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Portuguese legislative election, 1991 The Portuguese legislative election of 1991 took place on October 6. The Social Democratic Party, under the lead of Cavaco Silva, won the election easily with an absolute majority for the second consecutive turn, achieving a higher share than in the previous election, losing, however, 13 MPs due to the reduction of the overall number from the original 250 to 230.
Portuguese legislative election, 1995 The Portuguese legislative election of 1995 took place on October 1. The Socialist Party defeated the Social Democratic Party under the lead of AntĂłnio Guterres, elected some months before, but missed the absolute majority by 4 MPs.
Portuguese legislative election, 1999 The Portuguese legislative election of 1999 took place on October 10. The Socialist Party was aiming a second term under the lead of AntĂłnio Guterres, in the end the Socialist Party won the election, but missed what would be an historical absolute majority for the party by only one MP.
Portuguese legislative election, 2002 The Portuguese legislative election of 2002 took place on March 17. These elections were called after the resignation of the former Prime-Minister, AntĂłnio Guterres after a defeat of the Socialist Party in the local election of 2001.
Portuguese legislative election, 2005 The Portuguese legislative election of 2005 took place on February 20. These elections were called after the decision of President Jorge Sampaio on November 30, 2004 to dissolve the Parliament as an answer to the political instability caused by the government led by Pedro Santana Lopes (PSD) in coalition with the PP.
Portuguese local election, 2005 The Portuguese local election of 2005 took place on October 9. The election consisted of three separate elections in the 308 Portuguese municipalities, the election for the Municipal Chambers, whose winner is elected mayor, another election for the Municipal Assembly and a last one for the lower-level Parish Assembly, whose winner is elected parish president.
Portuguese League for Professional Football Portuguese League for Professional Football (LPFP - Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional) is the main organizing entity for professional football (soccer) in Portugal, headquartered in the city of Amadora, Greater Lisbon. LPFP organizes the two major professional football championships of Portugal: the Portuguese Liga, and the Liga de Honra, which are respectively, the first and second top layers in the Portuguese football league system pyramid.
Portuguese Marine Corps The Portuguese Navy Marines, presently named Corpo de Fuzileiros (Fusilier Corps), are a force of about 2000 men organized in a Base, a School, two Naval Infantry Battalions, a Special Actions Detachment, a Naval Police Unit, plus other support units, like dive sappers. They are available for any mission, from humanitarian missions abroad to the defense of the Portuguese coast.
Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Committee Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Committee (in Portuguese: Comité Marxista-Leninista Português) was a communist organization in Portugal. CM-LP was formed in March 1964 by a group led by Francisco Martins Rodrigues.
Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Communist Organization The Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Communist Organization (in Portuguese: Organização Comunista Marxista-Leninista Portuguesa or OCMLP) was a Portuguese far-left political party, founded in 1973 after the merger between two minor communist grouping, the group around the journal O Comunista (split from the Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Committee) and O Grito do Povo (a group based in Northern Portugal). The party achieved some political expression in the last years of the fascist regime of Marcello Caetano, mainly in Paris, among a community of exiled politicians.
Portuguese Maximalist Federation The Portuguese Maximalist Federation (Portuguese: Federação Maximalista Portuguesa or FMP) was a revolutionary movement founded in 1918 in Portugal. It was inspired by the most radical factions involved in the Russian revolution of 1917.
Portuguese Military Academy The Military Academy (Academia Militar) is a Portuguese military establishment, which has the ability to confer educational qualifications equivalent to a university. It develops activities of teaching, research and support for the communities with the purpose of training and forming officers for the Portuguese Army and the Republican National Guard.
Portuguese National Liberation Front Portuguese National Liberation Front (in Portuguese: Frente Portuguesa de Libertação Nacional) was a Portuguese political movement, founded in Rome 1964 by General Humberto Delgado following a split from the Patriotic National Liberation Front based in Algiers. FPLN was led by Delgado until he was assassinated by PIDE in 1965.
Portuguese Navy The Portuguese Navy (Portuguese: Marinha Portuguesa, also known as Marinha de Guerra Portuguesa or as Armada Portuguesa) is the naval branch of the Portuguese Armed Forces which, in cooperation with the other branches of the Portuguese military, is charged with the defence of Portugal.
Portuguese orthography The orthography of Portuguese is based on the Latin alphabet, and makes use of the acute accent, the circumflex accent, the grave accent, the tilde, and the cedilla, to denote stress, vowel height, nasalization, and other sound changes. Brazilian Portuguese also uses the diaeresis mark.
