pet A pet, or companion animal, is an animal kept primarily for a person's company or entertainment rather than as a working animal, livestock, or a laboratory animal. Popular pets are often considered to have attractive/ cute appearances, inte ...

is an animal kept primarily for company, protection or entertainment. Pet or PET may also refer to:

Science and technology

Science

Polyethylene terephthalate Polyethylene terephthalate (or poly(ethylene terephthalate), PET, PETE, or the obsolete PETP or PET-P), is the most common thermoplastic polymer resin of the polyester family and is used in synthetic fibre, fibres for clothing, packaging, conta ...

, a common plastic material in the polyester family *

Paired-end tag Paired-end tags (PET) (sometimes "Paired-End diTags", or simply "ditags") are the short sequences at the 5’ and 3' ends of a DNA fragment which are unique enough that they (theoretically) exist together only once in a genome, therefore making the ...

, a short sequence at the end of a DNA fragment *

Photoinduced electron transfer Photoinduced electron transfer (PET) is an excited state electron transfer process by which an excited electron is transferred from donor to acceptor."Organic and Inorganic Photochemistry" V. Ramamurthy and Kirk S. Schanze 1998 Marcel Dekker Due ...

, a process of electron transfer under action of light *

Pólya enumeration theorem The Pólya enumeration theorem, also known as the Redfield–Pólya theorem and Pólya counting, is a theorem in combinatorics that both follows from and ultimately generalizes Burnside's lemma on the number of orbits of a group action on a set. T ...

, a mathematical theorem in enumerative combinatorics *

Potential evapotranspiration Potential evapotranspiration (PET) or potential evaporation (PE) is the amount of water that would be evaporated and transpired by a specific crop, soil or ecosystem if there was sufficient water available. It is a reflection of the energy avail ...

, a measure of the atmospheric demand for water vapour from evaporation and transpiration * pET, a series of cloning

expression vector An expression vector, otherwise known as an expression construct, is usually a plasmid or virus designed for gene expression in cells. The vector (molecular biology), vector is used to introduce a specific gene into a target cell, and can command ...

Medicine

Patulous Eustachian tube Patulous Eustachian tube is the name of a physical disorder where the Eustachian tube, which is normally closed, instead stays intermittently open. When this occurs, the person experiences autophony, the hearing of self-generated sounds. These s ...

, a medical disorder affecting the middle ear *

Positron emission tomography Positron emission tomography (PET) is a functional imaging technique that uses radioactive substances known as radiotracers to visualize and measure changes in metabolic processes, and in other physiological activities including blood flow, r ...

, a medical imaging technique *

Pre-eclampsia Pre-eclampsia is a multi-system disorder specific to pregnancy, characterized by the new onset of hypertension, high blood pressure and often a significant amount of proteinuria, protein in the urine or by the new onset of high blood pressure a ...

, a medical complication of pregnancy

Technology

Commodore PET The Commodore PET is a line of personal computers produced starting in 1977 by Commodore International. A single all-in-one case combines a MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor, Commodore BASIC in read-only memory, keyboard, monochrome monitor ...

(Personal Electronic Transactor), a 1970s era personal computer * Personal Energy Transportation, a mobility device for disabled individuals *

Privacy-enhancing technologies Privacy-enhancing technologies (PET) are technologies that embody fundamental data protection principles by minimizing personal data use, maximizing data security, and empowering individuals. PETs allow online users to protect the privacy of their ...

, a general term for a set of computer tools, applications and mechanisms

Organizations and businesses

Politiets Efterretningstjeneste The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (DSIS; (PET)) is the national security and intelligence agency of Denmark. The agency focuses solely on national security while foreign intelligence operations are handled by the Danish Defense Intel ...

, the national intelligence security agency of Denmark * PET International, non-profit organization that promotes and supports Personal Energy Transportation *

Pet, Inc. Pet, Inc. was an American company that was the first to commercially produce evaporated milk as a shelf-stable consumer product with its "PET Milk" brand. While evaporated milk was popular before refrigerators were common in homes, sales peaked ...

, a former American producer of evaporated milk and other food products *

Pet Airways Pet Airways was an American company headquartered in Delray Beach, Florida, that specialized exclusively in air transportation of pets. The airline claimed to be the first designed specifically for pets where pets flew in the main cabin, not in ca ...

, 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 ''Starship Titanic'' is an adventure game developed by The Digital Village and published by Simon & Schuster Interactive. It was released in April 1998 for Microsoft Windows and in March 1999 for Macintosh, Apple Macintosh. The game takes place ...

'' 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 * Penthouse Pet, a feature of ''

Penthouse Penthouse most often refers to: *Penthouse apartment, a special apartment on the top floor of a building * ''Penthouse'' (magazine), a British-founded men's magazine *Mechanical penthouse, a floor, typically located directly under a flat-roof, tha ...

'' magazine

Education

* Parent Effectiveness Training, a parent education program developed by Thomas Gordon * Preliminary English Test, former name of the

B1 Preliminary B1 Preliminary, previously known as Cambridge English: Preliminary and the Preliminary English Test (PET), is an English language examination provided by Cambridge Assessment English, one of the examinations in the Cambridge English Qualificatio ...

, an examination of English proficiency provided by Cambridge English *

Psychometric Entrance Test The Psychometric Entrance Test (PET) – commonly known in Hebrew as "''ha-Psikhometri''" (The Psychometric) – is a standardized test that serves as an entrance exam for institutions of higher education in Israel. The PET covers three areas: qu ...

, an Israeli standardized university entrance exam

Transport

Petts Wood railway station Petts Wood railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line, serving Petts Wood in the London Borough of Bromley, south-eastern Greater London. It is down the line from London Charing Cross and is situated between and stations. It is in T ...

, London, England (National Rail station code)

Other uses

Pierre Elliott Trudeau Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000) was a Canadian politician, statesman, and lawyer who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984. Between his no ...

(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 The Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) is an electoral tribunal that decides election protests involving the election of the President of the Philippines and Vice President of the Philippines. It is composed of justices of the Supreme Court of ...

, an electoral tribunal in the Philippines * ''Pet.'', abbreviation of

Petitioner A petitioner is a person who pleads with governmental institution for a legal remedy or a redress of grievances, through use of a petition. In the courts The petitioner may seek a legal remedy if the state or another private person has acted unl ...

, a person who pleads with governmental institution for a legal remedy or a redress of grievances * ''Pet.'', abbreviation for reports by

Richard Peters (reporter) Richard Peters, Jr. (August 17, 1780 – May 2, 1848) was an American attorney and the fourth reporter of decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from 1828 to 1843. Early life Richard Peters, Jr. was born in Belmont, Pen ...

(1780–1848), reporter of decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States