, concert halls or bandstands, rides, or zoos or menageries.
Pleasure Island Family Theme Park Pleasure Island Family Theme Park is an amusement park in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, England. Built on the site of an old zoo, construction of the park began in the late 1980s by Pleasureworld, a division of RKF.
Pleasure Seekers The Pleasure Seekers was the name of a 1960's-era girls-only garage band from Detroit. Perhaps their most famous song is "What a Way to Die", it was featured in the cult film Blood Orgy of the Leather Girls.
Pleasureland (TV) Pleasureland was a 2003 Channel 4 vibrant and provocative feature-length drama focusing on a group of teenagers in Liverpool who can’t wait to grow up. Written by Helen Blakeman, directed by Brian Percival and produced by the makers of the BB1 espionage series Spooks, Kudos.
Pleather Pleather ("plastic leather") is a slang term for synthetic leather made out of plastic. For some, pleather is a mildy derogatory term, implying that its use is a substitute for genuine animal hide leather to cut costs.
Plebeian Council The Plebeian Council (Latin: concilium plebis) was a political feature of Ancient Rome. Established in 494 BC as a compromise between patricians and plebeians following the rebellion of the plebeian army, the council was a subset of the Comitia Tributa and consisted exclusively of plebeians.
Plebidonax deltoides Plebidonax deltoides, known as pipi in the eastern Australian states, and goolwa cockle in South Australia, is a bivalve mollusc of the family Donacidae, endemic to Australia. It was previously known as Donax deltoides.
Pleckstrin homology domain Pleckstrin homology domain (PH domain) is a protein region of approximately 120 amino acids that can bind Phosphatidylinositol lipids within biological membranes (such as Phosphatidylinositol (3,4,5)-trisphosphate and phosphatidylinositol (4,5)-bisphosphate), and proteins such as the βγ-subunits of heterotrimeric G proteins and protein kinase C. Through these interactions, PH domains plays a role in recruiting proteins that contain them to different membranes, thus targeting them to appropriate cellular compartment or enabling them to interact with other components of the signal transduction pathways.
Plecostomus Plecostomus, pleco, or plec is a general name for a type of freshwater tropical Central and South American fish belonging to the family Loricariidae. Plecos are extremely popular in aquaria for their ability to clean tanks by eating algae growth and are often very good at doing this.
Plectics Plectics is the name that Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Laureate in Physics, has suggested for the research area described by Gell-Mann as "a broad transdisciplinary subject covering aspects of simplicity and complexity as well as the properties of complex adaptive systems, including composite complex adaptive systems consisting of many adaptive agents."
Plectranthus Plectranthus is a genus of warm-climate plants, closely related to Solenostemon, sometimes known as the spurflowers. Several species are grown as ornamental plants, as leaf vegetables, or as root vegetables for their edible tubers.
Plectranthus barbatus Plectranthus barbatus (also called coleus forskohlii, plectranthus forskohlii, and coleus barbatus) is a tropical perennial plant related to the coleus species. It is interesting from a scientific and medicinal standpoint because it produces forskolin.
Plectrum A plectrum is a small flat tool used to pluck or strum a stringed instrument. For acoustic guitars, electric guitars, electric basses, banjos, and other similar instruments, the plectrum (or 'pick') is a separate tool held in the player's hand.
Pledge drive A pledge drive is an extended period of fundraising activities, generally used by public broadcasting stations to increase contributions. The term "pledge" originates from the promise a contributor makes to send in funding at regular intervals for a certain amount of time.
Pledge names Pledge names are a tradition in American college fraternities whereby prospective members who have been invited to join the house (often called pledges) are given a nickname to be referred to during their pledging period. The names are most often selected by the brotherhood just prior to the new member's pledge period.
Pledge of the Tree Pledge of the Tree (Arabic: بيعة الشجزة, transliterated ) or Pledge of Pleasure (Arabic: بيعة الرضوان, transliterated ) was a pledge that was sworn to Prophet Muhammad by his companions right before the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah (6 AH, 628 AD/CE) under a tree to avenge the rumored death of ʻUthmān ibn ʻAffān.
