Plant (disambiguation)

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A plant is a living organism that generally does not move and makes its own food.

Plant may also refer to:

In manufacturing:

  • Physical plant, often just called "plant", a facility's infrastructure (i.e. "Plant Room")
  • Another name for a factory (short for "manufacturing plant")
  • Any type of mobile construction machinery

Of people:

  • Plant (person), anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation)
  • Plant (professional wrestling), a person hired to pose as a fan and who usually winds up involved in the action, also see claque
  • Term used for a Shill in the U.K.
  • The Plants were a 1950s doo-wop group

Plant is the name of:

Other:

  • PLANT, an organization of the Cosmic Era in the anime series Gundam SEED and its sequel. The space colonies where most of the Coordinators live on are also called PLANTs
  • Plant (control theory), a notion in control theory
  • A type of shot in billiards
  • The Plant (newspaper) is a student newspaper at Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • Plant System, a system of railroads in the American southeast, managed by Henry B. Plant
  • The Plant, Manchester, a church in Manchester, England