Puma

Puma or PUMA may refer to:

Animals

Puma (genus), a genus in the family Felidae
- Puma (species) or cougar, a large cat

Businesses and organisations

Puma (brand), a multinational shoe and sportswear company
Puma Energy, a mid- and downstream oil company
People United Means Action, a political action committee during the 2008 U.S. presidential election

Languages

Puma language, a language of Nepal
Teanu language or Puma, a language of the Solomon Islands

People

Carlos Landín Martínez, a.k.a. El Puma, Mexican drug lord
José Luis Carranza (born 1964), a.k.a. El Puma, Peruvian footballer
José Luis Rodríguez (born 1943), a.k.a. El Puma, Venezuelan singer and actor
Puma King (born 1990), a.k.a. Puma, Mexican wrestler
Puma Swede (born 1976), Swedish pornographic actress
Ricochet (wrestler) (born 1988), a.k.a. Puma, American wrestler
T. J. Perkins (born 1984), a.k.a. Puma, American wrestler

Places

Puma (village), Solomon Islands
Puma (Tanzanian ward)

Sports

Pumas (rugby team), a South African rugby union team representing Mpumalanga province
Los Pumas, the Argentina national rugby union team
Pumas de la UNAM or Club Universidad Nacional, a Mexican league football club

Science and technology

Puma (microarchitecture), a computer microarchitecture by AMD
Puma (web server), an HTTP web server
Puma (Hewlett-Packard), a codename for the HP 1000CX palmtop PC
Mac OS X Puma or Mac OS X 10.1, an operating system
Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly, an industrial robot arm
Protected User Mode Audio (PUMA), a subset of Protected Media Path, a DRM technology
p53 upregulated modulator of apoptosis (PUMA), a pro-apoptotic protein
Paediatric-use marketing authorisation (PUMA), by the European Medicines Agency

Transportation

Aircraft

Aero-Service Puma, a Polish ultralight aircraft
Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma, a helicopter
BDC Aero Puma, a Canadian ultralight aircraft

Automobiles

Puma (car manufacturer), a Brazilian, then South African, brand of sports cars
Puma (kit car company), an Italian brand of dune buggy and sports kit-car
Ford Puma (crossover), an American-German subcompact SUV
Ford Puma (sport compact), an American-German compact sports coupe
Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility (PUMA), an experimental vehicle by Segway and General Motors

Combat vehicles

Puma (AFV), an Italian family of armoured fighting vehicles
Puma (IFV), a German infantry fighting vehicle
Puma armored engineering vehicle, an Israeli combat engineering vehicle
PUMA M26-15, a South African armoured personnel carrier

Other uses

Puma (band), a Norwegian experimental jazz ensamble
Puma (comics), a comic book character Thomas Fireheart
Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA), geographic units used by the U.S. Census

gollark: I think the more powerful ones can run stuff like stripped-down Node.js or MicroPython.

gollark: You use C for those mostly.

gollark: It would probably have a microcontroller in it, and those typically run C.

gollark: There's probably some way to rewrite them as a bunch of equations, say, then solve those - you know the amount of X atom/ion on the left is equal to the amount on the right, and you know the amount on the left is equal to (moles of reactant A * 3 + moles of reactant B * 2) and so on.

gollark: I think what humans do is randomly guess a bit, tweak the numbers so they match better, then infer the rest when they reach something consistent.