Portuguese Oak The Portuguese Oak (Quercus faginea), sometimes called the Lusitanian Oak, is a species of oak native to the western Mediterranean region in the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands. Similar trees in the Atlas Mountains of northwest Africa are usually included in this species, or sometimes treated as a distinct species Quercus tlemcenensis.
Portuguese Open The Portuguese Open, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Estoril Open de Portugal Caixa Geral de Depositos, is an annual tournament on men's golf's European Tour. It has been played since 1953, with a few skipped years, and has been part of the European Tour's schedule since the Tour's first official season in 1972.
Portuguese passport Portuguese passports are issued to citizens of Portugal for the purpose of international travel. However the bilhete de identidade (English: Identity Card) can serve as a travel document within the countries of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.
Portuguese pavement Portuguese pavement (Portuguese, Calçada Portuguesa), is the traditional paving used in most pedestrian areas in Portugal. Being usually used in sidewalks, it is in plazas and atriums this art finds its deepest expression.
Portuguese people The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of southwest Europe. Portuguese is their native language and Roman Catholicism is their predominant religion.
Portuguese presidential election, 2006 The Portuguese presidential election were held on January 22, 2006 to elect a successor to the incumbent President Jorge Sampaio, who was term-limited from running for a third consecutive term by the Constitution of Portugal. The result was a victory in the first round for AnĂ­bal Cavaco Silva of the Social Democratic Party candidate, the former Prime Minister, won 50.
Portuguese profanity Portuguese profanity is an assortment of words considered blasphemous or inflammatory in the Portuguese language. Many coarse words are used in Brazil, while others may be limited to Portugal or to African Portuguese-speaking nations.
Portuguese Podengo The Portuguese Podengo is an ancient sighthound/scenthound breed of dog from Portugal. The Podengo comes in three sizes - small (Pequeno), medium (Medio) and large (Grande), each with two hair coats (smooth and wirehaired).
Portuguese real The real (meaning: royal, plural: réis) was the unit of currency of Portugal from around 1500 until 1911. It replaced the dinheiro at the rate of 1 real = 840 dinheiros and was itself replaced by the escudo (as a result of the Republican revolution of 1910) at a rate of 1 escudo = 1000 réis.
Portuguese rock The Portuguese rock scene hit mainstream in 1980 with the release of Hard de Rock by Rui Veloso, which was the first popular Portuguese rock song. Before that, Portugal had a vibrant underground progressive rock scene in the 1970s, which included bands like Tantra (Misterios E Maravilhas), Jose Cid (10 000 Anos Depois Entre Venus E Marte) and Tarantula (Kingdom of Lusitania), the latest being considered by many to be the first metal Portuguese act.
Portuguese Republican National Guard The Republican National Guard (Guarda Nacional Republicana or GNR in Portuguese) is a Portuguese security organization of the Gendarmerie type, whose soldiers, unlike the officers of the Polícia de Segurança Pública (Public Safety Police - PSP), are subject to military law and organization. The GNR is responsible for Honour guard and changing of guards ceremonies in public buildings like the Assembly of the Republic (São Bento, Lisbon), the President’s Palace (Belém, Lisbon), the Foreign Office Palace (Necessidades, Lisbon), etc.
Portuguese Republican Party The Portuguese Republican Party (Portuguese: Partido Republicano PortuguĂŞs, pron. ) was a Portuguese political party formed during the late years of monarchy that proposed and conducted the substitution of the Constitutional Monarchy by the Portuguese First Republic.
Portuguese sweet bread Portuguese sweet bread ("Massa Sovada" or simply "Massa", "PĂŁo Doce" and the Easter version with eggs is better known as "Folar") is a bread made with milk, sugar and/or honey to produce a subtly sweet lightly textured loaf. It was traditionally made around the Christmas and Easter holidays (often with hard boiled eggs baked into the loaves for the latter holiday) as a round-shaped loaf, but today it is made and available year round.
Portuguese Supreme Court of Justice Portuguese Supreme Court of Justice (Portuguese: Supremo Tribunal de Justiça, pron. ) is the highest court of law in Portugal and is without prejudice to the jurisdiction of the Portuguese Constitutional Court.
Portuguese Timor Portuguese Timor is the former name (1596 - 1975) of East Timor when it was under Portuguese control. During this period, Portugal shared the island of Timor with the Netherlands East Indies, and later with Indonesia.
