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English
Etymology
The name of the computer (sense 4) derives from the 1970s pet rock fad; the acronym was invented afterwards.
Noun
PET (countable and uncountable, plural PETs)
- (uncountable, organic chemistry) Initialism of polyethylene terephthalate.
- Coordinate terms: Dacron, Terylene, PE, PEF, PETG
- (countable, medicine) Acronym of positron emission tomography.
- (countable, genetics) Acronym of paired-end tag.
- (countable, historical, computing, backronym) Acronym of personal electronic transactor, a line of personal computers produced by Commodore International.
2014, Nick Montfort et al., 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 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.
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Proper noun
PET
- (Canadian politics) Initialism of Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
2016 November 20, “New books put Trudeaumania in fresh perspective”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 2017-08-07:But Wright takes a rather contrarian position about the impact of emotionally charged Trudeaumania on PET’s astonishing political rise in 1968.
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Noun
PET m (plural PETs)
- PET (“polyethylene terephthalate”); Abbreviation of polyéthylène téréphtalate.