PET

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PET may refer to:

Education

• Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.), a parent education program developed by Thomas Gordon
• Preliminary English Test, an international examination of English proficiency
• Psychometric Entrance Test, an Israeli standardized university entrance exam

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

Organizations

• Pet, Inc., an American producer of evaporated milk and other food products, now part of General Mills
• PET International, non-profit organization that promotes and supports Personal Energy Transportation
• Politiets Efterretningstjeneste, the national intelligence security agency of Denmark

Science

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

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

Other uses

• PET (time), the time zone for Peru
• Potentially Exempt Transfer, a concept in the inheritance tax code of the United Kingdom
• "Personal Electronic Thing" in the Starship Titanic video game, part of the player-computer persona communications system
• Personal Terminal (MegaMan), a handheld device used in the Megaman Battle Network video games