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plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclu ...
is a kingdom of mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes.
Plant or Planted may also refer to:
Manufacturing and engineering
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Chemical plant
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Physical plant
Physical plant, mechanical plant or industrial plant (and where context is given, often just plant) refers to the necessary infrastructure used in operation and maintenance of a given facility. The operation of these facilities, or the department ...
, often just called "plant", a facility's infrastructure (i.e., "Plant Room")
* Plant, any type of mobile
construction machinery
Heavy equipment or heavy machinery refers to heavy-duty vehicles specially designed to execute construction tasks, most frequently involving earthwork operations or other large construction tasks. ''Heavy equipment'' usually comprises five e ...
* Plant, another name for a
factory
A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. ...
(short for "manufacturing plant")
* Processing plant, in
process manufacturing
Process manufacturing is a branch of manufacturing that is associated with formulas and manufacturing recipes,
Arts, entertainment, and media
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''The Plant'' (film), a 1995 television film
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''The Plant'' (newspaper), student newspaper at Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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''The Plant'' (novel), unfinished serial novel by Stephen King
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"The Plant" (''Schitt's Creek'')
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Plant (snooker), used in British English to refer to a type of combination shot
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"Plant" (song), a 2020 song by Sejeong, from the album of the same name
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The Plants, a 1950s doo-wop group
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"A.K.A. The Plant" (''Weeds'' episode)
* PLANT, fictional organization in the anime series ''
Gundam SEED
is an anime series developed by Sunrise and directed by Mitsuo Fukuda. The ninth installment in the ''Gundam'' franchise, ''Gundam SEED'' takes place in a future calendar era, in this case the Cosmic Era. In this era, mankind has devel ...
'' and its sequel
People with the surname
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Henry B. Plant (1819–1899), American railroad manager
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John Plant (YouTube) Australian YouTuber
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Richard Plant (disambiguation), multiple people
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Robert Plant (born 1948), lead singer of Led Zeppelin
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Thomas Gustave Plant (1859–1941), British-American manufacturer
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William Plant (disambiguation), multiple people
Roles
* Plant, a
shill
A shill, also called a plant or a stooge, is a person who publicly helps or gives credibility to a person or organization without disclosing that they have a close relationship with said person or organization. Shills can carry out their operatio ...
or a stooge
* Plant, a
spy
Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence) from non-disclosed sources or divulging of the same without the permission of the holder of the information for a tangib ...
or a mole
* Plant, a
professional wrestling term for a person hired to pose as a fan who may become involved in the events
* Plant, the creative and innovative team role in Meredith Belbin's
Team Role Inventories
Other uses
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Plant (control theory)
A plant in control theory is the combination of process and actuator. A plant is often referred to with a transfer function
(commonly in the s-domain) which indicates the relation between an input signal and the output signal of a system without f ...
, a notion in control theory
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Plant (restaurant), a vegan restaurant in Asheville, North Carolina, US
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Plant, Arkansas, a community in the United States
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''Planted'' (book), a 2018 cookbook by Chantelle Nicholson
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frameup
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In the United States criminal law, a frame-up (frameup) or setup is the act of framing someone, that is, providing false evidence or false testimony in order to falsely prove someone guilty of a crime. While incriminating those who ...
to falsely incriminate someone
See also
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La Plant, South Dakota
La Plant is a census-designated place (CDP) in Dewey County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 167 at the 2020 census. It is within the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.
La Plant was laid out in 1910, and named in honor of a loca ...
, U.S.
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Laplante (disambiguation), a surname
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Plante (disambiguation)
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