Pledge pin A pledge pin is a common custom of United States fraternities and sororities in which a pin is worn by pledges for the duration of the pledging period, usually during all times not considered dangerous to do so (during sports, etc.).
Pledge to Africa Act The Jean Chrétien Pledge to Africa Act (in full: An Act to amend the Patent Act and the Food and Drugs Act), was a bill introduced as C-9 1n the third session of the 37th Canadian Parliament. It was the first implementation of the TRIPS flexibilities declared in the August 30, 2003, General Council decision.
PleiĂźe The PleiĂźe is a right tributary of the WeiĂźe Elster in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It has its source southwest of Zwickau at Ebersbrunn, then flows through Werdau, Crimmitschau, Altenburg, and other cities in Saxony and ThĂĽringen, before meeting the WeiĂźe Elster in Leipzig.
Pleinair Pleinair (プレネール）is a fictional character who has made appearances in several games in Nippon Ichi's tactical role-playing game series. She is something of a mascot character for the artist and character designer of these games, Takehito Harada.
Pleiotrophin Pleiotrophin or Neurite Growth-promoting Factor 1 (NEGF1), also called Heparin Affin Regulatory Peptide (HARP) or Heparin Binding Growth associated molecule (HB-GAM) is an 18-kDa growth factor that has a high affinity for heparin. It is structurally related to midkine and retinoic acid induced heparin-binding protein.
Pleissnerland Pleissnerland, Pleissenland, or the Imperial Territory of Pleissenland (; ) was part of the Holy Roman Empire. It was named for the PleiĂźe River, and was located in what is now in the German states of Thuringia and Saxony.
Pleistarchus (Antipatrid) Pleistarchus (in Greek Πλεισταρχος; lived 4th century BC) was son of Antipater and brother of Cassander, king of Macedonia. He is first mentioned in the year 313 BC, when he was left by his brother in the command of Chalcis, to make headway against Ptolemy, the general of Antigonus, when Cassander himself was recalled to the defence of Macedonia.
Pleistocene The Pleistocene epoch () on the geologic timescale is the period from 1,808,000 to 11,550 years BP (Before Present). The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek (pleistos "most") and (kainos "new").
Pleistocene megafauna Pleistocene megafauna were the larger species of mammals, birds and reptiles that lived on earth during the Pleistocene Epoch. These animals suffered a massive extinction event as humanity expanded out of Africa and Eurasia, continents that are the only two still to retain some megafauna equivalent to what was lost.
Pleistocene park Pleistocene park in Sakha region in northern Siberia is an attempt initiated by Russian researcher Sergey Zimov to reproduce the ecosystem that flurished during the last ice age, with hopes to back his theory that hunting, and not climate change, destroyed the wildlife.
Plekton In physics, a plekton is a theoretical kind of elementary particle, which obeys a different style of statistics with respect to the interchange of identical particles. That is, it would be neither a boson nor a fermion, but subject to a braid statistics.
Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto La Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto (, abbreviated as PIV) is a monolingual dictionary of the language Esperanto. It was first compiled in 1970 by a large team of Esperanto linguists and specialists under the guidance of Gaston Waringhien and is still published by the Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda.
Plenario Intersindical de Trabajadores - ConvenciĂłn Nacional de Trabajadores The Plenario Intersindical de Trabajadores - ConvenciĂłn Nacional de Trabajadores (PIT-CNT) is a national trade union center in Uruguay. It was founded in 1964 as the ConvenciĂłn Nacional de Trabajadores (CNT), but was dissolved, and 18 council members "disappeared", in the wake of a general strike in 1973.
Plenary power A plenary power or plenary authority is the complete power of a governing body. The concept is also used in legal circles to define complete control in other circumstances, as in plenary authority over public funds, as opposed to limited authority over funds that are encumbered as collateral or by a legal claim.
