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Currency

Norwegian penning The penning was the dominant currency of the Norwegian coin system in the period 995–1387. Minted in Norway by the kings of Norway from Olaf Tryggvason (995-1000) and up to Olaf Haakonsson (1380-1387), it remained as a unit of account in th ...

Swedish penning The penning or penny was the Swedish variant of the Norwegian penning that was minted from about 1150 until 1548, and which remained as a unit of account in Sweden until 1777. Originally, penning was first minted in Norway by the kings of Norway, No ...

People

Mike Penning Sir Michael Alan Penning (born 28 September 1957) is a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), member of parliament (MP) for Hemel Hempstead (UK Parliament constitu ...

(born 1957), British politician *

Frans Michel Penning Frans Michel Penning (12 September 1894 – 6 December 1953) was a Dutch experimental physicist. He received his PhD from the University of Leiden in 1923, and studied low pressure gas discharges at the Philips Laboratory in Eindhoven, developing ...

(1894–1953), Dutch physicist * Edmund Penning-Rowsell (1913–2002), British journalist * Louwrens Penning (1854-1927), Dutch novelist

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Penning trap A Penning trap is a device for the storage of charged particles using a homogeneous magnetic field and a quadrupole electric field. It is mostly found in the physical sciences and related fields of study for precision measurements of properties o ...

, energy storage device *

Penning gauge Pressure measurement is the measurement of an applied force by a fluid (liquid or gas) on a surface. Pressure is typically measured in units of force per unit of surface area. Many techniques have been developed for the measurement of pressure ...

, vacuum gauge * Penning ionization, form of ionization *

Penning mixture A Penning mixture is a mixture of gases that is used in electric gas-discharge lamps. It is defined as a mixture of one inert gas with a minute amount of another gas, one that has lower ionization voltage than the main constituent. It is named aft ...

, a gas mixture * Pony penning, annual pony roundup on Chincoteague island *

Team penning Team penning is a western equestrianism, equestrian sport that evolved from the common ranch work of separating cattle into pens for branding, doctoring, or transport. Today it is a fast-paced event that gives a team of three riders on horseback ...

, western equestrian sport *another word for

writing Writing is the act of creating a persistent representation of language. A writing system includes a particular set of symbols called a ''script'', as well as the rules by which they encode a particular spoken language. Every written language ...

*confining animals in an enclosure (pen)

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