PET
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PET may mean:
- Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor)
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919–2000), an influential Canadian politician
- Preliminary English Test, the second level of the Cambridge University exams in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)
- Politiets Efterretningstjeneste, the Danish Security Intelligence Service
- Polyethylene terephthalate, a common plastic material
- Positron emission tomography, a three-dimensional imaging technique in nuclear medicine
- Potential evapotranspiration, a measure of the atmospheric demand for water vapour from evaporation and transpiration
- Potentially Exempt Transfer, a concept in UK Inheritance Tax.
- Photoinduced energy transfer (or photoinduced electron transfer), a mechanism of molecular fluorescence
- Parent Effectiveness Training, a method of parenting, pioneered by Thomas Gordon, that emphasizes verbal communication, negotiation, and parent-child equality.
- Personal terminal, a handheld device used for communication with another machine.
- Personal Terminal (Megaman), a handheld device used in the Megaman Battle Network video games.
- pET, a plasmid vector for protein expression. Contains T7 promoter and a selective marker gene, eg lac I.