Jet

JET, Jet or Jets all have a wide variety of meanings:

Science

• A jet is a stream of liquid or gas that can be mathematically characterized by specific calculations.
• In fluid or gas engineering contexts, a jet is a stream of material ejected from a nozzle, or a nozzle designed to produce such a stream.
• In automotive terms, a jet is a tube, nozzle, or passageway through which petrol is metered within a carburetor.
• In geology, jet (lignite) (or Whitby jet) is a mineraloid (mineral-like material).
• In meteorology, a blue jet is a form of upper atmospheric lightning.
• In meteorology, a jet is an electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm.
• In astrophysics, a relativistic jet is a stream of fast-moving plasma emitted from an active galaxy. A similar phenomenon on a much smaller scale is a polar jet. These are emitted during star formation from either side of the accretion disk, along the two polar axes.
• In nuclear and particle physics, a jet is a cone of hadrons
• In nuclear physics, the Joint European Torus or JET is an experimental Nuclear fusion reactor.
• In mathematics, a jet is an operation that produces an abstract polynomial
• In mathematics, a jet bundle (or spray) is a manipulation of differential equations
• In software engineering, Microsoft Jet Database Engine is now deprecated; the "Jet" stands for Joint Engine Technology
• In software engineering, Java Emitter Templates (JET) is a Template engine that is part of the Eclipse EMF project.

Aerospace

• Jet engine
• Jet aircraft
• Jet Airways, an airline based in India serving domestic and international routes
• JetBlue Airways, an airline based on New York
• Jetstar Airways, an Australian airline servicing domestic and International routes
• Jetsgo was a canadian airlines servicing internal routes

Water

• Water jet

Music

• Jet, a hit rock music single on the 1973 album Band on the Run by Wings
• Jet-CD (also known as Jet), 1998's album by J-pop band, Puffy AmiYumi
• Jet, a rock band from Melbourne, Australia
• Jet, a rock band that existed from 1971 to 1974, from Genoa, northern Italy
• Jet, a glam rock band from England that recorded one eponymous album in 1975
• The Jets, a family band from Minneapolis, Minnesota that does pop, R&B, dance and religious music, and had several hit singles in the 1980s
• The Jets, a 1970s rock band from Pekin, Illinois
• Jet Records, a record label

Fiction

• Jet, a character from Wildstorm/DC Comics, and the daughter of Backlash. Another character by the name of Jet, a female one, exists in DC comics, New Guardians.
• Jet Black, a main character from the anime Cowboy Bebop.
• Jet, a character from the Earth Kingdom forests in the TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender
• The Jets, a gang in West Side Story which fought with the Sharks.
• JET TV, a television station in the Jadeworld station group
• Jet the Hawk, a video game character.
• Jet, a widely used and very famous drug in the Fallout 2 universe.
• Jet Fusion, a super spy who makes occasional appearances in the cartoon The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius'

Sports

• New York Jets, a professional American football team in the National Football League
• Newcastle United Jets, a professional soccer team in the Australian A-League competition
• Winnipeg Jets, a former professional hockey team in the World Hockey Association and National Hockey League
• Jet (Diane Youdale) was one of the stars of Gladiators
• "Jet," or "Jet Terry," nickname of the popular Dallas Maverick and former University of Arizona point guard Jason Terry.
• Benny "The Jet" Urquidez, A kickboxer, coreographer and actor (Benny Urquidez)

Culture

• Jet (slang), to leave in a hurry
• Jet, an African-American themed magazine
• Jet, a filling station brand of ConocoPhillips
• A ZX Spectrum clone from Romania.
• JET, a 1985 flight simulator produced by subLOGIC
• The JET Programme - The Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme (teaching English)

Places

• Jet, a town in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, United States