PET

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

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

• Petts Wood railway station, London, England (National Rail station code)

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

See also

• Pets (disambiguation)
• Peta (disambiguation)