Portuguese Timorese pataca The pataca was the currency of Portuguese Timor between 1894 and 1959, except for the period 1942-1945, when the occupying Japanese introduced the Netherlands Indies gulden and roepiah. It was equal in value to the Macanese pataca and was subdivided into 100 avos.
Portuguese Wikipedia The Portuguese Wikipedia is a Portuguese language edition of Wikipedia (written Wikipédia, in Portuguese), the free encyclopedia. It was the fifth edition of Wikipedia, started in June 2001, and reached 200,000 articles on November 29th, 2006.
PortuGreek PortuGreek is the fictional trade language of the inhabitants of the oceanic world in the movie Waterworld. In the film, the Mariner addresses a barter outpost in PortuGreek, calling it "their own language".
Portulaca oleracea Portulaca oleracea (Common Purslane, also known as Verdolaga, Pigweed, Little Hogweed or Pusley), is an annual succulent in the family Portulacaceae, which can reach 40 cm in height.. It is a native of India and the Middle East, but is naturalised elsewhere and in some regions is considered an invasive weed.
Portulacaceae Portulacaceae is a family of flowering plants, comprising about 20 genera with about 500 species, ranging from herbaceous plants to shrubs. The family has been recognised by most taxonomists, and is also known as the purslane family; it has a cosmopolitan distribution, with the highest diversity in semi-arid regions of the Southern Hemisphere in Africa, Australia, and South America, but with a few species also extending north into Arctic regions.
Portumna Portumna (Port Omna in Irish - meaning port of the oak) is a town in County Galway, Ireland, on the border with County North Tipperary. Portumna is located in South East Galway at the point where the River Shannon enters Lough Derg.
Portunus pelagicus Portunus pelagicus, also known as the flower crab, blue swimming crab or sand crab, is a large crab found in the intertidal estuaries of the Indian and Pacific Oceans (Asian coasts) and the Middle-Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The name "flower crab" is used in east Asian countries while the latter names are used in Australia.
Portunus trituberculatus Portunus trituberculatus, the gazami crab, Japanese blue crab or horse crab, is the most widely fished species of crab in the world, with over 300,000 tonnes being caught annually, 98% of it off the coast of China .
Portus Julius Portus Julius (alternately spelled in the Latin "Iulius") was the home port for the Roman western imperial fleet, the classis Misenensis, named for nearby Cape Miseno. (The eastern fleet was in Ravenna.
Portvoller Portvoller (in Gaelic, Port Mholair) is a small village on the north tip of the Eye Peninsula (also known as Point) on the Isle of Lewis (north west Scotland) 11 miles from the Outer Hebrides only town (Stornoway, Outer Hebrides).
Portwood Portwood is an area in Stockport, England, lying just outside the town centre, and based around Great Portwood Street. It is a mixed area, with the part closest to the town centre mainly given over to shops (eg The Peel Centre)and the further part residential.
Portwrinkle Portwrinkle is a small village in Cornwall, England. It was traditionally a fishing village and the old 17th century walls of the pilchard cellars are still standing, although they are being encorporated into housing.
Porunaraatruppadai Porunaraatruppadai, is a Tamil poetic work in the Pathinenmaelkanakku anthology of Tamil literature, belonging to the Sangam period corresponding to between 100 BCE – 100 CE. Porunaraatruppadai contains 250 lines of poems in the Achiriyappa meter.
Porus Porus (a version of the Indian names Puru), was the ruler of a Kingdom in Punjab located between the Jhelum and the Chenab (in Greek, the Hydaspes and the Acesines) rivers in the Punjab. Its capital may have been near the current city of Lahore www.
Porvenir, Chile Founded in 1883 by immigrants from Croatia and Chiloé during a minor nineteenth century gold rush, Porvenir is the capital of the Chilean province of Tierra del Fuego, located at 53:17:45S, 70:21:53W. It is a small town of 5,400 inhabitants, including several thousand soldiers.
Porvoo Communion The Porvoo Communion is the community formed through an agreement between twelve European churches which consider themselves as maintaining the Catholic and Apostolic Faith while being Protestant with regard to the Roman Catholic Church. The agreement, entitled, The Porvoo Common Statement, establishes full communion between and among the churches.
Porygon are one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise – a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. The purpose of Porygon in the games, anime and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon, untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments, and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.
