PET

Look up PET, pet, pêt, pět, or Pet. in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

A pet is an animal kept primarily for company, protection or entertainment.

Pet or PET may also refer to:

Science and technology

Science

  • Polyethylene terephthalate, a common plastic material in the polyester family
  • Paired-end tag, a short sequence at the end of a DNA fragment
  • Photoinduced electron transfer, a process of electron transfer under action of light
  • Pólya enumeration theorem, a mathematical theorem in enumerative combinatorics
  • Potential evapotranspiration, a measure of the atmospheric demand for water vapour from evaporation and transpiration
  • pET, a series of cloning expression vectors

Medicine

  • Patulous Eustachian tube, a medical disorder affecting the middle ear
  • Positron emission tomography, a medical imaging technique
  • Pre-eclampsia, a medical complication of pregnancy

Technology

  • Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor), a 1970s era personal computer
  • Personal Energy Transportation, a mobility device for disabled individuals
  • Privacy-enhancing technologies, a general term for a set of computer tools, applications and mechanisms

Organizations and businesses

  • Politiets Efterretningstjeneste, the national intelligence security agency of Denmark
  • PET International, non-profit organization that promotes and supports Personal Energy Transportation
  • Pet, Inc., a former American producer of evaporated milk and other food products
  • Pet Airways, an American company specializing in the transportation of pets

Arts and entertainment

  • Personal Electronic Thing, part of the player-computer persona communications system in the Starship Titanic video game
  • Personal Terminal (Mega Man), a handheld device used in the Mega Man Battle Network video games
  • Pet (album), an album by Fur Patrol
  • Pet (film), a 2016 American/Spanish psychological thriller
  • Pet (manga), a manga series by Ranjō Miyake
  • Pet (novel), a 2019 young adult speculative fiction novel by Nigerian author Akwaeke Emezi
  • Penthouse Pet, a feature of Penthouse magazine

Education

  • Parent Effectiveness Training, a parent education program developed by Thomas Gordon
  • Preliminary English Test, former name of the B1 Preliminary, an examination of English proficiency provided by Cambridge English
  • Psychometric Entrance Test, an Israeli standardized university entrance exam

Transport

Other uses

  • Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919–2000), nicknamed PET, former Prime Minister of Canada
  • PET (time), the time zone for Peru
  • Potentially Exempt Transfer, a concept in the inheritance tax code of the United Kingdom
  • Presidential Electoral Tribunal, an electoral tribunal in the Philippines
  • Pet., abbreviation of Petitioner, a person who pleads with governmental institution for a legal remedy or a redress of grievances
  • Pet., abbreviation for reports by Richard Peters (reporter) (1780–1848), reporter of decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States

See also

  • Pets (disambiguation)
  • Peta (disambiguation)
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