Plenoptic illumination function The plenoptic illumination function is an idealized function used in computer vision and computer graphics to express the image of a scene from any possible viewing position at any viewing angle at any point in time. It is never actually used in practice, and is more useful in understanding other concepts in vision and graphics.
Plenty Coups Plenty Coups (otherwise known as Aleek-chea-ahoosh) (1848 – 1932) was a Crow chief and visionary leader. He allied Crow with the whites when the war for the West was being fought, because the Sioux and Cheyenne (who were opposing white settlement of the area) were the traditional enemies of the Crow.
Plenty River Plenty river is a tributary of the Yarra River in Victoria, Australia. Originating in the forested slopes of Mount Disappointment, the Plenty River is the source of Melbourne's first major water supply in the form of Yan Yean Reservoir.
Plenty, Saskatchewan Plenty is a small village in western Saskatchewan, Canada, located equa distant between Kindersley Saskatchewan, Bigger, Saskatchewan, Kerrobert,Saskatchewan and Rosetown, Saskatchewan and approximately 150 kilometers southwest of Saskatoon. It has a population of 147 (2001 census).
Plenum cable Plenum cable is cable that is laid in the plenum spaces of buildings. The plenum (pronounced PLEH-nuhm) is the space that is used for air circulation in heating and air conditioning systems, typically between the structural ceiling and the dropped ceiling or under a raised floor.
Pleo Pleo is a robotic dinosaur, made for all ages, designed to emulate the appearance and behavior of a week-old baby Camarasaurus. It was designed by Caleb Chung, the co-creator of the Furby, and manufactured by Ugobe.
Pleocyemata Pleocyemata is a sub-order of decapod crustaceans, erected by Martin Burkenroad in 1963 . Burkenroad's classification replaced the earlier sub-orders of Natantia and Reptantia with the monophyletic groups Dendrobranchiata (prawns) and Pleocyemata.
Pleochroism Pleochroism is an optical phenomenon where due to double refraction of light by a colored gem or crystal, the light is divided into two paths which are polarized at a 90° angle to each other. As the divided light beams follow different paths within the stone and are traveling at different speeds, they may have the result of differential selective absorption, thus when they leave the crystal they have different colors, making the stone seem to be of different colors.
Pleonexia Pleonexia (which originated from the Greek language [is a philsophical concept employed both in the New Testament] and in writings by [[Plato and Aristotle. It roughly corresponds to greed, covetousness, or avarice, and is strictly defined as "the insatiable desire to have what rightfully belongs to others", suggesting what Ritenbaugh describes as "ruthless self-seeking and an arrogant assumption that others and things exist for one's own benefit".
Pleorama The best-known pleorama was a 19th century moving panorama entertainment where the viewers sat in a rocking boat while panoramic views on painted canvas rolled past. The word has sometimes been used for other entertainments or innovations.
Plesiochronous The term Plesiochronous is derived from the Greek plesio, meaning near, and chronos, time, and refers to the fact that plesiochronous systems run in a state where different parts of the system are almost, but not quite perfectly, synchronised.
Plesiochronous difference Plesiochronous difference - In telecommunications, if two digital signals are plesiochronous, their transitions occur at nearly the same rate, with any variation being within preset limits. EXAMPLE: If two networks are working together their clocks may be using two different Primary Reference Clocks (PRC).
Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy The Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH) is a technology used in telecommunications networks to transport large quantities of data over digital transport equipment such as fibre optic and microwave radio systems. The term plesiochronous is derived from Greek plesio, meaning near, and chronos, time, and refers to the fact that PDH networks run in a state where different parts of the network are almost, but not quite perfectly, synchronised.
Plesiomonas shigelloides Plesiomonas shigelloides is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium which has been isolated from freshwater, freshwater fish, and shellfish and from many types of animals including cattle, goats, swine, cats, dogs, monkeys, vultures, snakes, and toads.

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