Porygon2 are one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise – a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. The purpose of Porygon2 in the games, anime and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon, untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments, and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.
Porz Porz () is a borough or Stadtbezirk of Cologne, It is situated on the right side of the Rhine in the south-east of the city.Porz is the largest borough of Cologne by area at 78,87 km ² and has 107,500 inhabitants.
Porzellaner Porzellaner was the nickname of a Prussian dragoon regiment, so called because it was presented by the King of Poland, Augustus the Strong, to the King of Prussia Frederick William in 1717 in return for a dinner service. Its official regimental number was 6.
Porziuncola Porziuncola, also called Portiuncula (in Latin) or Porzioncula, is a town and parish situated about three-quarters of a mile from Assisi. It is also the name of the little church from where the Franciscan movement started.
Posaconazole Posaconazole is a triazole antifungal drug that is used to treat invasive infections by Candida species and Aspergillus species in severely immunocompromised patients. There is also limited clinical evidence for its utility in treatment of invasive disease caused by Fusarium species (fusariosis).
Posad A posad () was a settlement, often surrounded by bulwarks and a moat, by a town or a kremlin, but outside the town/kremlin, or by a monastery in the 10th to 15th centuries. Usually it was inhabited by craftsmen and merchants.
Posada Posada is an ancient town of Sardinia, Italy and the main town of an historical district called Baronia di Posada or Baronia Alta (to be distinguished from Baronia Bassa or Baronia di Orosei/Galtelli'), on the Tyrrhenian coast of the island.
Posadas Las Posadas (Spanish for "The Inns") is a nine-day celebration beginning December 16 and ending December 24 which is called Noche Buena ("Holy Night"). It is a yearly tradition for many christian Latin Americans and symbolizes the trials which they believe Mary and Joseph endured before finding a place to stay and where Jesus could be born.
Posadas, Misiones Posadas is the capital city of the Argentine province of Misiones, located at the south of the province, on the left-hand (western) shore of the Paraná River, opposite Encarnación, Paraguay. The city has an area of 965 km² and a population of 255,052 ().
Posadis In computing, Posadis is a GPL-licensed DNS server for Microsoft Windows and Unix that uses a zone file format that is compatible with BIND zone files. Posadis is part of a suite which includes graphical configuration and zone file management programs.
Posadowsky Bay Posadowsky Bay is an open embayment in the vicinity of Gaussberg, just east of the West Ice Shelf. Discovered in February 1902 by German Antarctic Expedition under Erich von Drygalski, who named it for Count Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner, Imperial Home Secretary, who secured a government grant to cover the cost of the Drygalski expedition.
Posca Posca is a fictional character in the HBO/BBC2 original television series Rome, played by Nicholas Woodeson. He is the body slave of Julius Caesar, yet is also his friend, aide-de-camp, and confidante in most things personal and professional.
Pose (computer vision) In computer vision and in robotics, pose refers to the 3D position and orientation of a specific object relative to some coordinate frame, depicted in an image or set of images. It can also be applied to the orientation of a living being or parts of a living being, e.
Pose to pose A term used for a type of computer animation where armatures are posed and keyframed, so that the poses and be later be interpolated (a mathimatical term meaning to make a transition between two points) to create complex or natural motions (like a cat walking, or breakdancing). Pose to pose is based on Forward kinematics, and is used in 3D applications such as Blender (software) that lack good quality Inverse kinematics.
Poseci Bune Poseci Waqalevu Bune is a Fijian politician, who has served as Deputy Leader of the Fiji Labour Party (FLP). From June to December 2006, he served as Minister for the Environment, one of nine FLP ministers, in the multiparty Cabinet of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase.
Posedown A posedown (or the posedown) is the term commonly used to describe a period during bodybuilding contests when contestants pull a variety of poses to demonstrate their physique and muscular development, often including all contestants on stage together attempting to 'out do' their fellow competitors.
Poseidon (film) Poseidon is an Academy Award-nominated 2006 remake of the classic disaster film The Poseidon Adventure, based on the novel by Paul Gallico. It was released on May 12, 2006 and stars Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Jacinda Barrett, Emmy Rossum and Richard Dreyfuss.
Poseidon bubble The Poseidon bubble was a stock market bubble in which the price of Australian mining shares soared in late 1969, then crashed in early 1970. It was triggered by the Poseidon NL company's discovery of a promising site for nickel mining in September 1969.
