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PET
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Appendix:Variations of "pet"
English
Etymology
The name of the computer (en computer) derives from the 1970s pet rock fad; the acronym was invented afterwards.
Noun
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en Q145863 en uncountable organic compound en polyethylene terephthalate<id:Q145863>.
en PETE<id:Q145863>
en polymer#Noun < plastic#Noun < material#Noun
en Dacron Terylene PE PEF PETG
en Eleni Tsangouri et al. Reservoir-Vascular Tubes Network for Self-Healing Concrete: Performance Analysis by Acoustic Emission, Digital Image Correlation and Ultrasound Velocity Applied Sciences 12 10 10.3390/app12104821 2022-05-09 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 technology. The additively manufactured PET reservoir blocks were previously applied and proven to effectively circulate the agent through the healing network [6]. https://web.archive.org/web/20250418013944/https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/10/4821
en Q208376 en countable and uncountable medicine en positron emission tomography<id:Q208376>.
en tomography#Noun < imaging#Noun
en 19 January 2024 Elizabeth Payne Heart Institute a second family to new CEOBeanlands follows in father’s footsteps at time of change for Ottawa’s institution w:Ottawa Citizen https://web.archive.org/web/20240121214539/https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/uottawa-heart-institute-a-second-family-to-newly-appointed-president-and-ceo Ottawa, Ont. Postmedia 20 January 2024 A4 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1033943434/ 2 0839-3222 23003086 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 technology can help determine whether areas of the heart muscle are receiving enough blood, if there is heart damage or scar tissue in the heart, or if there is a buildup of abnormal substances in the heart muscle.
en Q7125131 en countable genetics en paired-end tag<id:Q7125131>.
en ditag<id:Q7125131>
en tag#Noun ; sequence#Noun
en computer en countable historical computing backronym en personal electronic transactor a line of personal computers produced by Commodore International.
en w:Nick Montfort; et al. 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 2014 MIT Press https://books.google.com/books?id=jr34DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA225&dq=%22PETSCII%22&hl=&cd=1&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22PETSCII%22&f=false 978-0-262-52674-6 225 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.
en medical en perineal ectopic testis a rare congenital anomaly of the testis.
Derived terms
en fPET computer en PETSCII
Proper noun
en Canadian politics en w:Pierre Trudeau Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
en https://web.archive.org/web/20170807152104/https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2016/11/20/new-books-put-trudeaumania-in-fresh-perspective.html New books put Trudeaumania in fresh perspective 2016-11-20 Toronto Star But Wright takes a rather contrarian position about the impact of emotionally charged Trudeaumania on PET’s astonishing political rise in 1968.
Anagrams
en ept EPT PTE Pte TPE Tep ept
en Radioactivity Individuals
French
Pronunciation
pé-eu-té
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-PET.wav <<France>> (<<Vosges>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-DSwissK-PET.wav <<Switzerland>> (<<Valais>>)
Noun
m
en PET polyethylene terephthalate; fr polyéthylène téréphtalate
Spanish
Noun
mf
en PET positron emission tomography
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