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Science

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Plume (feather) A plume is a special type of bird feather, possessed by egrets, ostriches, birds of paradise, quetzals, pheasants, peacocks and quails. They often have a decorative or ornamental purpose, commonly used among marching bands and the military, w ...
, a prominent bird feather *
Plume (fluid dynamics) In hydrodynamics, a plume or a column is a vertical body of one fluid moving through another. Several effects control the motion of the fluid, including momentum (inertia), diffusion and buoyancy (density differences). Pure '' jets'' and pure ''pl ...
, a column consisting of one fluid moving through another fluid *
Eruption plume An eruption column or eruption plume is a cloud of super-heated ash and tephra suspended in gases emitted during an explosive volcanic eruption. The volcanic materials form a vertical column or plume that may rise many kilometers into the air ...
, a column of volcanic ash and gas emitted into the atmosphere during an eruption *
Mantle plume A mantle plume is a proposed mechanism of convection within the Earth's mantle, hypothesized to explain anomalous volcanism. Because the plume head partially melts on reaching shallow depths, a plume is often invoked as the cause of volcanic ho ...
, an upwelling of hot rock within the Earth's mantle that can cause volcanic hotspots * Moisture plume, an alternative name for an
atmospheric river An atmospheric river (AR) is a narrow corridor or filament of concentrated moisture in the atmosphere. Other names for this phenomenon are tropical plume, tropical connection, moisture plume, water vapor surge, and cloud band. Atmospheric rivers ...
, a narrow corridor of concentrated moisture in the atmosphere *
Plumage Plumage () is a layer of feathers that covers a bird and the pattern, colour, and arrangement of those feathers. The pattern and colours of plumage differ between species and subspecies and may vary with age classes. Within species, there can b ...
, the layer of feathers that cover a bird


Media and literature

* "Plume" (Air episode), a 2005 episode of the Japanese anime ''Air'' * '' Plume'', a 2006 album by Loscil * ''Plumes'' (play), a 1927 one-act play by Georgia Douglas Johnson * ''Plume'' (poetry collection), a 2012 book by Kathleen Flenniken *
Plume (publisher) Plume is a publishing company in the United States, founded in 1970 as the trade paperback imprint of New American Library. Today it is a division of Penguin Group Penguin Group is a British trade book publisher and part of Penguin Random H ...
, an American book publishing company * ''Plumes'', a 1924 novel by Laurence Stallings * A song by The Smashing Pumpkins on their 1994 album ''
Pisces Iscariot ''Pisces Iscariot'' is a compilation album by American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins, released in 1994 through Virgin Records, consisting of A-side and B-side, B-sides and outtakes. Reaching number 4 in the US upon its 1994 release ...
'' * "Plume", a song by Caravan Palace on the 2019 album ''
Chronologic ''Chronologic'' is the fourth studio album An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette ...
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People

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Plume Latraverse Plume Latraverse (born ''Michel Latraverse'' 11 May 1946) is a prolific singer, musician, songwriter and author from Quebec. At the end of the 1960s he formed a band named La Sainte Trinité with Pierrot le fou (Pierre Léger) and Pierre Landr ...
(born 1946), Canadian singer, musician, and writer *
Amélie Plume Amélie Plume (born 1943 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland) is a Swiss writer. She won the Schiller Prize for her whole body of work in 1988. She also won the Pittard de l'Andelyn Prize om 1993 for ''Promenade avec Emile L''. Her work has been de ...
(born 1943), Swiss writer * Helen Plume, New Zealand climate change expert *
Ilse Plume Ilse Plume is an illustrator of children's books. Her first book, ''The Bremen Town Musicians'', was a Caldecott Honor book for 1981. She is also a teacher of Children's Book Illustration at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Massach ...
, American children's book illustrator * Kenneth Plume (born 1977), American author and broadcaster * Mike Plume (born 1968), Canadian country music singer and songwriter *
Roberts Plūme Roberts Plūme (16 May 1897 – 25 August 1956) was a Latvian cyclist and cross-country skier. He competed as a cyclist at the 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympics and as a skier at the 1924 Winter Olympics The 1924 Winter Olympics, officiall ...
(1897–1956), Latvian cyclist and cross-country skier * Thomas Plume (1630–1704), English churchman and philanthropist, founder of the Plume School


Other uses

* Plume (company), a company that provides smart WiFi services for personal households


See also

* * La Plume (disambiguation) * Plumb (disambiguation) * Plumbe (surname) * Pluma (disambiguation) * ''
Plumeria ''Plumeria'' (), also known as frangipani, is a genus of flowering plants in the subfamily Rauvolfioideae, of the family Apocynaceae. Most species are deciduous shrubs or small trees. The species are native to the Neotropical realm (in Mexico, ...
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Flume A flume is a human-made channel for water, in the form of an open declined gravity chute whose walls are raised above the surrounding terrain, in contrast to a trench or ditch. Flumes are not to be confused with aqueducts, which are built to t ...
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