Poseidon class Supercarrier The Poseidon class supercarrier is a supercarrier created for the Babylon 5 Wars game based on the of Babylon 5 universe. The Poseidon is the primary carrier ship in the military branch of the Earth Alliance called EarthForce.
Poseidon drowning detection system The Poseidon drowning detection system is a computer aided drowning detection system. The system is commonly installed in bathing areas, such as municipal swimming baths, waterparks, therepeutic baths, and other places where there is standing water in which there is a risk of drowning.
Poseidon for UML Poseidon for UML is a software application used to create models with the Unified Modeling Language. It originated from the ArgoUML project, but massive changes were necessary in order to make ArgoUML into a commercial project; as a result the two efforts are very divergent.
Poseidon Linux Poseidon Linux is a Linux distribution based on Kurumin Linux, developed and maintained by a team of scientists in the Rio Grande do Sul University Foundation (Portuguese: Fundação Universidade do Rio Grande) in Brazil.
Poseidon of Cape Artemision The bronze Poseidon of Cape Artemision is an ancient Greek sculpture that was recovered from the sea off Cape Artemision, in northern Euboea (Modern Greek Εύβοια, Évia). It represents the God of the Sea,Some scholars read it as a Zeus hurling the thunderbolt, a subject known from bronze statuettes.
Posen Conference The Posen Conference was a meeting attended by SS-Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, Nazi Party officials and Gauleiters on October 6, 1943 in Posen, Eastern Germany (now Poznań, Poland). Himmler clearly explained in the final speech of the day the nature of the Final Solution, its implications for those present, and its long-term significance for Germany.
Posen District Posen District was the southern of two administrative districts (German: Regierungsbezirk, Polish:Rejencja) of the Province of Posen (1849-1918) by the Prussian administration and its predecessor the semi-autonomous Grand Duchy of Poznań (1815-1849).
Posen speech On October 4, 1943, Heinrich Himmler, leader of the Schutzstaffel (SS), gave a three-hour speech at Posen (now Poznań, Poland) where the Reichsführer-SS spoke to the assembled SS-Gruppenführer. The speech, titled Rede zu den SS Fuhrern ("Speech to SS Officers") lays out Himmler's views about the extermination of Jews and others (such as Slavs) deemed to be enemies of the German Reich.
Posen-West Prussia The Border Province of Posen-West Prussia (Grenzmark Posen-WestpreuĂźen in German) was a province of the Free State of Prussia, located in present-day Poland. It was created in 1922 out of those parts of the provinces of Posen and the western parts of West Prussia that remained with the Weimar Republic after the end of World War I; the largest parts of these provinces had become parts of the Polish Republic according to the Treaty of Versailles.
Poseokjeong The Poseokjeong site near Namsan in Gyeongju was built in the Silla period. The site once featured a royal pavilion–said to have been the most beautiful royal villa of the time—, but the only remains today is a granite water feature.
Posession of Interest Possession of Interest (Noun) is the philosophical term used to determine the act of one caring or ones interest over something. EXP: "You are always talking about your clothes, but that is not in my possession of interest.
Poseur Poseur is a label given to a person who adopts the dress, speech, and/or mannerisms of a particular group or subculture in order to impress the person(s) within the group. The lifestyle which he or she is trying to adopt is not one with which he or she would normally associate: it is "other than his or her true one.
Posey Straitjacket A Posey Straitjacket is one name brand used primarily for the mentally insane. Featuring four backstraps, an arm loop, a crotch strap, arm straps and self-tightening clasps, a Posey Straitjacket is considered to be the most difficult commercially available straitjacket to escape from.
Posh (album) Posh is a 1980 album released by R&B singer Patrice Rushen, her third album for Elektra Records and sixth album overall. With the albums Pizzazz and Posh, Patrice Rushen was able to enter the 1980s on a high note.
Posh Boy Records Posh Boy Records was a Hollywood, California based record label owned by Robbie Fields, a sometime high school substitute teacher who took an interest in the emerging punk rock scene in Orange County, California during the early 1980s. Its releases enjoyed substantial airplay on Rodney Bingenheimer's show on KROQ, and some of its releases, notably the Robbie Fields produced version of Amoeba by The Adolesecents and the synth rock classic Are You Ready For The Sex Girls performed by Sparks offshoot Gleaming Spires and produced by Stephen Hague, made it into regular programming on the station.
