PET

Initialism of Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

Proper noun

  1. Initialism of Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
    • But Wright takes a rather contrarian position about the impact of emotionally charged Trudeaumania on PET’s astonishing political rise in 1968. - 2016 November 20, “New books put Trudeaumania in fresh perspective”, in...

Origin

The name of the computer (noun sense 4) derives from the 1970s pet rock fad; the acronym was invented afterwards.

Noun

  1. Initialism of polyethylene terephthalate.
    • An effort was made to fit the flexible tube at least 3 mm deep onto the vasculature; (2) for the remaining systems, 3D-printed polyethylene terephthalate (PET) reservoir blocks were manufactured by PrintPlace using FDM...

    Synonyms: PETE

    Hypernyms: polymer plastic material

    Coordinate Terms: Dacron Terylene PE PEF PETG

  2. Acronym of positron emission tomography.
    • He [Rob Beanlands] is a founding director of the National Cardiac PET Centre, the first facility in Canada dedicated to the use of PET (positron-emission tomography) as a non-invasive cardiac diagnostic tool. PET...

    Hypernyms: tomography imaging

  3. Acronym of paired-end tag.

    Synonyms: ditag

    Hypernyms: tag sequence

  4. Acronym of personal electronic transactor, a line of personal computers produced by Commodore International.
    • Why is the order of graphical characters in the PETSCII table so seemingly haphazard? The answer is that arrangement was dictated by the PET keyboard design, a hardware-driven decision. - 2014, Nick Montfort et al., 10...
  5. Initialism of perineal ectopic testis (a rare congenital anomaly of the testis).

Forms

PETs

Derived

PETSCII fPET