Posh Paws Posh Paws was a stuffed dinosaur toy used as the mascot for the BBC Television programme Multi-Coloured Swap Shop. The name is an anagram of the show's title and was the winning entry in a competition held by the show to name the mascot.
Poschiavo Poschiavo is the main municipality in the Val Poschiavo, a valley in southern Switzerland. It is located in the district of Bernina in the canton of GraubĂĽnden, and is one of only four valleys in the canton where the official language is Italian.
Posicore Posicore is a uncommonly used term that is used to describe positive hardcore music, played by bands such as Good Clean Fun and 7 Seconds. Members and fans of Posicore bands are usually straight edge and/or vegan.
Posidonius Posidonius (Greek: Ποσειδώνιος / Poseidonios) "of Rhodes" (ὁ Ρόδιος) or, alternatively, "of Apameia" (ὁ Απαμεύς) (ca. 135 BCE - 51 BCE), was a Greek Stoic philosopher, politician, astronomer, geographer, historian, and teacher.
Posidonius (crater) Posidonius is a lunar impact crater that is located on the western edge of Mare Serenitatis, to the south of Lacus Somniorum. The Chacornac crater is attached to the southeast rim, and to the north is Daniell crater.
Posie ring Posie rings (sometimes spelled "posy ", "posey" or "poesy rings") are finger rings with short inscriptions on their outer surfaces. More rarely the inscription is on the inner surface.
Position (poker) Position in poker refers to the order in which players are seated around the table and the related poker strategy implications. Players who act first are in "early position"; players who act later are in "late position".
Position (team sports) Position in team sports refers to the joint arrangement of a team on its field of play during a game and to the standardized place of any individual player in that arrangement. Much instruction, strategy, and reporting is organized by a set of individual player positions that is standard for the sport.
Position angle Position angle, usually abbreviated PA, is a measurement derived from observing visual binary stars. It is defined as the angular offset in degrees of the secondary star to the primary, relative to the north celestial pole.
Position argument Position Argument: In a position argument, the writer makes a claim about a controversial issue (Good Reason With Contemporary Arguments Second Edition by Lester Fraigley, Jack Selzer 2004 Pearson Education Inc. page 18)
Position effect Position effect is the effect on the expression of a gene when its location in a chromosome is changed, often by translocation. This has been well described in Drosophila with respect to eye color and is known as position effect variagation (PEV).
Position error Most aircraft have an inherent difference between (theoretical) calibrated airspeed (CAS) and the airspeed actually shown on the instrument (indicated airspeed, or IAS). This position error is mainly due to errors in sensing static pressure.
Position line A position line is a line that can be identified both on a nautical chart or aeronautical chart and by observation out on the surface of the earth. The intersection of two position lines is a fix that used in position fixing to identify the navigator's location.
Position of Lebanon in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict Lebanon's position in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict has from the start been to disavow the Hezbollah shelling and raid on 12 July, while calling for an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of all Israeli forces from Lebanese territory.
Position player In baseball, a position player is a player who on defense plays as an infielder, outfielder, or catcher. This is generally all players on a team except for the pitcher, who is considered separately from the position players; in the American League, there is also a designated hitter, who bats but does not play any defensive positions (and is therefore not a position player).
Position tolerance Position Tolerance is a Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) location control used on engineering drawings to specify desired location as well as allowed non-conformitied to the position of a feature on a part. Position tolerance must only be applied to features of size, which necessitates that the feature have at least two opposible points.
Position-independent code In computing, position-independent code (PIC) or position-independent executable (PIE) is machine instruction code that executes properly regardless of where in memory it resides. PIC is commonly used for shared libraries, so that the same library code can be loaded in a location in each program address space where it won't overlap any other uses of memory (for example, other shared libraries).
Positional asphyxia Positional asphyxia, also known as postural asphyxia, is a form of asphyxia which occurs when someone's position prevents them from breathing adequately. A small but significant number of people die suddenly and without apparent reason during restraint by police, prison (corrections) officers and health care staff.
Positional good Positional goods are products and services whose value is mostly, if not exclusively, a function of their ranking in desirability in comparison to subsitutes. The extent to which a good's value depends on such a ranking is referred to as its positionality.
Positional notation A positional notation or place-value notation system is a numeral system in which each position is related to the next by a constant multiplier, a common ratio, called the base (or radix) of that numeral system. Each position may be represented by a unique symbol or by a limited set of symbols.

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